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6 Days left – the contributions are slowly trickling in. Keep it going. I can’t thank those of you enough who have pitched in, either contributing or telling your friends, for your help and kindness. It’s hard; maintaining a website, preserving and restoring thousands of hours of audio every day, while trying...
– Lucille Dumont aux Rhythms de Paris – Nov. 2, 1951 – Radio Canada – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Lucille Dumont tonight – an iconic Pop-Star and early TV personality from Quebec in the 1950s and who had her own radio show in 1951 before heading to TV where...
– 5 by Francoise Hardy – 1962-1971 – Disques Vogue – Virgin Records – Continuing our suspension of regular posts this weekend (at least for today, Saturday), here are 5 songs by the legendary Francoise Hardy – one of the most recognizable and influential voices in French Pop music. A...
– 4 by The Baronets – from the Unissued Vee-Jay album – Recorded March 13, 1965 – The well-known and very popular Quebec vocal group Les Baronets (featuring future Celine Dion husband Renè Angèlil) were looking to expand their horizons. It was 1965 and the group had already gotten...
– 4 By Ike & Tina Turner – From the lp Don’t Play Me Cheap – Sue Records LP-2005 – Diving through vinyl this weekend. Coming up with early Ike & Tina Turner. During their stint with Sue Records, from the 1963 album Don’t Play Me Cheap – 4 tracks...
– Champ Records Sessions – June 29, 1962 – Leon Russell: It Takes A Drink In The Mornin’ – Jackie Dunham: So Long Baby – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – No end of mysteries when it comes to boxes of tapes – this one showed up in my archive...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Amen,Amen,Amen – The Swan Silvertones – Archives Alive/Rock Beat Records – 2015 Without question, one of the greatest Gospel groups from those halcyon years of the 1950s and 60s were The Swan Silvertones. At a time when...
. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – Antonio Zambujo – In concert at La Cigale, Paris – January 23, 2015 – Radio France-FIP. Further evidence of just how amazing the world of Music is, and how vast, is by running across this concert from just...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Bessie Banks – Go Now + It Sounds Like My Baby – 1964, 1963 When I ran the BBC Session of the Moody Blues debut hit Go Now last night, I wanted to slip the original version...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player: Toru Takemitsu: Woman In The Dunes (soundtrack) – JVC-Japan Known largely on this side of the Pacific as a composer of the Avant-Garde, Toru Takemitsu was a huge fan of cinema and was very much in demand by...
