Count Basie and his Orchestra – live at The Blue Note, Chicago – February 8, 1953- Stars In Jazz -NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Count Basie, live at The Blue Note in Chicago and recorded on February 8, 1953 for the Stars In Jazz program over NBC
R. Buckminster Fuller – Ford Hall Forum Lecture – October 1, 1972 – National Public Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – R. Buckminster Fuller, a name which may not ring many bells to some, but who was an innovator, thinker, inventor, philosopher and Renaissance Man. He styled his name
KWST-FM 106 – Raechel Donahue – Dusty Street – November 18, 1980 – Rob Frankel Collection – November 18, 1980 – A week away from Thanksgiving – L.A. is in the midst of burning down this year. Like clockwork, the Santa Ana winds start to blow and L.A. obliges by
Ending up the week with a 1983 concert from Tears For Fears. Recorded by the BBC right around the time of the release of their debut album, The Hurting. They were enormously popular right from the start. Their debut album went platinum – a pattern that would be duplicated, and
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Most people remember Renaissance as the band which had a number of concept albums and hits via the FM-AOR format stations in the late 1970s. Truth of the matter, that was the third incarnation of the band. Renaissance originally began out of the ashes of The Yardbirds, with Keith Relf
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Prior to the emergence of The Beatles, British Pop Music didn’t get nearly the attention it got after The Beatles arrived. Programs like Top Of The Pops, which began just as the British Invasion was getting started, fulfilled the nearly insatiable curiosity kids in the States had for what other
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”53672″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”November 12, 1945 – Sydney Mosely – News and Comment – Mutual Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Perhaps, the world having already been down this road before, it was all too painfully clear that, once the war was over, there would be a
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”53665″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”November 17, 1958 – Afternoon News – WJR-Detroit – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] November 17, 1958 – WJR-AM Detroit, News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 17, 1958 – Cold War tensions topped the news on this day. Russian planes were accused of
