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When Students Protest – The Anti-War Movement Of The 1960s And 70s – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link at the Past Daily site and listen to a discussion from 1970 about the state of Student protests.

Five Thirty In Session – 1991 – Past Daily Soundbooth

Five Thirty – in session for Mark Goodier – March 31, 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – Five Thirty to start the week. Another in that seemingly endless series of bands that came and went in a flash, left an album or two and a handful of singles – stuck

March, 1962 – Algeria Independence – Past Daily Reference Room

March 22, 1962 – NBC Radio – Algeria: Troubled Freedom – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 1962 signaled independence for the former French colony of Algeria. It was painfully long and slow process, getting to this point – it was a conflict that spread to the streets of Paris

2 By Jim Noir – 2012 – Past Daily Nights At The Round Table

Jim Noir – Cheese Of Jim’s Command – Tea -from Jimmy’s Show – 2012 – Townsend Music (UK) – Perennial favorite Jim Noir to end the weekend. I was checking around and I don’t see anything more recent than a 2015 single release, but that doesn’t really mean anything since

Jeanne Landry And Josephte Dufresne Play Music Of Roger Matton – 1955 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone

Roger Matton – Brazilian Dance – Jeanne Landry – Josephte Dufresne, pianos – CBC Studio recording 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Over to Quebec this week for a sampling of the work by French – Canadian composer Roger Matton. Roger Matton OC (18 May 1929 – 7 June

Arthur Blythe Quartet – Live in Berlin – 1980 – Past Daily Downbeat

Click on the link at the Past Daily site and give a listen to The Arthur Blythe Quartet, playing live at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1980.

You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – It’s May 1970 – In Four Weeks You’ll Be Free . . . Sort Of.

KHJ – Humble Harve – Wednesday, May 27, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s May and you have less than a month before you’re free. According to your teachers and your guidance counsellors you are going to graduate. After June you won’t have to get out of bed

This Heat – In Session 1977 – Past Daily Soundbooth

This Heat – In Session for John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – Recorded October 26, 1977 – Broadcast November 17,1977 – BBC Radio 1 – Special thanks to reader/listener Ed Cruwys for reminding me of some of the bands who were overlooked, and underappreciated during the late 70s/early 80s