March 27, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 27, 1978 – The 16-week old Coal Miners strike was looking to be at an end – for the most part. Most of the Soft Coal Miners went back to work, their nationwide walkout at
The (English) Beat – In Session for John Peel – November 5, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – The sad news continues this week with word that Ranking Roger, singer for The Beat (or English Beat outside the UK) and founding member of General Public passed away earlier today at
March 26, 1966 – ABC Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 26, 1966 – A day loaded with trouble – The flight of Gemini 8 was hampered by what was later discovered to be a short circuit in the Number 8 Thruster of the spacecraft. Astronauts Neil
Scott Walker – In Conversation with Jarvis Cocker – BBC 6 Music – July 23, 2017 – BBC Radio 6 – With the news of the passing of Scott Walker, a significant contributor to the experimental and forever reaching nature of contemporary music has left – and has left a
Howard Hanson and The Eastman-Rochester Symphony w/Jacques Gordon, Violin – Festival Of American Music – 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Howard Hanson leads the Eastman-Rochester Symphony with Jacques Gordon as violin soloist in the broadcast portion of the final concert from the 1946 Festival Of American Music. Beginning
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra and Gramercy Five – Spotlight Bands – September 19, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Artie Shaw this weekend. Widely regarded as “one of jazz’s finest clarinetists”, Shaw led one of the United States’ most popular big bands in the late 1930s through the
