– CBS World News Roundup – May 5, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Not an earth-shattering news day, this May 5th in 2000 (let’s face it; not every day in history is earth-shattering), but one with some good news going for it. It was revealed the Unemployment rate was
Justin Vernon of Bon Iver – Trying to stay low-key, but . . . Bon Iver for this Monday Lunch – recorded live at the Northside Festival in Aarhus, Denmark on June 8, 2019 and preserved for posterity by Denmark Radio DR P3. Bon Iver was founded in 2006 by singer-songwriter Justin
Taking a break from Europe this weekend and looking at Mid-Century American music as composed and interpreted by Morton Gould in this series of short piano works, recorded for Decca Records in New York on October 9, 1940 and issued in a 78 rpm set. To many aficionados of American
– The Alec Wilder Octet – Walking Home In Spring – March 30, 1939 – Brunswick Records Taking it down several notches tonight. One of the most widely admired, but little known American Music composers of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Alec Wilder was very difficult to pin down as
Low – Pioneers of Slowcore. Low in concert tonight – recorded at All Tomorrow’s Parties and introduced by none other than John Peel and broadcast by The BBC on April 19, 2002. Low had a major impact on American Indie since their inception in 1993 until disbanding after the untimely
American Forum Of The Air – July 9, 1950 – Do We Need A New Foreign Policy? – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. The endless debate on U.S. Foreign Policy, the political wrangling and the blind-sidedness – it would seem to be our legacy going back to the beginning of
– CBS Radio – The Hidden Revolution: The 20 hour Work Week with Edward R. Murrow – Dec. 17, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Lately, you hear people moaning about the bucolic days of the 1950s, wishing they were back – morals and all. In the 1950s, many people
Back to some basic, no-frills American Rock n’ Roll this afternoon. In 1977, Mushroom Records ran a full-page advertisement showing the bare-shouldered Wilson sisters (as on the Dreamboat Annie album cover) with the suggestive caption, “It was only our first time!” In an interview that appeared in the July 28,
The Credit Crisis – CBS Reports – March, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Nothing new with the realization that the Credit industry is the second oldest profession on our planet. Offering the chance to get something you can’t afford has been with us since we became a consumer-oriented society.
John Parsons Beach: Orleans Alley – NBC Studio Orchestra – Henri Nosco, cond. – Jan. 20, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Music of John Parsons Beach this weekend. No idea who he is? Well, according to Nicholas Slonimsky’s Seventh Edition of Baker’s Biographica Dictionary Of Musicians, John Parsons
