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American Forum – Is Atomic Testing Endangering Your Life? September 1, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Nuclear Testing: Ever since the Atomic Bomb made its debut at the end of World War 2, Politicians and Scientists have been struggling with the potential health hazards associated...
Become a Patron! A panel discussion from Meet The Press on September 15, 1957 with Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus regarding the independence movement that was taking place and the ensuing violence that was erupting on the tiny Island/nation. Here is some background via the Imperial War Museum in Britain on...
Manuel de Falla – Fantasia Baetica- Frank Pelleg, Piano – 1953 -Concert Hall Society release #G-16 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron and enjoy freebies: Become a Patron! Maybe not so rare or underrated, the music of Manuel de Falla, although not a staple in the concert...
Become a Patron! The Cold War – a time of saber rattling, anxiety, fear, posturing, threatening, propaganda, but above all; Marketing. It was a war of ideologies. A war where confrontations were few, tensions were high, but in the end, World War Three never materialized and Earth was spared obliteration...
Patrons can get this for free: Become a Patron! The Hungarian String Quartet, one of the great performing ensembles throughout the 1930s through to the 1970s when the group disbanded, in 1972. The Quartet was originally brought together with Sándor Végh (a pupil of Jenő Hubay and Zoltán Kodály at...
And patrons: Become a Patron! October 1, 1959 was no box of chocolates. Strikes were the big news. First was the ongoing Steel Strike, becoming the longest in history. President Eisenhower ordered everyone back to the bargaining table to keep trying for a resolution. And then, literally overnight, The Longshoremen...
Patrons can download this by for free by subscribing: Become a Patron! Rock n’ Roll history this weekend, in the form of Alan Freed’s Camel Rock n’ Roll Dance Party from CBS Radio on June 9,1956. One of network radio’s few forays into the early days of Rock n’ Roll,...
Subscribers can download this audio for free: Become a Patron! As a hopefully cautious sign of a thaw in East-West relations, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, at the invitation of President Eisenhower, visited the United States for a summit meeting at Camp David to discuss a wide range of topics. Members...
Christian Garros et son Orchestre – Jazz-Danse Nr. 1 – French Columbia Records – EP ESDF – 1218 – EMI/Columbia – France – Subscribers get the proverbial backstage pass: Become a Patron! Pulling records off the shelf tonight, running into sounds of French Big Band from the 1950s. Lest you...
Subscribers get perks: Become a Patron! From the sounds of this radio documentary (and the articles about it written around that time), the juvenile justice system was historically broken, in need of overhaul and deadly. As is evidenced by this 1952 episode of the CBS Radio series The People Act,...
