August 5, 1962 – Marilyn Monroe: Fame Is Fickle
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Category: Americana
Preventive Detention – Internment – America’s Little Stain On History – 1970. Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Kup’s Show – Interview/Discussion – Internment/Preventive Detention In 1942. Broadcast July 29, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With public outcry growing in recent weeks over the detention, internment and forced separation of families and children over immigration, and the surprise checkpoints and raids carried out by ICE; all
Pushing An Unpopular Cause, Making An Unconvincing Case – Dean Rusk – July 30, 1967
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Henri Nosco -The NBC Studio Orchestra – Music Of Charles Vardell – 1943 – Past Daily Weekend
– Charles Vardell – Joe Clark Steps Out – NBC Studio Orchestra – Henri Nosco, cond. – October 28, 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Lesser known American Composers this week – the music of Charles Vardell, as played by the NBC Studio Orchestra, conducted by Henri Nosco as
What Inventions Have Benefitted Mankind Most? 1954 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
– NBC Radio – Conversation: What Inventions Have Benefitted Mankind Most? – Nov. 6, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seventy-two years ago there was no such thing as the Internet. Computers were massive and it never occurred to anyone in a million years that such a device could be
Alex Chilton -Chicago – 1987 – Past Daily Lunchroom
Alex Chilton – Went from Top 40 AM Hits to Seminal influence – and Rock was forever grateful. Once again, tapping into the AJC Project at Archive.org for this stunning concert by Alex Chilton, recorded at Cabaret Metro in Chicago on December 19, 1987. I have often wondered who, of
July 15, 1964 – GOP Convention: View From The Cow Palace – Sliding Off The Rails.
CBS-TV audio coverage of 1964 Republican Convention – July 15, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day, at least in the U.S., had primarily to do with the Republican Convention and the selection of Barry Goldwater as Presidential Candidate. Long thought to be the turning point
Coleman Hawkins – Live From Birdland – 1952 – Past Daily Downbeat
Coleman Hawkins Quintet – live At Birdland – September 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Legends in Jazz this weekend – Coleman Hawkins, one of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: “there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was
America Celebrates – The Bicentennial – July 4, 1976
– Bicentennial coverage – CBS Radio – July 4, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Hard to imagine it was 50 years ago today that America celebrated its Bicentennial. July 4, 1976 was a nationwide, non-stop party – and no matter who you were or where you were, you
July 2, 1965 – Lyndon Johnson Addresses The National Education Association
Before he entered politics, it should be noted Lyndon Johnson was a School Teacher. And even though Schools had changed considerably from when he last pored over student essays, the crisis in education in the U.S. had spiraled out of control. Coupled with the issue of School desegregation, there was