
Category: Arts & Music


It’s November 22, 1966 – You Live In Los Angeles – The City Has Fallen In Love With Its Own Voice – You Blame Talk Radio – Talk Radio Laughs
KABC – Dick Whittington Show – November 22, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The phenomenon wasn’t entirely new, and it wasn’t completely the property of Los Angeles in the 1960s, but it suddenly seemed like every radio station that wasn’t playing Top-40 was hosting Talk Radio. Disc Jockeys



It’s December 1, 1978 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – You Just Moved – It’s Your First Day In A New School – You Are Radioactive
KROQ – Fraser Smith Show – December 1, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Face it; just about everybody you know, including you, has either been the “new kid in school” or knows someone who was at least once the “new kid”. It is historically the single most excruciating

Feeder – Live At Reading 2002 – Past Daily Soundbooth: Festival Edition
Feeder – Live At Reading 2002 – BBC Radio 1 – Feeder to end the week. A band with an extraordinary 40 singles 10 albums, 12 compilations and four eps since their inception in 1996. They were considered by many to be on one of the UK’s most successful chart


Seiji Ozawa And The Boston Symphony In Music Of Tchaikovsky, Griffes And Bartok – 1976 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Seiji Ozawa and The Boston Symphony – In Concert – February 3, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – More historic concerts this week. The Boston Symphony under their then Music Director Seiji Ozawa in a concert recorded on February 3, 1976. A good one – Starting with Tchaikovksy’s Symphony

Cinerama – In Session – 2001 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Cinerama – In session for John Peel – recorded May 13, 2001 – broadcast May 24, 2001 – BBC Radio 1 – Cinerama in session for John Peel tonight – their seventh of an astonishing ten sessions the band did for Peel throughout the late 90s/early 000’s. Fronted by David

Roy Hargrove (And Strings) – Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival – 2016 – Past Daily Downbeat – Memorial Edition (RIP Roy Hargrove – 1969-2018)
Roy Hargrove Quintet w/The Detroit Festival Orchestra – Live at The Detroit Jazz Festival – September 3, 2016 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – More sad news this week. In a year that has already seen unfathomable loss of so many iconic artists, we can add the name Roy Hargrove