– ABC Radio Hourly News – 6:00 am – September 10, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day 30 years ago was probably typical of many September 10ths – labor disputes in Detroit, with newspaper workers on Strike and tensions ramping up with Police. On this
Talking Heads – live in Boston 1977 (disputed venue – disputed date – via undisputed FM broadcast) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Talking Heads this afternoon. I realize I’ve been spending a goodly amount of the past several weeks traipsing all over the world, running sessions and concerts from
– News reports and joint Press conference – Bush-Gorbachev Helsinki Conference – Sept. 9, 1990 – As the crisis in the middle east continued to heat up and as the U.S. was continuing to drum up support for an armed confrontation with Iraq and Saddam Hussein, the fourth summit conference
– August 14, 2003 – CBS Special Reports – Network Newscast – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The power went off around 4:10 in the afternoon, that August 14th, twenty-two years ago. Coming up on the second anniversary of the 9/11 attack and the destruction of The World Trade Center,
– Roy Harper -Live at Golders Green Hippodrome – 1974 – BBC Radio 1 – Although Roy Harper is widely recognized as one of the most unique and individual singer-songwriters to come along in many years, and his associations with everyone from Kate Bush to Led Zeppelin to Pink Floyd
– CBS Morning News Roundup – August 6, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – President Truman Announcement of Atomic Bomb drop – Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 – Truman Library-Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 6, 1945 – eighty years ago, the world changed forever. But you wouldn’t
The Civil Rights Movement in America, although simmering since the Reconstruction days after the Civil War was taking center stage, almost one hundred years later. Throughout the 1950s, the movement grew as did the backlash. By the 1960s it was an unstoppable revolution, led by an increasing number of dedicated
– Happy Mondays – live at Le Truc, Lyon France – March 3, 1990 – Radio France International – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A taste of Happy Mondays this morning. In concert from Lyon at Le Truc, recorded by Radio France International on March 3, 1990. One of the
– July 28, 1980 – Frontline Report – CBS World News Roundup – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 28, 1980 – Day 268 for the Americans held hostage in Iran. It was also the day most Iranians woke up to the
July 25, 2001 – While the U.S.this day was focusing on the sleight-of-hand from OPEC, it was in the process of learning a new and potentially devastating word: Oxycontin. OPEC, in an attempt to prop-up falling oil prices, revealed it would cut production by a million barrels a day.The news
