Category: 1970’s
It’s December 1, 1978 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – You Just Moved – It’s Your First Day In A New School – You Are Radioactive
KROQ – Fraser Smith Show – December 1, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Face it; just about everybody you know, including you, has either been the “new kid in school” or knows someone who was at least once the “new kid”. It is historically the single most excruciating
November 9, 1970 – A Trial Begins – A Tribulation Continues – Nixon And The Hot Potato Called Vietnam
November 9, 1970 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 9, 1970 – President Nixon and the War in Vietnam, and now Cambodia, were taking center stage. On this day, the State of Massachusetts threw a hot potato at the Supreme Court, but the Court in
Seiji Ozawa And The Boston Symphony In Music Of Tchaikovsky, Griffes And Bartok – 1976 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Seiji Ozawa and The Boston Symphony – In Concert – February 3, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – More historic concerts this week. The Boston Symphony under their then Music Director Seiji Ozawa in a concert recorded on February 3, 1976. A good one – Starting with Tchaikovksy’s Symphony
November 6, 1973 – Watergate And The Tale Of Rosemary Woods – The Not-So-Secret-Secret-Tapes
November 6, 1973 – NBC Nightly News (Audio) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 6, 1973 – A year after his re-election, President Nixon was knee-deep in Watergate wreckage. On this particular day, it was about maneuvering of the so-called “Secret Tapes”. Federal Judge John Sirica was closeted with
November 2, 1974 – Rockefeller Confirmation Gets Rocky – Down To The Wire On Mid-Terms
November 2, 1974 – CBS Radio: The Washington Week In Review – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 2, 1974 – With days away from the 1974 Mid-Term elections, politics seemed to be the only thing on peoples minds. Unless you were on Capitol Hill, in which case you were
Claudio Abbado And The Cleveland Orchestra Play Mahler – 1972 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Claudio Abbado – Cleveland Orchestra – Mahler: Symphony No. 6 – Nov. 6, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A historic concert this week (again) – this time it’s the legendary Claudio Abbado guest conducting the Cleveland Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony Number 6 – broadcast on
Caravan – In Concert – 1971 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Caravan In Concert – May 16, 1971 – John Peel Presents – BBC Radio 1 Caravan to end the week. One of the most influential of the Canterbury Sound bands of the late 1960’s, they continue to perform, although there have been several personnel changes over the years, as well
