Henry Wallace Has A Word Or Two About America – October 4, 1948
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Category: Past Daily
Mao Tse-tung: Recognition Of Red China And A Steel Strike – October 3, 1949
ABC Radio: Baukhage Talking – news for October 3, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A nervous October day in 1949. News of China – strikes dragging on, news of a creeping paranoia over Communists, news of Capitol Hill gamesmanship. Starting off was news that Associate Justice William O. Douglas
AIDS Comes To Hollywood – Rock Hudson – October 2, 1985
– CBS News Reports and The World Tonight – October 2, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day 38 years ago was sad and sobering. On October 2nd 1985, actor and Hollywood icon Rock Hudson, who only a year before had been diagnosed with AIDS, died
Elvis Costello And The Attractions – Live At Old Waldorf – 1977 – Past Daily Soundbooth.
– Elvis Costello and The Attractions – Live At Old Waldorf – Nov. 15, 1977 – KSAN-FM – Early Elvis Costello. First U.S. tour to coincide with the release of My Aim Is True and the tour that landed him on Saturday Night Live and the incident which banned him
Gil Evans With Jaco Pastorius – Live In Tokyo 1984 – Past Daily Downbeat
– Gil Evans Orchestra with Jaco Pastorius – Live at Under The Sky Festival, Tokyo – July 28, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Gil Evans with the equally legendary Jaco Pastorius, recorded in concert during the Under the Sky Festival in Tokyo on July 28, 1984. For those
New World Order As Viewed From Berlin – September 29, 1940
– September 29, 1940 – Sigrid Schultz reporting from Berlin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 29, 1940 – while the elation over this newly formed Axis was continuing, the war was going on without stop. Bombing raids continued over Britain, and reciprocal raids were still taking place over
104th Congress: Petulant And Prone To Tantrums On Capitol Hill – September 28, 1996
– September 28, 1996 – NPR – Weekend Edition News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 28, 1996 – it was billed as the most contentious Congress in recent history. The 104th Congress was about to hit the history books. Early on this morning, legislators and White House aides
September 27, 1940 – Signing The Axis Pact – Sealing The Fate
September 27, 1940 – In Berlin on this day, Germany, Italy and Japan entered into an agreement by which any of the signatories of the agreement would come to the aid of the other, should that signatory be attacked by any country not actively involved in the war up to
V-2: Mystery Of The Flying Bombs – September 25, 1944
– News Of The World – September 25, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this September 25th in 1944 had much to do with a strange new twist in the War. Flying bombs, coming from somewhere in German North Sea region, were raining destruction over British cities.
Kirsten Flagstad On The Radio – 1938 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
– Kirsten Flagstad – In recital for the Magic Key Program – January 2, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Continuing the occasional series of great Singers, a radio recital performance by the legendary Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad from the RCA Magic Key Program of January 2, 1938. Regarded