Pay TV vs. Free TV – Sylvester “Pat” Weaver – Vincent Wasilewski – Commonwealth Club of Calif. May 15, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A debate featuring former NBC President Sylvester “Pat” Weaver and Vincent Wasilewski, President of the National Association of Broadcasters. The subject was Cable Television,
Morcheeba in concert tonight – recorded at The Rio Loco Festival in Toulouse only a few days ago (June 11th) by the ever-present and eternally grateful Radio France International. With eleven albums to their credit, Morcheeba should be a household name just based on sheer numbers alone. They’ve been around
June 12, 1981 – CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak + Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 12, 1981 – America‘s Great National Pastime took a vacation this day. With talks between Players and Team Owners breaking down one last time, a strike was called and the
James Taylor – ushering in the age of quiet introspection. Taking a very mellow turn for lunch for Hump-Day – James Taylor in concert at Fillmore East on January 25, 1971. Sometimes changes arrive in seemingly abstract times, but in the long run prove to be exactly what was needed.
– CBS World News Roundup – June 10, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this June 10th in 1994 was hopeful, but not optimistic if you were looking for a quick solution to the Health Care problem. The Kennedy Healthcare bill passed an initial hurdle; clearing the Senate
Lunch with The Go-Go’s – recorded and broadcast on August 31, 1981 from Emerald City in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Needless to say, the 1980s were a scramble to figure out what was going on in Music – genres were falling out of the woodwork and the 70s were still
– Governor Jerry Brown – address to State – June 8, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. With the infamous Proposition 13 passed – this June 8th in 1978 was about the scramble to address the issue, the emergency measures to be implemented before the law was to go into
– NBC Radio – New World: Comic Books – July 1, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the 50s galloped on, and as the Cold War brought with it a certain fear, paranoia and fatalist look at life, our entertainment started taking on that general tone of dissatisfaction, rebellion
Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing; forever imbedded in our minds. Dire Straits to end the work-week -recorded no October 19, 1978 at Stadtshouwburg, Rotterdam, and broadcast by VPRO, Hilversum. In 1978, with everything else going on; music heading in the direction of loud, snotty and beer-soaked, along comes a
Robert Kennedy Assassination – KFWB/Group W – Los Angeles 7:45-8:45 am – June 5, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 5, 1968 – 58 years ago today. Most people woke up on this morning to the horrifying news that Robert Kennedy had been shot shortly after delivering a
