Click on the link here for Audio Player – The 1935 Mobilization for Human Needs – October 24, 1935 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Slowly digging out from a devastating depression, America was still a long ways off from prosperity. Cities were still reeling under the effects of unemployment and
Click on the link here for audio Player – William Green – Address to 58th Convention of AF of L – October 3, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The state of Labor in America in 1938 was in turmoil to a degree. Strikes at Auto plants and Mines turned
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Radio Berlin/Mutual Broadcasting – Adolf Hitler Addresses Reichstag + Raymond Gram Swing Commentary – October 6, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the outbreak of War in Europe a little over a month old, 75 years ago – all ears
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR: Piano Jazz w/Marian McPartland – featuring Gerald Wilson – June 19, 2006 – NPR It was very sad news, earlier this week, hearing of the passing of one of the true giants of the Jazz World. Gerald Wilson was a
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Son House – In Session for John Peel – July 6, 1970 – BBC Radio 1 When the resurgence in Rural Blues swept the U.S.in the early 1960s, one of the most revered, yet almost totally unknown outside a small coterie
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Georgie Auld – Blue and Sentimental – Coral Records – 1953 Not that I got out of my way to collect them, but I’ve been running across quite a number of discs by musicians who were, in one way or another,
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Alec Wilder Octet – Walking Home In Spring – March 30, 1939 – Brunswick Records Taking it down several notches tonight. One of the most widely admired, but little known American Music composers of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Alec
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Jerry Mengo et son Orchestre – Un Ciel Bleu en Hiver – 1953 – Ducretet-Thomson Records Continuing our archeological dig through piles of shellac this weekend, and probably next week too. Tonight it’s a taste of what French Jazz and Big
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Benny Morton’s All-Stars – My Old Flame – Blue Notes Records – 1939 Since the Soundbooth is about playing only records, there’s no restriction on just when those records were made or what kind of music they have on them. And
Click on the link here for Audio Player – WNET – Free Time: Black Cinema – Nov. 9, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In 1971 a new genre in Cinema exploded on the scene, and quickly became part of our Popular Culture. It was cinema written by, produced by,
