Category: 1960’s
It’s November 22, 1966 – You Live In Los Angeles – The City Has Fallen In Love With Its Own Voice – You Blame Talk Radio – Talk Radio Laughs
KABC – Dick Whittington Show – November 22, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The phenomenon wasn’t entirely new, and it wasn’t completely the property of Los Angeles in the 1960s, but it suddenly seemed like every radio station that wasn’t playing Top-40 was hosting Talk Radio. Disc Jockeys
David Bowie – In Session – 1967-1972 – Past Daily Soundbooth
David Bowie – In Session for John Peel – Tracks 1 and 3 (Dec. 24, 1967) – Track 2 – (Jan. 28, 1972) – BBC Radio 1 – David Bowie tonight – excerpts of two sessions, poles apart in style. December 24, 1967 and January 28, 1972. David Bowie was
November 22, 1963 – The Day The World Changed – The JFK Assassination Aftermath
JFK Assassination Reports – November 22, 1963 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 22, 1963. Even though today (2018) is Thanksgiving, and America looks at the collective dinner table amid growing division and confusion, fifty-five years ago this day, America was looking with vacant eyes toward
It’s October 1967 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – Wolfman Jack Is Your Way Of Life . . .Or Not.
XERB – Mexico/Hollywood – Wolfman Jack – October 17, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As much as you hated to admit it, just about everybody you knew listened to Wolfman Jack at least once a week. You know, because almost every day you would hear someone doing their
November 1, 1964 – Election Around The Corner – The Pundits – The Tea Leaves – The Coin Toss
November 1, 1964 – James Farley – Leonard Hall on Meet The Press – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 1, 1964 – the Election of 1964 was days away, in fact a little over 2. At stake were the political fortunes of Republican Barry Goldwater and his running mate
Pink Floyd – 1969 – Live In Birmingham-Manchester – Past Daily Soundbooth
Pink Floyd – Live At Mothers Club, Birmingham – April 24, 1969 – College of Commerce, Manchester – May 2, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Pink Floyd from 1969 tonight. I freely admit, early Pink Floyd is my favorite period of the band. Probably because they were trying
October 29, 1961 – Dr. Glenn Seaborg Has A Word Or Two About Nuclear Energy – Meet The Press – Past Daily Reference Room
October 29, 1961 – Meet The Press: Glenn T. Seaborg – Atomic Energy Commission – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – For those of you who don’t know, Glenn Seaborg was a highly influential chemist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was also a huge advocate for the
It’s 1963 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In St. Louis – You Keep Thinking About The Future
WIL – Danny Dark – January 4, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1963. Scary times, loads of uncertainty. You almost had the end of the world a few months earlier – the Cuban Missile crisis had you and everyone you knew wondering; Would the future be as scary
Georges Migot: Piano Concerto – World Premier – 1964 -Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
George Migot – Piano Concerto – Jacqueline Eymar, Piano – ORTF Symphony, Manuel Rosenthal, cond – June 26, 1964 – ORTF -Gordon Skene Sound Collection World Premiers this weekend. The French Composer/painter/poet/writer Georges Migot (1891-1976) and the premier of his Piano Concerto, completed in 1962 and given its world premier