Your Soul Mate – for at least twenty minutes. If you had a dollar for every time . . . You just wanted to meet somebody. You just wanted to meet somebody who “got” you. You just wanted to meet somebody who liked the music you liked. You just wanted
The 1952 Presidential campaign season was in full swing, by this June 26th in 1952. General Eisenhower was courting the Youth Vote while at the same time, appealing to his base, the former veterans of World War 2. Gen. Eisenhower, took a strong party stand in Denver, in an attack
The Kooks in concert for a Friday Lunch – recorded during the Gurten Festival in Berne Switzerland on July 18, 2014 and preserved for posterity by SRF Radio. The Kooks have been around for a bit. Forming in 2004 and going through personnel changes, they’re still at it in 2026,
June 25, 1944 – CBS World News Today – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 25, 1944 – busy day on all battlefronts. Starting with rumors that Cherbourg had fallen to the Allies. German radio reported the loss, while General Eisenhower’s staff were keeping mum until it was a 100%
June 24, 1945 – Reports from Okinawa – Bob Brumby, Mutual Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 24, 1945 – although it was generally acknowledged the Battle of Okinawa was over, it would be weeks before the fighting completely stopped. The Battle of Okinawa was a major battle
– CBS Radio: Time For Reason – Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney talk – June 24, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Someone once remarked that we’ve been in an almost constant state of war and conflict since 1939 – and even then, only marginally peaceful since the months before
– ABC Radio – The Thin Grey Line – June 8, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In 1966 the groundswell of discontent over U.S. involvement in Vietnam and Southeast Asia was increasing in intensity. Questions were raised as to why we were there in the first place. Sure, we
June 23, 1945 – War Telescope – NBC Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 23, 1945 – As VE continued to wear off and the business of getting back to some semblance of normalcy slowly began, the adjustments to a new life and healing the scars from
June 22, 1955 – News On The Hour – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 22, 1955 – News for this day had much to do with the goings on in San Francisco, site of the original meeting of the United Nations in 1945. Ten years later
Back to the archives of Swiss Radio this week for a “Composer conducts” performance by Swiss composer/conductor/educator Albert Jenny in a radio broaadcast of his Serenade For Orchestra from 1962 – recorded at Studio 1 of Basel Radio on March 19, 1963 with Albert Jenny leading the Radio-Orchestra Beromünster. Albert
