– NBC Radio News – August 27, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As preparations were finishing up, the 3rd Fleet was moving into Segami Bay and the first of several contingents of U.S. troops were preparing to land on Japanese shores, starting the beginning of the first full
– News from BBC World Service – Polish Radio – German Radio – August 23-24, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It was huge, impossible news for August 23rd in 1939. And shock waves reverberated all over the world for days after. The Pact, negotiated since June of 1939,
– Claude Champagne – String Quartet Number 1 – The Montreal String Quartet – CBC Transcription Service – circa 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Back to Canada this week for a performance of the 1st String Quartet by Montreal-born Composer/violinist/pianist/professor Claude Champagne. Recorded circa 1955 by the Montreal
– The Camel Caravan With Benny Goodman And His Orchestra – Sept.6, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As long as I’ve been posting on the weekend Downbeat page, I’ve never gotten around to posting anything from the acknowledged Big Band Era of the 1930s – certainly no live
– Tame Impala – Live At Splendour In The Grass Festival – July 31, 2010 – Triple J Radio – Australia – At the risk of sounding shamelessly self-indulgent this weekend; it’s my Birthday. And so, to give myself permission to run anything I want to, I’ve decided to run
– ABC Radio National – Life Matters Program – Interview with Simon Goodman – August 6, 2015 – ABC Radio National, Australia – During the final months of World War 2 in Europe, and as Allied armies pushed closer and closer to Berlin, the larger, more sinister and horrifying picture
– Continuous News Reports – August 21, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When a coup, staged by hardliners, threatened to topple the Soviet Government of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, the world held its collective breath as news unfolded by the hour. While news reports kept coming in
– CBS Radio News – August 21, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 21, 1979 – dog days of Summer, no matter when. On this dog day of Summer in 1979, President Carter was taking a working vacation on a riverboat down the Mississippi, stopping along the way
– The (English) Beat – In Session for John Peel – September 3, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – More from Two-Tone Records this week, by way of The Beat, or The (English) Beat, if you were in the U.S. – the reason for the (English) insertion was to clear
– Edward R. Murrow News with Don Hollenbeck – August 20, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day had an eerie ring of familiarity to it. The subject of influencing policy based on previous employers, the subject of Private enrichment at Public expense, and the “glass
