Category 1980’s

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Medicare And Mayhem – August 21, 1983

Click on the link here for Audio Player: CBS Radio – Face The Nation + Hourly News – August 21, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A day of stark contrasts from opposite sides of the world, this August 21st…

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August 21, 2013

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Band Of Susans – In Session – 1988 – Nights At The Roundtable

Click on the link here for Audio Player – Band of Susans – in session for John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – October 10, 1988 They had a good ten-year run, going from 1986-1996. One of the premier Noise…

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July 23, 2013

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Intermediate Applied Fingerpointing – Day 3 – July 9, 1987

Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for July 9, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this particular July day in 1987 was focused pretty much on events pertaining to, or…

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July 9, 2013

1980's, Jazz, Past Daily, Radio, Vintage Recordings

Joe Pass – Lee Konitz – Live In Copenhagen 1988 – Past Daily Downbeat

Click here for Audio Player: Joe Pass and Lee Konitz – live in Copenhagen 1988 A couple of Jazz legends this weekend (not that there aren’t Jazz legends here every weekend), by way of Joe Pass and Lee Konitz, recorded…

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June 23, 2013

1980's, Day in history, Donation, Foreign Policy, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Past Daily

Another Day – Another Hijacking Hostage Drama – June 17, 1985

Click on the link here for Audio Player: When hijacking passenger airliners began, somewhere in the early 60s, as the first crazed gunman wandered into a cockpit and screamed “Cuba, Cuba, Cuba!” while waving a pistol, little did…

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June 17, 2013

1980's, BBC, Japan, Nights At The Roundtable, Past Daily, Past Daily Soundbooth

Yellow Magic Orchestra – Live In London -1980 – Past Daily Soundbooth: Mini-Concert Edition

Become a Patron! One of the most popular and influential bands of the Techno era of the 1980s was a trio from Japan known as The Yellow Magic Orchestra, or YMO for short. Having blazed a trail for electro-Pop, J-Pop,…