Kirsten Flagstad, John McCormack, Frank Black and many more – RCA Magic Key Program – Dec, 27, 1936 – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. More Magic Key this week. This one, a broadcast from December 27, 1936 features the usual all-star cast – primarily artists for RCA
Phyllis Diller – chats with Art Linkletter – Art Linkletter’s House Party – CBS Radio – Jan. 19, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. When you start diving into Popular Culture of the 1960s, the part that doesn’t focus on the most prominent or identifiable names associated with Youth Culture,
Dizzy Gillespie Big Band – Live In Vienna – 70th Birthday Concert – July 17, 1987 – ORF-Radio, Austria – Dizzy Gillespie this weekend. In a concert given on his 70th birthday at Arkadenhof Rathuas in Vienna on July 17, 1987 and recorded for posterity by Austrian Radio. And here’s
KOBY-AM, San Francisco – Jim Wayne Show – August, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When a phenomenon goes from being a wishful fad to a hardcore lifestyle, little things begin to happen. And if you’re at that coming-of-age place – that phenomenon becomes part of your DNA; not
January 18, 1999 – NewsHour – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 18, 1999 – Another day where innocents are caught in the middle and factions are settling old scores. This time it was the town of Recuk in Kosovo where unarmed ethnic Albanians were rounded
January 11, 1997 – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 11, 1997 – The Blizzard of ’97. When much of the nation was nailed by an arctic blast – bearing the brunt of it seemed to be the upper Midwest, where temperatures dipped
January 10, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 10, 1995 – As the rest of the world spun quietly off on its own, SoCal was in the midst of getting soaked by a relentless series of storms, slamming in from the Pacific. Contrary
