
Category: Radio



Lauritz Melchior – Eva Le Gallienne – RCA Magic Key – 1938 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Lauritz Melchior – Eva Le Gallienne – Frank Black With The NBC Orchestra – RCA Magic Key – April 17, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even though you could consider it a one-hour commercial for RCA Victor records, phonographs and everything else RCA was involved in at the

It’s December 1, 1978 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – You Just Moved – It’s Your First Day In A New School – You Are Radioactive
KROQ – Fraser Smith Show – December 1, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Face it; just about everybody you know, including you, has either been the “new kid in school” or knows someone who was at least once the “new kid”. It is historically the single most excruciating

Papercuts – In Session – 2009 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Papercuts – In session for Marc Riley – August 18, 2009 – BBC 6 Music – San Francisco Indie/Baroque from Papercuts tonight. From a session recorded at BBC 6 Music for the Marc Riley program on August 18, 2009. Papercuts is the musical project of California singer-songwriter and producer Jason

The Yummy Fur – In Session – 1998 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Yummy Fur – in session for John Peel – Feb. 22, 1998 – broadcast April 7, 1998 – BBC Radio 1 – The Yummy Fur in session for John Peel from 1998 tonight. The Yummy Fur were an indie rock band from Glasgow, formed in 1992, and disbanded 1999. The

It’s October 1967 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – Wolfman Jack Is Your Way Of Life . . .Or Not.
XERB – Mexico/Hollywood – Wolfman Jack – October 17, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As much as you hated to admit it, just about everybody you knew listened to Wolfman Jack at least once a week. You know, because almost every day you would hear someone doing their

November 1, 1964 – Election Around The Corner – The Pundits – The Tea Leaves – The Coin Toss
November 1, 1964 – James Farley – Leonard Hall on Meet The Press – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 1, 1964 – the Election of 1964 was days away, in fact a little over 2. At stake were the political fortunes of Republican Barry Goldwater and his running mate

October 29, 1961 – Dr. Glenn Seaborg Has A Word Or Two About Nuclear Energy – Meet The Press – Past Daily Reference Room
October 29, 1961 – Meet The Press: Glenn T. Seaborg – Atomic Energy Commission – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – For those of you who don’t know, Glenn Seaborg was a highly influential chemist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was also a huge advocate for the

It’s 1963 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In St. Louis – You Keep Thinking About The Future
WIL – Danny Dark – January 4, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1963. Scary times, loads of uncertainty. You almost had the end of the world a few months earlier – the Cuban Missile crisis had you and everyone you knew wondering; Would the future be as scary