Anyone who was around during the tumultuous years of the late 60s has some sense of deja-vu with what is currently going on our country now. Although not exactly the same circumstances, the division in actions among the people of America was almost identical to what it is now. Times
– Apollo-Soyuz launch – CBS Radio Special Report – July 15, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Big news, this July 15th 50 years ago. The launch of a U.S. spacecraft and a Soviet spacecraft with the sole intention of linking up in orbit. Apollo-Soyuz as it was known, was
Silo to get Tuesday rolling in a sonically stimulating fashion. Recorded at the famous (and infamous on this particular year, 2000) Roskilde Festival on July 1, 2000 and preserved for posterity by Sveriges Radio P3. For the record, there are several bands named Silo – none of them sound remotely
The 1948 Presidential race was hard fought and hotly contested. Within the ranks of the Democratic Party there was a faction, primarily representing the South, who objected strongly to President Truman’s strong Civil Rights stand. So resentful of the President’s campaign to end racial discrimination in the Armed Forces, end
Strawbs in concert from London. Recorded for BBC Radio 1’s In Concert Series in 1974. Starting off the week on a sad note – founding member and guiding light for Strawbs, Dave Cousins died on July 13th at 85. He had been in poor health since 2021 when he officially
Another rarity from the Swiss Radio archives this weekend. The music of Adolf Brunner – his Partita for Piano and Orchestra from 1939 in this performance by Walter Frey, piano and the Radio Beromümster Orchestra led by Walter Kägi, recorded by Swiss Radio on October 23, 1955. Adolf Brunner; b.
Jan Garbarek this weekend along with his partners in crime, Rainer Brueninghaus on piano, Eberhard Weber on bass, Jan Vasconcelos on percussion and voice and Manu Katché on drums – recorded at La Cigale in Paris on October 27, 1989 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of ECM Records
A dose of Swedish electronica by way of Covenant – recorded live at SAMA in Göteborg on April 1, 2000 for Sveriges Radio P3. A little background on Covenant by way of Sharon Maher’s excellent biography of the band. Here’s an excerpt: Covenant. It’s a name that implies extraordinary commitment,
Ever since grade school you had this thing about exploring – especially the neighborhood and particularly on your bike. You and your trusty Sting-Ray – you’ll have it til you’re 30. Tooling down alleys, looking for cool stuff. Always the dumpsters – always behind stores on Pico. Lots of rotten
The Move this weekend. Recorded in Stockholm for Sveriges Radio on December 15, 1967 Why The Move were not household names on this side of the Atlantic in the 60s is something of a mystery. Their debut U.S. lp, Shazam had all the earmarks of something that would get massive
