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Keef Hartley (Big) Band In Concert – John Peel’s Sunday Concert – November 22, 1970 – BBC Radio 1 – Keef Hartley in concert this week. An artist and a band who would have become household names had their manager not insisted on being paid upfront to be filmed or...
KRLA – Bob Dayton – August 14, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Become a Patron! It’s August 14, 1969 – in a few weeks school will be starting. Summer will be over – well . . . until the Santa Ana winds start blowing in October, and then it’s...
Violet Archer – Trio Number 2 (1958) The Halifax Trio – CBC International – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! The Music of Canadian composer Violet Archer this week. Her Trio Number 2 as played on this CBC transcription disc by The Halifax Trio, recorded in the early...
The Feeling Of Love – Live At Route du Rock: Collection d’Hiver – February 17, 2013 – Radio France International – A taste of Parisian Punk tonight by way of The Feeling of Love, as they were recorded in concert at the Route du Rock, Winter Collection on February 17,...
– August 8, 1993 – Word from Mogadishu – an ambush by Somali rebels took four U.S. soldiers, the worst casualty toll so far since their arrival in Somalia the previous December. The American troops were escorting a convoy near Mogadishu when one vehicle hit a landmine. According to eyewitness...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Marilyn Monroe: Fame Is Fickle – NBC Radio Tribute – August 6, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Hard to imagine it was fifty-seven years ago today the world lost Marilyn Monroe. Within hours of finding her body, dead from an...
Ruth Posselt with Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – March 24, 1951 Become a Patron! Continuing our series of Boston Symphony Rehearsals. This week it’s the BSO under Music Director Charles Munch and the legendary American violinist Ruth Posselt in a rehearsal of Ernst Bloch‘s Baal Shem...
The Sugarcubes In Session for John Peel – December 9, 1987 – BBC Radio 1 – The Sugarcubes tonight. Fronted by the inimitable Björk and only together for a relatively short period of time (1986-1992), they managed to make an indelible impression on the Indie/Alternative scene, prompting such mainstream stalwart...
– Certainly not a dull week in history, this July in 1949. Starting off with fears and accusations coming from Britain over post-War Germany and a repudiation of claims from Sir Winston Churchill that he demanded total destruction and complete surrender of Germany at the end of World War 2....
NBC Radio – Second Sunday – August 11, 1968 Become a Patron! Since the subject of Healthcare has been front-and-center in the media and most conversation the past few decades, it’s sobering to know it’s not a new argument. In fact, the subject of affordable healthcare has been argued since...
