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A little goes a very long way: Become a Patron! Starting sometime after World War 2 and with the advent of recording tape, the idea of radio documentaries took off in popularity. Prior to this it was a gargantuan effort, dragging disc recording equipment off to a location and getting...
Supporting what we do here is really easy: Become a Patron! February 4, 1996 – Busy news day in the world and a sad news day for the entertainment world. Starting with news that gunshots were heard in Guatemala earlier in the day. An assassination attempt at the newly inaugurated...
Roland Manuel – Isabelle and Pantelon – excerpts – Soloists, chorus and Orchestra of French Radio – Georges Delerue, cond. – 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One thin Dollar goes a long way: Become a Patron! Music of Roland Manuel this weekend. Hardly a household name and one...
Your support is needed, I’m serious:Become a Patron! January 1951. Still the month to look back at the accomplishments of the previous year. This radio discussion series called “You And . . .” focused on different aspects of our society in 1951; where we were going, what were we doing...
NBC Radio – Monitor – 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm – June 25, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Considering America had gone through a World War, gone through Korea and was smack in the middle of a Cold War with The Soviet Union, our predilection for fun had...
Clifford Brown – Max Roach Quintet – Live at The Continental Restaurant – WNOR-AM Broadcast – June 18, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary Clifford Brown this weekend. In what very well may have been his last known broadcast before an untimely death from a car accident...
Become a Patron! Live Jazz from the 1950’s this weekend with a double bill, live from Birdland in New York City on September 9,1952. Not together, though sharing the same stage, Slim Gaillard and Arthur Prysock. Starting off the set is the ultra-smoothe and mellow Arthur Prysock, who does several...
New York AM Radio Dial Hopping – March, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A buck a month is all we ask: Become a Patron! You finally got it. After months of hounding, hinting and placing copies of magazines with Webcor ads all around your apartment, your parents finally...
Become a Patron! News for this week, ending on January 7th in 1950 had as much to do with Foreign Policy as it did with Capitol Hill. At the beginning of the week, a bombshell was dropped from London in the form of Britain’s official recognition of Red China. It...
Encore Time – Jim Hawthorne, Major J. Andrew White – KNX Midnight-1:00 am – June 3, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Before 24 hour news cycles, ’round the clock music and talk, radio was a sort of “uncharted waters” after midnight. If you were one...
