– MBS – Martin Dies Address – October 27, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In the years following World War 1, there had been the threat of a takeover or violent revolution in America from one extremist group or another. In the days at the end of World
– Split Enz – Live At Pinkpop 1980 – VPRO, Netherlands – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – By the time 1980 rolled around, Split Enz, who had pioneered the art of wonderful music mixed with a bizarre stage presence, were letting the music speak for itself on stage. And
October 26, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow and The News – Gordon Skene Sound collection – October 26, 1951 – for the first time since suffering defeat in July of 1945, Winston Churchill succeeded in taking back his role as Prime Minister in an election which saw a dramatic turn
October 25, 1957 – NBC World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 25, 1957 – a day of meetings, conflicts and the Space Race. In Washington, President Eisenhower was meeting with UK Prime Minister Harold MacMillan and broadened the conference by bringing in NATO chief Paul-Henri Spaak
– News-for-October-13-1941.mp3″>NBC News Of The World – October 13, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this October 13th in 1941 looked grim, ominous and more and more like America would land in the middle of it almost any day. Reports from Germany claimed huge gains on the
– Joy Division – In Session for John Peel – November 26, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – Considered pioneers of the Post-Punk movement, Joy Division formed in 1976. Initially influenced by The Sex Pistols, founders Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook took a different turn, towards a deeper more introspective
– Jefferson Airplane – Live At Winterland – October 3, 1967 – KSAN-FM – Familiar historic territory tonight. A concert by Jefferson Airplane – on home turf in San Francisco, at the Winterland and recorded for KSAN-FM on October 3, 1967. Jefferson Airplane were a legendary band from a legendary
Editors Note: As I was readying our nightly music post, word came down that the legendary Art Laboe had died. To say he was an instrumental figure in the early R&B and Rock scene in Los Angeles would be an understatement – he held court on the airwaves a remarkable
– KRNO San Bernardino – Morning Show – April 4, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I don’t know about you, but looking at these photos of teenagers from 1955, my immediate thought is “this is what 16 year olds looked like back then?” In a word; yes. Maybe
