Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Voices and Events – Week ending August 14, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection And sometimes Summer isn’t necessarily violent or simmering or even contentious. This particular August 14th, 65 years ago was just that; a typical August
Click on the link here for Audio Player – That Petrol Emotion – In session for John Peel – December 16, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 Edgy 80s tonight with a session by That Petrol Emotion, recorded for the John Peel Program at the BBC on December 16, 1986. Formed
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Lauren Bacall – Interviewed by Jeremy Issacs – March 20, 1995 – BBC I will admit, this has been a terrible week. We’ve lost two icons in as many days. Though one was sudden and shocking, the other is the end
Click on this link to make a donation: http://igg.me/p/881521/x/6847927 I thought I would give you a progress report on how we’re doing so far. As I’m sure you all know by now, we’re in the midst of fundraising to keep the preservation and restoration of thousands of hours of historic
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBC Radio – Call of the Miracle Mile Race – 1954 Commonwealth Games – August 7, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Sixty years ago it was billed as The Miracle Mile. The 1954 Commonwealth Games featured a showdown between the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Skip Weshner’s Accent On Sound – Live From The Village Gate – May 23, 1959 – KRHM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A few months ago I ran a Skip Weshner Accent On Sound Folk Program live from One Sheridan Square.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Stone Roses – live In Blackpool – Dec. 8, 1989 – BBC 6 Music Continuing our romp through Madchester with a concert by Stone Roses, during that pivotal and meteoric period, recorded live in concert from Blackpool on December 8, 1989.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Swervedriver – In Session for John Peel – September 3, 1990 – BBC Radio 1 I’ve been meaning to run this for months. Swervedriver were one of those bands (along with Ride), who introduced a Wall of Guitars into Shoegaze in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – James – In session for John Peel – October 19, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 Although they first arrived on the scene as an Alternative/Post-punk band, James evolved into one of the cornerstone bands of the Madchester movement in the late
Click on the link here for Audio Player – James Mason Interview – Martha Deane Program – WOR-AM – January 24, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Continuing the occasional series of Icon Interviews. This week it’s the legendary James Mason, who had a long and very distinguished career in
