Category: 1981
If You Were A Teenager, And You Lived In New Orleans, And It Was May 1981, This Is What It Sounded Like
WNNR-AM – The Black Pope – May 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Just a hunch, but I would bet even money that, if you were born and raised in New Orleans and they did a DNA test, they would find musical notes mixed up in there. Music is
January 26, 1981 – Former Hostages Arrive At West Point – Decompression Amid A Carnival Atmosphere
January 26, 1981 – CBS World News Roundup + Hourly News + Newsbreak – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 26, 1981 – With celebrations continuing for the freed 52 American hostages, along with the carnival-like atmosphere that went along with their homecoming, the decompression and readjustment from 444 days
January 24, 1981 – Decompression Time – Release Of American Hostages: Trauma And Questions
January 24, 1981 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 24, 1981 – The American hostages, held for 444 days at the Embassy in Tehran had been released some days earlier and flown to Wiesbaden West Germany, before continuing on to home in the U.S.
Art Pepper – Live in Paris – 1981 – Past Daily Downbeat
Click on the link at the Past Daily website and listen to the complete Art Pepper concert, recorded in Paris in May of 1981.
Dolores O’Riordan – The Cranberries In Session – 1991 – Past Daily Soundbooth: Memorial Edition
The Cranberries (Dolores O’Riordan) In Session for Dave Fanning – RTE 2FM, Dublin – March 9, 1991 – RTE 2FM Dublin – With the sad and shocking news of the passing of Dolores O’Riordan at the way-too-early age of 46 I am sure, like a lot of people, it’s taking
You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – It’s 1981 -You Have A Band – You Have Plans
KROQ – Jed The Fish – July 2, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – L.A. in the 80s. Not as laid back as it was in the 70s. L.A. in the 80s means business – it’s all happening and it’s all happening at once. Madame Wong’s now has Madame
Girls At Our Best! In Session – 1981 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Girls At Our Best! In session for John Peel – Recorded February 17, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – Girls At Our Best! One of many short-lived bands of the early 80s. During a time when the playing field was open and genres were springing up everywhere. Punk was in
Restricted Code In Session – 1981 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Restricted Code – in Session for John Peel – March 10, 1981 – broadcast March 17, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – A band which may not register with many American listeners (unless you had your ears to the ground and were a regular listener to John Peel, somehow in
Hunters & Collectors In Concert 1981 – Past Daily Backstage Weekend
Hunters & Collectors – Live at The Jump Club, Melbourne – July 1981 – Band soundboard – Hunters & Collectors this week. One of the more adventuresome bands coming out of Australian in the 1980s. A band whose influences upfront were Can and German producer Conny Plank, they captured a