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Arthur Foote – A Night Piece For Flute and String Quartet – Julius Baker, flute – Sylvan Shulman, 1st violin – Bernard Robbins, 2nd violin – Harold Coletta, viola – Bernard Greenhouse, cello – Decca Records (U.S.) – DL-4013 – Circa 1952. Become a Patron! The music of Arthur Foote...
Gloria Mann, The Jayhawks, The Three Chuckles, Sam “The Man” Taylor – Alan Freed’s Camel Rock N’ Roll Dance Party – July 31, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Another installment of the short-lived, but very important network rock n’ roll radio show, The Camel Rock...
Mal Waldron/Christian Burchard Quartet – Live in Lörrach, Germany – December 6, 1968 – WDR – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – All subscribers get freebies: Become a Patron! Mal Waldron this weekend, collaborating with vibraphonist Christian Burchard, along with Karl Theodore Geier on bass and Ivor Thorpe on drums in...
Little Feat – In Concert From Boston – WBCN-FM – October 14, 1988 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Paul Barrere is gone. He left earlier today. The announcement was made via Little Feat’s website: It is with great sorrow that Little Feat must announce the passing...
The Chambers Brothers – live on German TV – 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! If the Chambers Brothers did nothing else in the course of their careers than the iconic Time Has Come Today, they would still be regarded as one of the primary figures...
KFWB – Reb Foster Show – January 21, 1966 – Ellis Feaster Collection – Become a Patron! It’s January 21, 1966 – months to go before the next vacation. Classes seem to go on forever. You miss Summer. You hate the rain – you don’t like the cold – but...
45 Grave – Live At The L.A. Press Club – September 20, 1981 – band soundboard – Become a Patron! A dose of L.A. Punk for a Friday night by way of 45 Grave, one of the pioneering groups of the L.A. Punk and later Goth scene. The band was...
Become a Patron and get freebies! Become a Patron! Nixon and The Press – almost legendary in its sheer antagonism as the Watergate scandal lumbered along in 1973. As an example of the fighting back and forth and the hate-hate relationship that had developed, here (to go along with the...
NPR- Special Report – Cambodia -Background Report – August 14, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Mentioning the name Cambodia in the 1970s and you would conjure up images of mass anti-war protests, U.S. involvement and fear of another Vietnam. It was an ongoing civil war that lasted from...
Become a Patron! This day, 30 years ago we were busily invading the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada in what has been described as “A lovely little war”. Considered a threat to stability in the region, the small island was at the center of a controversy involving Cuba, a lot...
