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Esquire Fashion Parade Featuring Duke Ellington, Vic Damone – Chu Chu Martinez – March 10, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Aside from a short interview with Duke Ellington, the true curiosity of this program is that it sheds some light on Mens fashion during the Post War years...
Raymond Scott and His orchestra – June 22/24, 1944 – Armed Forces Radio Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Raymond Scott – a name associated with a lot of genres of music, a seemingly never-ending inventor and innovator and an artist whose contributions to music were largely forgotten about...
Mice In Session for Mark Riley – June 3, 1996 – BBC Radio 1 – Mice in session to end the working week. This one, their debut and (I think) their only session for Mark Riley, recorded on June 3, 1996 for BBC Radio 1. Mice (in case you didn’t...
Bad Religion – in session for John Peel – Recorded July 24, 1993 – broadcast September 4 – BBC Radio 1 – Bad Religion tonight. A taste of Los Angeles at the BBC – recorded for John Peel in London on July 24, 1993 and broadcast on BBC Radio 1...
Six By Seven – in session for John Peel – Recorded April 7, 1998 – broadcast May 12, 1998 -BBC Radio 1 – Six By Seven in session for John Peel tonight, their first for him, recorded on April 7, 1998 and broadcast on May 12th. Regarded by many as...
Beatrice Uria-Monzon with Michel Plasson conducting Orchestre National de Lyon – In Concert from Paris – March 6, 2011 – Radio France Musique Over to Paris this week for a special concert featuring the Spanish-born Mezzo-soprano Beatrice Uria-Monzon and the Orchestre National de Lyon led by the legendary Michel Plasson....
February 13, 1941 – Generalissimo Franco – Marshal Petain Summit – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 13, 1941 – With the war escalating in Europe, and the U.S. still reasonably out of it, reports of a meeting between Spanish dictator, Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Vichy French Premier Marshal Petain...
Our Foreign Policy – Proposal For The St. Lawrence Seaway And Power Project – March 9, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The St. Lawrence Seaway, a 189-mile (306-kilometer) stretch of the Seaway between Montreal and Lake Ontario is recognized as one of the most challenging engineering feats in...
February 12, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 12, 2001 – An interesting day for the courts and the Music Business in general. Popular song-file swap service Napster was spared from an immediate shutdown today, but a US appeals court ruled...
The Adventures – In Concert from the BBC Paris Theatre -1988 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – The Adventures in concert to start off the week. The Adventures were a Northern Irish rock band, formed in Belfast in 1984. The band later moved to London where they signed...
