Category Youth

The Police – Live At CW Post College – 1979 – Nights At The Roundtable: Concert Edition

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Police – Live At CW Post College, Greenvale N.Y. – October 20, 1979 – WLIR-FM Tonight’s concert comes by way of a request from a reader…

The Plague Of Comic Books – 1956 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – New World: Comic Books – July 1, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the 50s galloped on, and as the Cold War brought…

It’s All About Baseball – 1951 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles: Sports Edition

. . . Or click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Baseball – 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Today is the first official day of Baseball season. No doubt, a…

Easter – 1956 – Past Daily Holiday Gallimaufry

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – New World – Easter: 1956 – April 4, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. In 1956,the Cold War Public Relations campaign was in full…

A Taste Of Top-40 In 1958 – WABC With Alan Freed – August 1958 – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry

One of the interesting things about listening to actual history, as opposed to the recreation of it, is how much gets glossed over in the reconstruction and re-telling. Music and Popular Culture is often relegated to those key moments or…

Mamie Van Doren Talks About The Beat Generation – 1959 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Interview with Mamie Van Doren for The Beat Generation – June 6, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. A staple of the American cultural diet since Cinema…

Red Blanchard – Personification Of Zorch – 1954 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – KCBS-AM – Bill Weaver Show – Red Blanchard Filling in – June 30, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. It’s difficult, if not impossible to figure out…