Category Americana

Korean War

Korean War: “Get It Over By Christmas” -A World Askew – The Week Ending November 28, 1950

– NBC Radio: Voices And Events – News for Week of November 28, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – No picnic, this week in November of 1950. Starting off with an out-of-control bus on a mountain road in Colorado…

Coney Island

Island Of Dreams – Coney Island In The 70s – 1979 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

– NPR Special Program – Island of Dreams – Coney Island – Nov. 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Iconic place, Coney Island. Long history. A place where seemingly half the world showed up on a Summer weekend to…

Gian-Carlo Menotti

A Menotti Premier 1952 – L.A. Phil. , Wallenstein – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone

– Gian-Carlo Menotti – The Apocalypse – West Coast Premier – L.A. Philharmonic, Alfred Wallenstein – Nov. 13, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Gian-Carlo Menotti this week. One of the major forces in American classical Music during the…

Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie On The Radio – 1940 – Past Daily Nighttime Gallimaufry

– CBS Radio – Back Where I Come From – August 19, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection.- In an attempt to broaden the musical tastes of mainstream America, CBS Radio in 1940 experimented with the idea of presenting Folk…

Chester Himes

Chester Himes Talks About Writing – 1972 – Past Daily: “Talking About . . .’

– Chester Himes – Interviewed on Soul! – March 15, 1972 – NET-TV – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Chester Himes – one of the great American writers of the 20th century, was one of many artists of color who…

Election '62

Election ’62: Mid-Term Postmortem – November 7, 1962

– Lowell Thomas And The News – Nov. 7, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This is the week for election postmortems, it seems. This day, November 7th, was a day-after in the 1962 Mid-term election cycle. Not as…

Cold War

Cold War Wages Of Paranoia – Can Fallout Shelters Save Us? – 1961 – Past Daily Reference Room

– The-OPen-Mind-Can-Fallout-Shelters-Save-Us-November-1961.mp3″>The Open Mind – Can Fallout Shelters Save Us? – November, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The 1950s and early 1960s. A time of anxiety, dread, fear and paranoia. Fear of a nuclear war – one that…