Category: 1950’s
Sarah Vaughan – Live At Zardi’s Jazzland – Hollywood – 1956 – Past Daily Downbeat
– Sarah Vaughan – live at Zardi’s, Hollywood – May 21, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary Sarah Vaughan this weekend. Recorded live for the All-Star Parade Of Bands radio program at Zardi’s in Hollywood on May 21, 1956. With her trio, featuring Jimmy Jones on piano,
Adlai Stevenson Begins His 1956 Presidential Campaign – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Become a subscriber with Patreon: Become a Patron! – Adlai Stevenson – first Campaign speech of 1956 Campaign – Sept. 13, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Adlai Stevenson, probably a name not many remember these days. Former Governor of Illinois who ran for President on the Democratic Party
Paranoia In The Age Of Anxiety – Operation Alert – 1959 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
– Operation Alert 1959 – Conelrad Emergency Broadcast – Gordon Skene Sound Collection If the Cold War period wasn’t frightening enough for the average person, with daily news reports of tensions and takeovers and thinly-veiled threats, there was the extra added bonus of having to deal with the almost constant
View From Tunisia – View From The Bowling Alley – March 18, 1958
Become a Subscriber via Patreon: Become a Patron! – NBC Radio News – Life and The World – March 18, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News on this day in 1958 was something of a mixed bag, at least from mainstream media’s point of view. Word from North
Eisenhower – Republican Convention – 1952 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Become a Patron! As Convention season gets closer (and one can only guess what 2024 will be like), here is a sampler from another Republican Convention – seventy-two years ago – July 11,1952. General Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers the acceptance speech for his party’s nomination on July 20, 1952. Eisenhower
The Solar Flares Of 1956 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
February of 1956 saw one of the most unusual periods of Solar Flare activity in history. The solar flare of 23 February 1956 and the resulting geophysical disturbance ranks as one of the most remarkable solar-terrestrial events of the twentieth century. It sparked many papers and has seldom been equalled.
Statehood – A Hard Sell For Hawaii And Alaska – March 1, 1955
Coffee works and it works real good: – NBC Radio – Listen To Washington: Alaska-Hawaii Statehood Question – March 1, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It was a question on everybody’s minds for a very long time. Ever since Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867, the question
“Don’t Read – LIVE!” – A Word Or Two From Henry Miller – 1977 – Past Daily Evening Gallimaufry
Support the weird and the wonderful: Become a Patron! – NPR: Voices In The Wind – Henry Miller Interview – Oct. 30, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary Writer Henry Miller turned 86 in 1977. To commemorate his birthday, National Public Radio, as part of its series
The 1950 Mid-Term Elections: ‘Bad Officials Are Elected By Good Citizens Who Do not Vote’ – Past Daily Evening Gallimaufry
A huge thank you to all of you who are subscribing: Become a Patron! – CBS Radio: Report To The Nation – 1950 Elections – Nov.9. 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Since we’re a little less than 9 months away from the 2024 Presidential elections, I thought it might