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Immigration In The 1950s – Latinos In Kansas 1951 – Past Daily Reference Room

Latinas in America - 1950s

CBS Radio: Mexican-Americans – The People Act – circa 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Given the highly-charged nature of this years election – the question of Immigration and Immigrants in general seems to have taken center-stage – or at…

September 5-6, 1975 – “It Didn’t Go Off!” – President Ford Meets Squeaky Fromme

President Ford

  [laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”29112″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”September 6, 1975 – CBS Radio – The Washington Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Become a Patron! The week of September 6th in 1975 was an odd one. It ended with an…

Soft Machine – In Session 1968 – Past Daily Soundbooth

Soft Machine

Soft Machine – August 25, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Soft Machine – in session for French TV-Radio (RTL or ORTF), and recorded on August 25, 1968. The first time I saw Soft Machine, they were opening for…

September 5, 1981 – Solidarity Meets In Gdansk

Solidarity Labor Congress in Gdansk

September 5, 1981 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News from Gdansk today, as the Solidarity labor Movement held its first Congress in Gdansk, while the Soviet Union was staging military maneuvers nearby. It was…

Pierre-Michel LeConte Plays Music Of Bizet – 1949 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone

Pierre-Michel LeConte

For Audio Files: If you’re a record collector, particularly of early lps, the name Pierre-Michel LeConte is most likely familiar to you. During that period of transition in the late 1940s to the early 1950s, from 78s to what was…

Louis Armstrong – Red Callender – Jubilee 1943 – Past Daily Downbeat

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong, in one of the many War Effort programs he did during World War 2. A frequent guest on jubilee all through the War years, Armstrong was a heavy favorite among the troops. Jubilee was a program, originally run…