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A little support goes a long way: Become a Patron! December 9, 1941 – Two days after the events at Pearl Harbor and our plunge into World War 2. News bulletins flashed every few seconds – the networks went 24 hours – new as well as fears took front and...
Christopher Meineke: Railroad March – James M. Deems – Telegraph Quick-Step – NBC Symphony – Dr. Frank Black – February 4, 1943 -Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Names most people don’t know anymore – one; Dr. Frank Black, was something of a multi-tasker. He was Music Director...
December 3, 1944 – Even for a Sunday in 1944, this was a busy day on all war fronts. American B-29’s staged raids over Tokyo, targeting the Nakajima Aircraft factory, and by all accounts the raid was successful. Japanese radio reported damage was “light”, but reports from military reconnaissance said...
Claude Hopkins – Dorothy Donegan – Stuff Smith Trio – Jubilee Program – October 16, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – We got bills – we got pressure – we got patrons: Become a Patron! Back over to some Big Band of the 1940s this week. This one from...
Kurt Weil – Down In The Valley – Original NBC-TV Cast – 1950 – RCA-Victor album LM-16 – Become a Patron! A 29 minute dose of 20th century American Folk-Drama as envisioned by a razor-sharp German Expressionist. Kurt Weil, who gained world-wide recognition with Three-Penny Opera produced a very healthy...
Become a Patron! If you came along after 1986 you might have missed all the brouhaha associated with the introduction of the Compact Disc to the consumer market and how it was going to affect and effectively wipe out the lp market, for time anyway. But go back a couple...
Patrons get perks – lots of them: Become a Patron! November 15, 1942 – News from Algiers on this day, and there was a lot of it. A little background: Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Anglo–American invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. It was...
Surprises await you: Become a Patron! In the early 1970s, when National Public Radio was getting off the ground, getting its feet wet and finding its way, it was an exciting adventure in the possibilities of what Educational Radio could achieve. The promise, though reached, was never sustained and has...
Become a Patron! In 1948 work was underway to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the legendary Great Exhibition of 1851, which was to have taken place in 1951. But in 1948, the idea of celebrating seemed remote in many ways – celebrating England of 1851 seemed more the celebration of...
Subscribers can download for free: Become a Patron! News for this October 29 in 1949 had much to do with the comings and goings from Conference Room 5 at the United Nations temporary headquarters at Lake Success, New York. Topic for discussion was Atomic Energy and what was going to...
