Category Unreleased recordings

Boyd Raeburn

Boyd Raeburn And His Orchestra – Live At Club Morocco, Hollywood – 1945 – Past Daily Downbeat

Being a subscriber/member/patron makes a huge difference: Become a Patron! Boyd Raeburn and His Orchestra, live at Club Morocco on Vine Street, between Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards in Hollywood from around October of 1945. Boyd Raeburn was one of those…

Henry Moore

An Interview With Sculptor Henry Moore – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry

– Henry Moore – interviewed by David Carroll – circa 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Widely regarded as one of the most evocative and original modernist sculptors of the 20th Century, Henry Moore’s works are seen practically everywhere…

Captain Beyond

Captain Beyond – Montreux – 1971 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth

Goes nicely with a double espresso: We take requests – and this is one of them. Captain Beyond were one of those bands that had all the earmarks of being a household name, but for whatever reason; timing and a…

Kevin Ayers

Kevin Ayers – Radio Bremen 1976 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth

Subscriptions aid in survival: Become a Patron! When news surfaced, some eleven years ago, that Kevin Ayers had died, it was one of those shocking and sad occasions that instantly recalled all those contributions he had made over the decades…

Salonika

Voices Of Spring – Tensions In Europe – March 20, 1939

It adds up, so subscribe: Become a Patron! – Radio Paris Shortwave – Radio Moscow Shortwave – News – March 20, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As tensions increased throughout Europe, this first day of Spring in 1939,…

Paranoia In The Age Of Anxiety – Operation Alert – 1959 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room

– Operation Alert 1959 – Conelrad Emergency Broadcast – Gordon Skene Sound Collection If the Cold War period wasn’t frightening enough for the average person, with daily news reports of tensions and takeovers and thinly-veiled threats, there was the extra…

A Word Or Two From Swami Satchidananda – 1967 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

NET: Newsfront – Interview with Swami Satchidananda – September 6, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In that wildly upheaval year of 1967 among so many revolutionary changes, came an onslaught of Gurus from India. Not that Eastern Philosophy…