– Smashing Pumpkins – In Session for John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – Sept. 8, 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – I know a lot of people who consider the music scene during the late 1980s/early 1990s as one of the most exciting and versatile since the 1960s. There
– Edward R. Murrow and The News with Larry Lasueur – July 31, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – News for this day, 65 years ago, was about the ongoing war in Korea and the delicate maneuvering taking place at the United Nations at their temporary headquarters at Lake
– BBC World Service – London Column – July 25, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the war was going through its final phase in the Pacific, the War in Europe was now over and the herculean task of putting the broken pieces back together had begun. London
– Everything But The Girl – In Session For John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – August 18, 1984 – BBC Radio 1 – Since they’ve been under the radar and relatively inactive since 2000, listening to this session from Everything But The Girl reminded me what a really good
– CBS Radio News On The Hour – July 29, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Well, it was a Saturday after all, that July 29th in 2000. Convention season was off and running, as Republicans headed to Philadelphia in the first of two political conventions to pick a
– Meet The Press – Roy Innes-Floyd McKissick – July 14, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1968 has often been referred to as “The Incredible Year”. Incredible in a lot of ways; not least that America managed to survive what was probably one of the most violent years
– Kodaline – In Concert at T In The Park 2015 – July 10, 2015 – BBC Radio 6 – At the risk of sounding smug, I predicted in 2012 that Kodaline were going to be a hot item in the years to come. I said that when they
– The World Tonight – July 27, 1979 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1979 had much to do with the Carter Cabinet shakeup, and the ongoing replacements heading to Washington. Latest and last in his choices for appointments were former
– Dexter Gordon Quartet – Live At Megleass Højskole – August 5, 1967 – Radio Denmark – Dexter Gordon in concert this week – along with Kenny Drew, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Albert “Tootie” Heath, playing a gig at Meglass Højskole to an audience of enthralled College Jazz students. It
– ABC Radio – Voices In The Headlines – Week Ending July 24, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The phrase “Long, Hot Summer” was destined to become a yearly occurrence by 1966. Since 1964, when Harlem in New York erupted, Summer came to mean a time of
