Jerry Lewis – Interview with Terry Gross – NPR: Fresh Air – October 25, 2005 – National Public Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Jerry Lewis is gone. Most people have come to know him as the “guy on the Muscular Dystrophy Telethons”. Still others remember the long career
Charles Lloyd Quartet – live in Stockholm – April 29, 1966 – Sveriges Radio Charles Lloyd this weekend. One of the first Jazz artists to have a million selling album, his Forest Flower became a staple in most student record collections and on most FM Underground stations. He was considered
Brian Auger and The Trinity with Julie Driscoll – Live in Paris – ORTF-Radio Studios – April 1968 – ORTF/RFI – Brian Auger and The Trinity with Julie Driscoll tonight. A live in-studio appearance in Paris for ORTF (RFI in France now), recorded in April of 1968. My first encounter
Kelsey Jones – Suite For Flute and Strings – Montreal String Quartet w/Mario Duschénes, Flute and Nathalie Clair, contrabasse – 1954 – CBC Studio recording – CBC Transcription Service – Contemporary music from Canada this week, from American-born/Canadian naturalized composer, harpsichordist, organist, pianist and teacher Kelsey Jones – his Suite
Glen Campbell – Capitol Country Night at The Bowl – Hollywood Bowl – Sept. 7, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the sad, but sadly anticipated news that music legend Glen Campbell left us today, the rush to post obituaries, post remembrances and pay tributes has been slightly
General Maxwell Taylor – NBC-Monitor: Meet The Press – August 8, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – General Maxwell Taylor, returning to the U.S. after spending a year as our Ambassador to South Vietnam went before the panel on Meet The Press and told, in no uncertain terms, that
Robert McNamara News Conference – August 6, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara held a news conference on August 6, 1964 to update news media on the rapidly-escalating situation in Vietnam. After the initial incident, and U.S. retaliation, there were no reports of additional
August 4, 1968 – GOP Convention ’68 Preview – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1968 was a year of surprises – nothing was as it seemed. The year started with a protracted, and in fact escalating War in Vietnam; a Tet Offensive. A growing tide against the war
Ernest Chausson – Poème de l’ammour et de la mer – Jean-Christophe Benoit, Bariton – ORTF Chamber Orchestra, André Girard, cond. – ORTF Radio broadcast – 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A familiar name this week; Ernest Chausson has been widely regarded as one of the key French
Miles Davis – Live at L’Olympia, Paris – March 21, 1960 – Radio France – Miles Davis this weekend. One of the most influential and popular Jazz artists of the 20th century, and probably one of the most well documented. Practically every live recording, session outtake or interview has been
