The Telescopes in Session – 1989 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Click on the link at the Past Daily site and listen to their first session for John Peel from May 16, 1989.
Category: Popular Culture
Yanks In Oz – Bombs On Rhodes – Worries About Tires – Enter: The Draft – March 17, 1942 –
– March 17, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 17, 1942 – War in the Pacific is ramping up. U.S. troops arrive on Australian soil, amid fears an invasion by Japan is imminent. Still, repeated air attacks on Japanese positions are putting a
Blancmange In Session – 1983 – Past Daily Soundbooth
– Blancmange – in session for RTVE – Spain – June 7, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Early pioneers of SynthPop and Alternative Dance, Blancmange tonight. In a session they did for Spanish Radio on June 7, 1983. Formed in 1979, Blancmange were originally a three-piece in the
Kremlin Intrigues: The Name Is Malenkov – Meet The New Boss – March 15, 1953 –
March 15, 1953 – Drew Pearson News – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 15, 1953 – While the world was processing the death of Soviet Premier Stalin, his replacement, Gyorgy Malenkov was quickly and quietly taking the reigns, and not-so-quietly instigating purges within the Party. Rumors
Heads, Hands And Feet – In Session 1972 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Hands And Feet – In Session For John Peel – June 9, 1972 – BBC Radio 1 – A taste of British Country-Rock tonight by way of Heads, Hands and Feet – one of the critically acclaimed, yet short-lived bands of the early 70s Country/Pub-Rock phase. Heads, Hands and Feet
Tim Buckley – Live At The Starwood 1975 – Past Daily Soundbooth
At the risk of turning this week’s evening post into an homage to “those who left too early”, I nonetheless ran across this very rare Tim Buckley club date from May 1975, recorded weeks before his untimely death from a heroin overdose in June. Tim Buckley was an extraordinarily gifted
Lou Reed, Nico, John Cale – Live At Le Bataclan, Paris 1972 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Editors Note: This post was originally written shortly after the terrorist attack on Le Bataclan in Paris in 2015. As a reminder that Le Bataclan in Paris, now the site of infamy and terror was, prior to last week, the site of countless memorable concerts going back decades – too
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. The very public damning of the industry for its lack
The Pretty Things – Live At Golders Green – 1973 – Past Daily Soundbooth
– The Pretty Things – live at Golders Green, London – 1973 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – BBC Radio 1 – The Pretty Things in concert tonight. Lest you think The Rolling Stones can lay claim to being one of the oldest still-performing bands in Rock (60 years!)