
Category: Radio


Wes Montgomery In Session With The NDR Big Band, Hamburg – 1965 -Past Daily Downbeat
Wes Montgomery with The NDR Big Band – In Session – April 28, 1965 – North German Radio, Hamburg – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Wes Montgomery this weekend. One of the seminal figures in Jazz guitar, who pioneered the genre of Smooth Jazz and did a lot to introduce


Apollinaires In Session – 1982 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Apollinaires – in session for John Peel – rec. July 7, 1982 – broadcast, August 25, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – Apollinaires to end the week. From their first (and only) session for John Peel, recorded on July 7, 1982 and broadcast August 25 and rebroadcast on September 21,

Why Do People Vote The Way They Do? – 1948 – Past Daily Reference Room
Chicago University Roundtable – Why Do People Vote The Way They Do? – October 10, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The American voter – probably the largest slice of humanity that is the most unpredictable on earth. Despite every effort at perfecting the poll, every technological advance, every

January 4, 1995 – First Day Of A GOP Congress – The Growing Anti-Yeltsin Movement – Another Shooting in The Name Of “Right To Life”.
January 4, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 4, 1995 – Big day on Capitol Hill. First day of a new Congress – this time it was the GOP in charge, the first time in 40 years. Newly minted House Speaker Newt Gingrich

José Miguel Rodilla And Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia Play Music Of Turina And Moreno-Buendia -2009- Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Miguel José Rodilla and The Orquesta Sinfonica de la Region Murcia – In Concert – Dec. 4, 2009 – Radio Nacional España – Into the realm of the reasonably unfamiliar (at least to some of us) this week. A concert broadcast by Radio Nacional de España on December 4, 2009

New Years Day 2019 – Past Daily State Of The Website – An Occasional Progress Report.
Past Daily: State Of The Website – New Years Day 2019 A new year and the end to a frustrating and exhausting old one. Past Daily heads into our 7th trip around the sun, with no conceivable end in sight and with a lot of plans on the horizon. It’s

Charles Munch And The Boston Symphony Rehearse Music Of Roussel And Debussy – 1951 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Charles Munch Conducts The Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – October 28, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Charles Munch rehearsing the BSO in another one of the weekly broadcasts NBC radio did in the late 1940s and early 1950s with this orchestra. Narrated by veteran broadcaster Ben Grauer, this

December 28, 1977 – It Happened In Ismailia – The Ongoing Israeli-Egyptian Peace Talks – Galveston’s Grain Elevator Problem.
December 28, 1977 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 28, 1977 – News from Ismailia, the latest in a series of seemingly endless talks and negotiations over a Peace settlement between the Israelis and Egyptians. Discussions on this day were about Menachem Begin’s 26-point