– Wendell Willkie – Acceptance Speech – Republican Convention – June 28, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Wendell Willkie was the 1940 GOP Presidential Candidate. After six ballots, Willkie, who hadn’t actively campaigned for the nomination, emerged as the nominee for the party. Willkie was not a politician
– CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – June 27, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this June 27th, twenty-four years ago was somber and pessimistic on a number of levels. The Global AIDS crisis had gone from bad to worse, with a bleak prognosis that entire
– Tim Burgess – Live At Glastonbury 2013 – BBC 6 Music – As someone who has been a huge fan of The Charlatans since first hearing them in 1990, hearing founding member and lead singer Tim Burgess’ solo career, I’m struck at how intact the energy and eloquent the
– President Truman addresses closing of San Francisco Conference – June 26, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 79 years ago today, on June 26, 1945 there was cause for celebration. A cautious one, because we were still in the middle of the war in the Pacific, but an
– Oasis – Live At Wolverhampton Civic Hall – 1994 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Middle of the week with Oasis, one of those bands who indelibly defined the 1990s, and solidified what became the 2nd British invasion and epitomized what came to be known as Brit-Pop. Starting
– NBC Radio – Bulletin regarding Allied entry into Cherbourg – June 25, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Nineteen days after the initial landings at Normandy, the Allies were still in the midst of battling their way to Paris. Some objectives were easily taken, while others were difficult.
War On Drugs – Live At Coachella 2015 – April 10, 2015 This morning a look back at Week number 1 at Coachella from 2015 – there was a lot going on, and War on Drugs had been described by many who were there as one of the highlights of
– Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Korea – June 24, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Depending on where you were at the time, the events which rapidly spiraled into the Korean War started either on the afternoon of June 24th, or the morning of the 25th in 1950.
By all accounts, June 21, 1978 was a normal newsday. Nothing from Earth-shattering, unless you were living in Salonika. An earthquake struck Salonika Tuesday night (June 20) “with a great noise like the coming of hell,” sending thousands of residents fleeing the city where St. Paul once preached the gospel
Well, now that Festival season is up and rolling, adjusting schedules, setting timers, studying lineups and crossing fingers that the multi-tasking doesn’t overload the computer has become a full-time task. But seriously, it’s worth it. This year promises to be a wall-to-wall feast of great music by old favorites and
