Click on the link here for Audio Player – Jim Hall Trio – Live at The Bourbon Street, Toronto – June 1979 Taking advantage of the relative peace and calm of a holiday weekend by adding a taste of guitar legend Jim Hall to the mix. This one, from a
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – May 2, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection May 2nd in 1979 saw the last full day of campaigning for the Parliamentary elections in Britain. Labour Prime Minister James Callahan and opposition Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher
Click on the link here for Audio Player – KMPC – Geoff Edwards Show – November 27, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Ironically, as I was putting together the previous post on Personality Radio of the 1960s featuring KMPC‘s Dick Whittinghill, I had learned of the sudden death of
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bauhaus – In session at The BBC – March 13, 1982 – BBC6 Music Diving into a band some might find hard to place, but who were influential and very popular during their tenure. Bauhaus originally formed in 1979, known as
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Cars, in concert at Sussex University – 1979 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Some early New Wave tonight, courtesy of The Cars, who were at the forefront in merging guitar-rock with Synth-Pop in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Tonight’s concert
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Ry Cooder – In Concert at the 1979 Cambridge Folk Festival – BBC 6 Music Changing it up just a bit tonight. In the odd event Leonard Bernstein rehearsing the Boston Symphony or Alicia De Larrocha playing Beethoven isn’t quite what
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Jim Hall and Bob Brookmeyer – live at North Sea Jazz Festival – 1979 – AVRO-Hilvserum Another tribute – one of too many this year. Legendary Jazz guitarist Jim Hall passed away earlier this week, leaving yet another empty space that
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup + Hourly News + Newsbreak – December 12, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis in Iran heading into its 6th week, no end was in sight and the road was getting
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Rodney On The Roq – April 8, 1979 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Rodney On The Roq – April 8, 1979 – Part 2 Rodney Bingenheimer has been a cornerstone in the world of
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Los Angeles Philharmonic – Kiril Kondrashin, cond. – Ilana Vered, Piano – July 12, 1979 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player: Los Angeles Philharmonic – Kiril Kondrashin, cond. – Ilana Vered, Piano – July 12, 1979 –
