June 12, 1981 – CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak + Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 12, 1981 – America‘s Great National Pastime took a vacation this day. With talks between Players and Team Owners breaking down one last time, a strike was called and the
Margaret Thatcher – AKA: Attila The Hen. News for this day in 1983 started off in Britain and the election. Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, strongly favored to win a second term, asked for a landslide victory in British national elections today to “banish forever’ extreme left-wing socialism Mrs Thatcher
Fleetwood Mac for lunch this Monday – recorded on the last night of a four night run at Festival Hall in Melbourne, Australia on March 11, 1980 from a road crew soundboard. Another band I have never featured during their later, more wildly successful periods. I will freely admit to
Lunch with The Cars, this Friday Junior – recorded on June 18, 1978 at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland and broadcast by WMMS-FM. The Cars were at the forefront of the merger of 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synthesizer-oriented pop that became popular in the early 1980s. Music critic Robert Palmer of The
The Bangles in the Lunchroom today – recorded at The Syria Mosque Aren in Pittsburgh on December 13, 1986. Hard to imagine it’s been almost 40 years since this concert. The Bangles have always been a quintessential 80s band to me. Probably because my fondest memory of the period was
Modern-English-Peel-Session-Nov.-11-1980 – BBC Radio 1 – Early glimpses of New Wave tonight, by way of Modern English, a band who not only pioneered a new genre in music, but also achieved hit-making cross-over status. Formed in 1979, Modern English were a four-piece from Colchester who bore a strong resemblance to
Lunch with The Alarm this afternoon – recorded at The Marquee Club in London on January 30, 1983. Formed in 1977 as a punk band originally called the Toilets, the Alarm went on to success in the early ‘80s, opening for U2, a band whom they were often compared to,
The Chameleons – In Session for John Peel – June 17, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – Post-Punk/New Wave tonight from The Chameleons (or Chameleons UK), a relatively short-lived but seminal band of the early 80s, in two incarnations, with some six albums and six singles under their belts as
– CBS Radio – Newsmark – Arthur Ashe, Roberston Davies, Sen. John Tower – May 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Two interesting and diverse interviews this weekend, and something political to keep it all strange and current. An episode from the weekly CBS Radio series Newsmark. This one,
– CBS Radio – The World Tonight – May 26, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this May 26th, 46 years ago, was about the upcoming Presidential election in November. The race was on and the candidates were dropping out. Latest to go on this day, was George
