Makes a big difference, honest: Become a Patron! The inimitable Roy Eldridge this weekend in a live gig from Lou Terrasi’s Club on 47th Street in Manhattan and broadcast April 13, 1953 on The Jazz Caravan. The quartet for this broadcast gig joining Roy Eldridge on trumpet includes Dick Wellstood
– NBC Radio – Labor Racketeering Hearings – March 27, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this March 27th in 1957 had much to do with the ongoing Labor Racketeering Hearings going on in Washington. One of the up-and-coming stars of the hearings was a young Chief
Subscribing works wonders: Become a Patron! From a concert given at Salle du Pavillon in Montreux, Switzerland on September 21, 1958 – a performance of Elgar’s Enigma Variations (Variations On An Original Theme) featuring Orchestre National de France under the direction of Pierre Monteux. Since his first visit to London
– 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,
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
– 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
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
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
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.
