– Jimmy Smith Trio – Live in Paris – Salle Pleyel – December 1, 1969 – RFI-FIP – The Legendary Jimmy Smith this week. From a concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, and recorded on December 1, 1969, The Jimmy Smith Trio featuring Charlie Crosby and drums and Eddie
– CBS Radio News reports on Munich Crisis – September 24, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1938 was about the crisis over German demands for land belonging to Czechoslovakia. The Munich crisis over the Sudetenland, as it was known, was slowly turning into
America: The Vision And The Violence – NBC Radio – March 3, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. With the latest act of horrific violence, the conversation about hate, racism and violence in our society bubbles to the surface, like an open sore, once again. The conversation is as old
– Tin Machine – In Session for The BBC – BBC Radio 1 – 1991 – Tin Machine; short-lived, somewhat underrated, slightly overlooked but career rejuvenating for its front man, David Bowie. Put together at the spur of the moment in 1988, falling together effortlessly, David Bowie, along with Hunt
– News reports and joint Press conference – Bush-Gorbachev Helsinki Conference – Sept. 9, 1990 – As the crisis in the middle east continued to heat up and as the U.S. was continuing to drum up support for an armed confrontation with Iraq and Saddam Hussein, the fourth summit conference
– Roy Harper -Live at Golders Green Hippodrome – 1974 – BBC Radio 1 – Although Roy Harper is widely recognized as one of the most unique and individual singer-songwriters to come along in many years, and his associations with everyone from Kate Bush to Led Zeppelin to Pink Floyd
– CBS Morning News Roundup – August 6, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – President Truman Announcement of Atomic Bomb drop – Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 – Truman Library-Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 6, 1945 – eighty years ago, the world changed forever. But you wouldn’t
The Civil Rights Movement in America, although simmering since the Reconstruction days after the Civil War was taking center stage, almost one hundred years later. Throughout the 1950s, the movement grew as did the backlash. By the 1960s it was an unstoppable revolution, led by an increasing number of dedicated
– NBC – Listen To Washington – The Subversive Activities Control Board – Sept. 21, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – At the height of the Red Scare in the 1950s, a little-known/barely publicized organization started up in Washington. The Subversive Activities Control Board was headed up by former
– News for July 18, 1965 – WOR-AM, New York – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News reports on the war in Vietnam were coming with such regularity in 1965 as to almost make the news humdrum and monotonous. So the news for this July 18th in 1965 focused primarily
