[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12070″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 14, 1950 – Voices And Events – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] If it was any indication of how the rest of the decade, let alone year, would go, the week ending January 14, 1950 said a lot about the future
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”19065″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 13, 1982 – CBS Radio Hourly news – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] This January 13th in 1982 was probably not all that far removed from most January 13th’s on the Eastern half of the U.S. The Big Freeze of 1982, as it came
This day in 1978 saw President Jimmy Carter give his first Press Conference of 1978. And by the looks and sounds of it, the political year would have enough drama to go around. Taking center stage was the crisis in Africa between Somalia and Ethiopia, taking place around the Ogaden
Recovering from a bad case of the Flu, President Roosevelt delivered the 1944 State of The Union address from the Oval Office, rather than in a Joint Session of Congress. The war had been going on for 3 years and the tide was turning in the Allies favor. It was
I originally ran this post a few years via my old website, but many readers weren’t happy with the sound quality available at the time. So, as promised, I am running it again with new and improved sound and a new transfer. This is the World Premier performance of the
As long as we’re in dire need of some distractions (or at least alternatives), here’s a trip back to Los Angeles on January 9, 1959, via KFWB and disc jockey Elliot Field. Not quite Top-40, KFWB’s slogan was “full color radio”. But what it was, was a wild stew of
On this January 8th in 1973, we were contemplating what the next four years of a Nixon Administration was going to be like. Having won his second term, Richard Nixon was expected to continue what he set out to do in 1969. This discussion from CBS News, featured Walter Cronkite,
Sadly, only two numbers from this overlooked group, who were one of the mainstays of the British Invasion of 1964, are available tonight. Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas had several huge hits during this time. But like many bands from this era, the changes in society and music in
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”11942″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 7, 1945 – Cedric Foster News and Commentary – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Change the names and the circumstances and this could just as easily be almost any recent year as it was this day in 1957. The Middle East; the perennial powder-keg,
A session from The Searchers, one of the more popular of the British Invasion acts from the first wave in 1964. With a string of hits, The Searchers were frequently in the top 10 of most singles charts. They were the second group, after The Beatles, to secure a hit
