WABC – 12:00 midnight – 1:00 am – November 6, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s Election Night: November 6, 1968. It’s also a school night, but you don’t care. You want to find out who’s going to be President. And even though you can’t vote, because you’re
Yvonne Loriod With The ORTF Chamber Orchestra – Conducted by Serge Baudo – Charles Chaynes: Piano Concerto – 1967 World Premier – ORTF, Paris – Yvonne Loriod is probably best known as the interpreter of the music of Olivier Messiaen. She was one of his most dedicated pupils when she
United Nations Press Conference – Andrei Gromyko – October 13, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Although it was bubbling just under the surface, the soon to be the near-catastrophic Cuban Missile Crisis wasn’t on the front page of newspapers or the lead-story on newscasts on this day. It
Discussion: A failure of U.S. Propaganda Abroad – Open Mind – 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1960 was considered by many at the time to be a strange year. We were going through our ritual of selecting candidates for President, while at the same time, absorbed in debates
For Audio Files: KPOL – Noon-1:00 pm – August 7, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Picture this – it’s coming to the end of Summer – you are hovering somewhere between 15 and 16. Your mom drags you into a Dentist office on Wilshire for your yearly
Charles Lloyd Quartet this weekend, live in Copenhagen and recorded by Danish Radio on October 30, 1966. You could call this Charles Lloyd’s All-Star Quartet, because it featured Keith Jarrett on piano, Jack DeJohnette on drums and Cecil McBee on bass; all of whom would go on to pivotal and
KFWB–KRLA–KHJ – various other stations during an LBJ Address -July 27, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s July 27, 1967. You’re sitting at home and you’re dial-hopping. You have a short attention span. Could be you’re bored out of your skull or it could be all those pills
The Pretty Things – In Session at The BBC – 1965/1967 – BBC Radio 1 – The Pretty Things were, if you remember, part of that initial wave of British Invasion bands which hit these shores in 1964/1965. They were, without a doubt, one of the rawest, most primal and
Sonny Rollins Quartet – live at The Village Gate, New York – July 28, 1962 (Third set). Perennial favorite Sonny Rollins this weekend. From the same live date which became part of the legendary Our Man In Jazz release for RCA-Victor. This is from the third set of the
