Category Popular Culture

A Vast Wasteland Revisited – Television And The FCC In 1974 – Past Daily Reference Room

– NPR: Options – The FCC – January 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1961 then-FCC Commissioner Newton Minow took the broadcast industry to task for offering what he called “A vast Wasteland” of inane and pointless programming.…

X (photo: Gary Leonard)

X – In Concert 1983 – Past Daily Backstage Pass

X in concert this weekend. A live broadcast from My Father’s Place in Roslyn New York on November 12, 1983. X came to epitomize the L.A. music scene in the late 1970s/early 1980s and they were one of the most…

The Kinks

The Kinks – In Session 1967 – Past Daily Soundbooth

– The Kinks – in session for Top Gear – 1967 – BBC Radio 1 – The Kinks – variously described as either overlooked and underrated or one of the most influential bands that ever came out of Britain in…

February 10, 1992 - Iowa Caucuses

Campaign ’92 – Iowa Caucuses – President Harkin? – February 10, 1992

– February 10, 1992 – Campaign ’92 – The World Tonight – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 10, 1992 – Today was the day of the much-anticipated Iowa Caucuses for this election year. Although it came…

Terry Reid - Unsung Hero

Terry Reid – In Session 1969 – Past Daily Soundbooth

– Terry Reid – In Session for Beat Club – Dec. 31, 1969 – RBB Berlin – Terry Reid tonight. Probably more well known by fans as “the man who turned down Led Zeppelin” than for the actual artist himself,…