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João Gilberto – Live At Umbria Jazz Festival 1996 – Recorded July 21, 1996 – RAI Radio – João Gilberto (1931-2019) – With the sad news on the passing of one of the most legendary and pioneering figures in Brazilian music, João Gilberto, at the age of 88, left a...
Radiohead – In Concert At Best Kept Secret – 2017 – June 18, 2017 – VPRO, Hilversum Holland – Just a reminder . . . Radiohead in concert at Best Kept Secret Festival in 2017, and recorded by the venerable VPRO (Dutch Radio Network) on June 18, 2017. A little...
July 5, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow and the News with Don Hollenbeck – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Only takes a second: July 5, 1951 – The Korean War – truce talks pending, logistics hammered out and business as usual. All that, and life on Capitol Hill. On the...
Cast In Concert – 1996 – BBC Radio In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – Cast in Concert tonight. One of the bands considered highly influential in the Brit-Pop movement during the early 90s. Cast formed in Liverpool in 1992 by John Power (vocals, guitar) and Peter Wilkinson (backing...
July 4, 1952 – KNX – News And The Hawthorne Show – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you don’t mind . . .: July 4, 1952 – Here’s a glimpse of Los Angeles as you may no doubt might have heard if you were on your way home from...
KADS – Summer 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you don’t mind: Life in L.A. had a few drawbacks in the 1960s. A: being the first kid on your block to buy a foreign car with an FM radio in 1966 and B: driving around L.A. with the...
The Cure – in concert at Rock Werchter, Belgium – June 28, 2019 – RTBF Before you read, we gotta ask: The Cure in concert at Rock Werchter, just one day ahead of their much talked about Glastonbury appearance. Since most everyone has heard the Glasto show, I suspected Rock...
July 2-5, 1956 – KRKD/KNX/KHJ/KFI – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you can help out, it would be appreciated: Become a Patron! Since we’re in our first week of July, and it is, for all intents and purposes a week with a holiday smack in the middle, it only...
July 2, 2004 – CBS Radio News – BBC Radio 4 News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 2, 2004 – Word from Los Angeles that the legendary Marlon Brando had died early in the morning sent shock waves throughout the entertainment world. Long considered one of the greatest...
July 1, 2000 – CBS Radio News on The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 1, 2000 – Busy news day for a holiday week. News that legendary comic actor Walter Matthau had died in Los Angeles earlier that morning. Matthau often referred to himself as ‘The Ukrainian...
