Th’ Faith Healers – in session for John Peel – March 24, 1991 – broadcast, April 27, 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – Th’Faith Healers to end the week. The more I comb through albums and sessions from the 90s, the more it becomes glowingly apparent it was a decade
5 Red Caps – No Fish Today – Gennett Records – Rec. August 2, 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Taking a slight detour tonight and jumping into a slice of shellac via The 5 Red Caps and their 1943 classic “No Fish Today”. The 5 Red Caps were
Joe Cocker – Mad Dogs & Englishmen – opening night at The Fillmore – March 27, 1970 – Band soundboard – The inimitable Joe Cocker tonight. The band and the tour that put Joe on the Musical map and made Leon Russell a household name, not to mention a cast
Ethel Hubler – The National Voice – Bring Back Prohibition – circa 1935 -Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Prohibition. In case you didn’t know, there was a time in the 20th century when it was illegal to buy alcohol or consume it in public. It was an Amendment to the
The Lucys – in session for John Peel – March 3, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – The Lucys in session for John Peel to end the week. Not that I’ve been purposely focusing on bands that had a brief flourish and then vanished, but truths to tell, there’s a
May 31, 1987 – ABC World News This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 31, 1987 – the last day of a perplexing month in 1987, and the last haywire week of May, 30 years ago. A week you needed a scorecard and interpreter to figure out. Starting
The Undertones – In Concert from The Paris Theatre – April 19, 1980 – John Peel – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – The Undertones tonight. From a concert given at The Paris Theatre in April 19, 1980 mc’d by John Peel and recorded by BBC Radio 1 for their
Connee Boswell – Booglie-Wooglie Piggy – unknown band – NBC Transcription – 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Diving into the antiquities this weekend. Pulling up an unreleased aircheck recording of a song not recorded commercially by Connee Boswell. Initially performing as The Boswell Sisters, Connee and her siblings
KMPC – Robert W. Morgan – 8-9:00 am – August 23, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Mornings in L.A. – traffic jams, accidents, construction, lanes closed, crime scenes. Always been that way, only more so over the years. As L.A. spreads out, and stories of The Promised Land
The Revillos – in session for John Peel – April 29, 1981 – broadcast May 13, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – The Revillos tonight. Formerly The Rezillos, but through a proviso that, to get out of their contract, Sire Records stipulated they couldn’t use the name Rezillos. And so
