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Principe Kalender Plays Principe Kalender -1. La Muerte del Rusiñor 2. El Cisne y La Rosa 3. El Prodigio de las Campanasde Simbirsk 4. Impromptu en Mi Menor – Odeon Records, Argentina – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Patrons/subscribers can download for free (hint,hint): Become a Patron! A rarity as...
Patrons get perks – join up and find out: Become a Patron! News for this September 27th in 1938 was grim. The crisis in Munich was rapidly coming to a boil and it seemed at the time inevitable that war would break out. British Prime Minister Chamberlain, exhausted from the...
Subscribers: Become a Patron! The Crisis of 1938 – the dispute between Germany and Czechoslovakia over land claims by the Germans marked a significant change in what was going on in the world and how it was being received. First, it represented the introduction of Shuttle Diplomacy. As was mentioned...
Subscribers get a special deal: Become a Patron! Seventeen days into the start of the War in Europe, news of the day was filled with reports of attacks, advances, retreats, threats, addresses, assertions, denials, and casualties. Since the German-Russian alliance, Poland was being assaulted on two fronts. Hitler had earlier...
Subscribers can download this for free (hint-hint) – Become a Patron! September 16-17, 1938 – As the world teetered on the brink of war, Diplomacy was being tested to the limit as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain shuttled back and forth between Number 10 Downing Street and Berchtesgaden with Adolf...
Become a Patron! Dorothy Thompson – a name that may not ring a lot of bells, certainly with anyone born after the World War 2 years. But Dorothy Thompson was a pioneering journalist and broadcaster who made a name for herself during a period of time when most journalists were...
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra – CBS Radio – Camel Caravan – November 18, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Benny Goodman for this Holiday weekend. 80 years ago this was the state of Popular Music in America. Big Band Swing was in its heyday and...
August 29, 1939 – Watching the skies and with last minute and last ditch efforts to avoid war, tensions between the Axis powers and the Allies grew more strained by the hour. British Envoy Sir Neville Henderson, stretching shuttle diplomacy to new vistas, was arriving in Berlin to receive a...
Paris Inn – Downtown Los Angeles – April 14, 1937 – KNX Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! To everyone who lives in L.A. and who complains about the current state of nightlife here, often bemoaning how it was much better between 1990 and 2000 than...
Benny Goodman – Camel Caravan program – February 14, 1939 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Benny Goodman and a dose of Swing this weekend. Listening to this broadcast, made some 80 years ago, you wonder what the status of Popular music was during...
