Category 1940’s

Serge Koussevitzky And The Boston Symphony Rehearse The Music Of Bruckner – 1949 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone

Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor – rehearse Bruckner: Symphony Nr. 7 – April 18, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Continuing the series of Boston Symphony rehearsal broadcasts. This one features the Boston Symphony under their then-music Director Serge Koussevitzky…

August 13, 1940 – Marshal Pétain – State Of A Nation Occupied – France In 1940

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August 12-13, 1945 – Waiting On Tokyo – Waiting On The White House – Pins And Needles And Business As Usual –

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August 6, 1947 – Howard Hughes On Capitol Hill –

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Stalin

August 3, 1948 – ‘A Lump Of Butter At The Head Of The Stairs’ – The Mysterious Comrade Stalin.

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July 29, 1948 – A Campaign Address By Henry Wallace – Election 1948 – Past Daily Reference Room

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A Night At The Redondo Barn – Redondo Beach, California – 1948 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

KXLA – Redondo Beach Barn Program – Nov. 27, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Fans of the West Coast, and specifically Southern California, may get a kick out of this slice of Popular Culture from the 1940s. By all…