Category: Americana
The Deep River Boys In Session – 1939 Past Daily Nights At The Round Table
The Deep River Boys – In Session for Lang-Worth Transcription Service -circa 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something different to end the weekend; a series of radio recordings made by The Deep River Boys for the Lang-Worth Transcription Company, circa 1939. The Deep River Boys left a legacy
Music Of George W. Chadwick – Howard Hanson And The Eastman-Rochester Symphony – 1939 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
George W. Chadwick – Jubilee – Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Symphony – From Victor Set M-608 – 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – George W. Chadwick this weekend. Continuing with more selections from the landmark American Music For Orchestra set of 78 rpm discs (M-608) for RCA-Victor, featuring The Eastman-Rochester
A Word With Duke Ellington And Esquire: Well-Dressed Man For 1947 – Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronilces
Esquire Fashion Parade Featuring Duke Ellington, Vic Damone – Chu Chu Martinez – March 10, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Aside from a short interview with Duke Ellington, the true curiosity of this program is that it sheds some light on Mens fashion during the Post War years
Music Of John Knowles Paine – Howard Hanson – Eastman-Rochester Orchestra – 1938 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
John Knowles Paine – Overture to Oedipus Tyrannus – Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson – from the album American Music For Orchestra – RCA Victor -M-608 – Recorded circa 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Taking a small side-step from our usual broadcasts this Sunday, this one comes
February 5, 1996 – A Peacekeeper Dies In Bosnia – Cold Snap Goes After Florida Citrus – Medicare In Trouble
February 5, 1996 -CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 5, 1996 – A busy news day with contrasts. The body of Sgt. Donald Dugan was heading back to Ohio this day, the first U.S. Peacekeeper to be killed in Bosnia. Dugan, who was killed over
Dizzy Gillespie – 70th Birthday Concert – Vienna – 1987 – Past Daily Downbeat
Dizzy Gillespie Big Band – Live In Vienna – 70th Birthday Concert – July 17, 1987 – ORF-Radio, Austria – Dizzy Gillespie this weekend. In a concert given on his 70th birthday at Arkadenhof Rathuas in Vienna on July 17, 1987 and recorded for posterity by Austrian Radio. And here’s
It’s 1957 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In San Francisco – Nothing Ever Happens In Your Town – But Top 40 Is Going To Change All That – Things Are Looking Up.
KOBY-AM, San Francisco – Jim Wayne Show – August, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When a phenomenon goes from being a wishful fad to a hardcore lifestyle, little things begin to happen. And if you’re at that coming-of-age place – that phenomenon becomes part of your DNA; not