Suburban Sprawl – NBC Radio: Second Sunday – August 13, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s interesting how things change; how they go from one extreme to the other over time. In this radio documentary, produced in 1972, the issue is how this Suburban Sprawl has negatively impacted
University of Chicago Roundtable – Guilt By Association – March 13, 1949 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Fingers of suspicion, guilt by association – all elements of the era known as The Red Scare. The fear of subversion, the fear that America was going to be
– WCBS News + CBS World News Roundup – July 20, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sixty-one years ago today, we were looking at a Summer awash with gloomy reports, agitated people and uncertain times. After a whirlwind 5-day fact-finding tour of South Vietnam, Defense Secretary McNamara boarded
Ride – In concert at Gothic Theatre, Englewood, Colorado – April 3, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Perennial favorites Ride in concert this weekend. Recorded at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood Colorado on April 3, 1991 and broadcast sometime shortly after. Ride were one of the pivotal bands
– NBC Radio – Conversation: What Inventions Have Benefitted Mankind Most? – Nov. 6, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seventy-two years ago there was no such thing as the Internet. Computers were massive and it never occurred to anyone in a million years that such a device could be
The curse continued. JFK Jr. Death Reports – CBS Radio – July 16-17, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On the evening of July 16, 1999, a Piper Saratoga piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr., with passengers Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren, plunged into the Atlantic ocean
– Recital by Daniel Lebhardt – Louve Museum Concerts – September 25, 2014 – Radio France Musique Over to Paris this week for a concert by the celebrated rising-star Hungarian Pianist Daniel Lebhardt in what the program describes as a “100% French Piano Music Concert” recorded at the Louve
July 14, 1965 – NBC Radio Special Broadcast – Tribute To Adlai Stevenson – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! July 14, 1965 – sixty-one years ago, on July 14, 1965, Former Illinois Governor, two-time Presidential Candidate and United Nations Ambassador to the U.S. Adlai Stevenson collapsed and
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Coleman Hawkins Quintet – live At Birdland – September 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Legends in Jazz this weekend – Coleman Hawkins, one of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: “there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was
