Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1: Opening Day of Congress – 1937 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2: Opening Day of Congress -1937 – Part 2 As a reminder of how much things change, and how much they remain
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Houdini’s Last Seance – Oct. 31, 1936 In what was promised to be the media event of the decade, the legendary illusionist, magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, who had died on Halloween night 1926, had promised to make an appearance from
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Chamberlain – Sept. 24, 1938 The Crisis of 1938 – the dispute between Germany and Czechoslovakia over land claims by the Germans marked a significant change in what was going on in the world and how it was being received. First, it
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Lies – Mildred Bailey w:Orch. – Rec. November, 1931 Something completely different tonight. Diving way back in the vaults for a sampling of Hot Jazz from the legendary Mildred Bailey from a session she recorded in Chicago for RCA-Victor with an orchestra
A few years ago, when I first put this piece up on Newstalgia, a lot of readers expressed happiness over its inclusion, but weren’t too thrilled about the sound of the recording. Truth was, at the time the audio player I was using at my old site wasn’t very good
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”4355″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”August 24, 1939 – News from Paris Mondial – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] August 24, 1939 – News of this day – and depending on where you were, it was either August 24th or 25th, was completely taken over by the surprising move on
Click on the link here for audio player: FDR Signs Social Security Act – Aug. 14, 1935 Today marks the seventy-seventh birthday of The Social Security Act. FDR: “The civilization of the past hundred years, with its startling industrial changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young
Billed as a Fireside Chat, even though it was one of the hottest Summer days in Washington, President Roosevelt gave one of his frequent talks on the state of the Nation and the State of the Government. Assessing the accomplishments of the recently adjourned 75th Congress and his thoughts on
