State of Education – Franco-American relations – Listen To Washington – February 15, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1955 we were in the middle of what became known as the Post-War Baby Boom. Kids born after 1945 were either approaching school age or were well into elementary
Walther Geiser – practitioner of late Romanticism. Back to the Swiss Radio Archives this week for a performance featuring composer Walther Geiser conducting his own work. Fantasie For Orchestra number 2, performed with the Basle Symphony, led by the composer in this radio recording from October 17, 1946. After finishing
A city sleeps but the lights stay on. People often wonder if radio in the 1940s and 1950s was anything like Television during that time. If you stayed up late enough and were groggily staring at your TV, you would invariably see a Test pattern, an announcer reciting the script
– Dean Acheson address – November 21, 1959 (unknown location) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who served under President Truman from 1949-1953 had the onerous task of keeping the world reasonably sane during what became the height of the Cold War. Weathering the Korean
The Cold War was spreading everywhere. An unsettled feeling was spreading over the world in 1950. The Cold War was ramping up and bringing reminders of a previous war, a war that ended a little over five years earlier – a war that was still leaving its affects. A war
Robert Oubussier (L) – Ernest Ansermet (R) Back to Switzerland this weekend for another rarity. This time it’s the music of Robert Oboussier – his Introitus for Orchestra written in 1946 and performed here in this radio recording featuring the Suisse Romand Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Ansermet and recorded in
KCBS-San Francisco – Lookin”em Over – Sports Program – November 1952, Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Football season – in 1952 it wasn’t too much different than Football seasons before or since. East-West rivalries. USC-UCLA rivalries. The state of Sports in 1952 – looking back at baseball. And drugs were
You remember. She didn’t dislike you. But she didn’t like you either. Most people in their right minds would look at you two and think you were her little brother. She was half a head taller than you – she was two years older than you – she came from
November 6, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow And The News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 6, 1951 – General Eisenhower raised more than a few eyebrows when he arrived in Washington and then quickly left, heading back to France. President Truman said there was only one reason for
November 5, 1958 – NBC Radio News On The Hour – President Eisenhower’s Press Conference – Gordon Skene Sound Collection –November 5, 1958 – Sixty-seven years ago this day, it was a Wednesday and it was the morning after. For some, it was a prediction that the Democrats would re-take
