
Category: Pop Music


It’s 1981 – You Live In San Francisco – You’re A Teenager – The 70s Are Definitely Over. Past Daily Pop Chronicles
KFRC – Rick Shaw Show – Fall 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The 70s are over and MTV is just getting started. Your radio is more lively than usual. Disco has drifted off into the Sunset and Springsteen is the must-listen-to artist now. You never really got into

Dick Dale In Session – 2002 – (RIP: Dick Dale – 1937- 2019) Past Daily Soundbooth: Tribute Edition
Dick Dale – in session for John Peel – August 28, 2002 – aired September 28, 2002 – BBC Radio 1 – And now it’s Dick Dale. His passing over the weekend has left many people stunned; another gaping hole in our Pop Culture and another vestige of Rock n’



It’s 1978 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – You’re Perplexed – But BMR Knows The Score – Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles
KMET – B. Mitchel Reed – January 2, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s January 2nd and it’s 1978 – New Year’s Happened and you had a blast. You went to every party you knew about and some you didn’t know about, but crashed anyway. You were on

Classix Nouveaux – In Concert -1982 -Past Daily – Soundbooth
Classix Neauveaux – live at Paris Theatre in London – 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Classix Neauveaux to end the week. A name which may not ring a lot of bells even with fans of the New Romantic period of the 1980s, but a band which could claim

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

Spandau Ballet – Madrid – 1981 – Past Daily Lunchroom
Spandau Ballet in concert from Madrid this week – Recorded by Radio Nacional España on July 12, 1981. Spandau Ballet formed in Islington, London, in 1979. Emerging from new wave, they became one of the most successful groups of the New Romantic era of British pop, and were influenced

It’s 1972 – You Live In L.A. – You Go To College – Your College Has A Radio Station – You Dream Of Free Records And Concert Tickets
KUSC – Air-Bag with Jay Cee – September 13, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – College Radio – it’s slick, highly produced with considerable thought going into focus groups marketing and raising money. That’s the way it is now. But in the 1950s and 1960s College Radio was background