Joe Cocker – Mad Dogs & Englishmen – opening night at The Fillmore – March 27, 1970 – Band soundboard – The inimitable Joe Cocker tonight. The band and the tour that put Joe on the Musical map and made Leon Russell a household name, not to mention a cast
June 6, 1976 – The World This Week – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 6, 1976, a Sunday in 1976 which capped off a week of tragedies, intrigues and scandals. Starting off with news of the Teton Dam collapse in Idaho, causing mass flooding and at
Thor Heyerdahl -Lecture given at the Stockholm Conference On The Environment 1972 – CBC Transcription Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – To those of you who may not be familiar, Thor Heyerdahl was an adventurer and Ethnographer, whose studies of the Ocean, ancient cultures and anthropology stimulated considerable interest
The Swell Maps – In session for John Peel – March 18, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – The Swell Maps tonight. A band that got started in 1972, yet really didn’t gel until 1977. They had been influenced by the likes of T. Rex and Krautrock and were, by
President Nixon Press Conference -Houston, Texas – March 19, 1974 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As support for Richard Nixon continued to fall apart, even his staunchest allies were calling for his resignation. Shortly before this press conference, delivered in Houston Texas at the annual convention
Archibald Cox Firing – CBS Radio – Washington Week In Review – October 20, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Archibald Cox, Attorney General in the Nixon Administration during the Watergate era. Archibald Cox was the Special Prosecutor, investigating the Watergate scandal and had subpoenaed President Nixon to supply
President Richard Nixon – Address regarding Judiciary Committee Subpoena – April 29, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Richard Nixon – increasingly the focus on the investigation over the Watergate break-in at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters, Nixon was now being subpoenaed for additional tapes and information about the
schis April 4, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 4, 1978 – A day where the situation in Lebanon and the Middle East took a minor backseat to the situation at the Academy Awards and the Oscars the night before. Beginning with news of the
James McCord on Face The Nation – June 3, 1973 – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – James McCord, one of the many figures involved in the Watergate break-in and subsequent coverup. A former CIA agent, who also worked for the FBI, he was an electronics expert and
Magazine in session for John Peel – May 8, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – Magazine tonight. Their third session for John Peel, recorded at the BBC on May 8, 1979. One of the seminal bands of the early New Wave movement, they were founded and fronted by ex-Buzzcocks founder
