– Captain Beefheart – Live at the Cowtown Ballroom, Kansas City – April 22, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the story goes, in 1974 Captain Beefheart had signed to a new label (Mercury) and was literally weeks from embarking on a major world tour, starting in America.
– CNN Radio – Hourly News 1:00 am – 7:00 pm EDT – August 28, 2005 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ten years ago today, Hurricane Katrina was bearing down on New Orleans in what became one of the most devastating natural disasters in American history. Just another hurricane
– NBC Radio News – August 27, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As preparations were finishing up, the 3rd Fleet was moving into Segami Bay and the first of several contingents of U.S. troops were preparing to land on Japanese shores, starting the beginning of the first full
– News from BBC World Service – Polish Radio – German Radio – August 23-24, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It was huge, impossible news for August 23rd in 1939. And shock waves reverberated all over the world for days after. The Pact, negotiated since June of 1939,
– The Camel Caravan With Benny Goodman And His Orchestra – Sept.6, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As long as I’ve been posting on the weekend Downbeat page, I’ve never gotten around to posting anything from the acknowledged Big Band Era of the 1930s – certainly no live
– Tame Impala – Live At Splendour In The Grass Festival – July 31, 2010 – Triple J Radio – Australia – At the risk of sounding shamelessly self-indulgent this weekend; it’s my Birthday. And so, to give myself permission to run anything I want to, I’ve decided to run
– ABC Radio National – Life Matters Program – Interview with Simon Goodman – August 6, 2015 – ABC Radio National, Australia – During the final months of World War 2 in Europe, and as Allied armies pushed closer and closer to Berlin, the larger, more sinister and horrifying picture
– Continuous News Reports – August 21, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When a coup, staged by hardliners, threatened to topple the Soviet Government of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, the world held its collective breath as news unfolded by the hour. While news reports kept coming in
– CBS Radio News – August 21, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 21, 1979 – dog days of Summer, no matter when. On this dog day of Summer in 1979, President Carter was taking a working vacation on a riverboat down the Mississippi, stopping along the way
– The (English) Beat – In Session for John Peel – September 3, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – More from Two-Tone Records this week, by way of The Beat, or The (English) Beat, if you were in the U.S. – the reason for the (English) insertion was to clear
