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
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
Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs – Joachim von Ribbentrop – Address from Danzig -Berlin Radio – October 24, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 24, 1939 – a little more than a month since the War in Europe got started and Nazi Germany was flushed with victories. On
George Migot – Piano Concerto – Jacqueline Eymar, Piano – ORTF Symphony, Manuel Rosenthal, cond – June 26, 1964 – ORTF -Gordon Skene Sound Collection World Premiers this weekend. The French Composer/painter/poet/writer Georges Migot (1891-1976) and the premier of his Piano Concerto, completed in 1962 and given its world premier
Gene Vincent, Johnny Burnette, Otis Williams And The Charms, Sam “The Man” Taylor and his Orch. Alan Freed – CBS Radio: Camel Rock n’ Roll Dance Party – August 7, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As Rock n’ Roll made the breakthrough, from Race Music and Midnight Disc-jockey
Caravan In Concert – May 16, 1971 – John Peel Presents – BBC Radio 1 Caravan to end the week. One of the most influential of the Canterbury Sound bands of the late 1960’s, they continue to perform, although there have been several personnel changes over the years, as well
Dr. Clark Kerr – CBS Radio: Face The Nation – February 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Berkeley in the 1960s. More than just the subject for documentaries, books and essays, Berkeley was ground zero on the West Coast for the sweeping protests that helped define the 1960s, came
October 18, 1990 – CBS World news Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 18, 1990 – A day of scandals and war-fever. However, staring off the day with some good news – The Labor Department announced that consumer prices had rises 8.10% in September, for an annual 6.6%
