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Lucy In The Sky – Assignment: 69 – KNX-AM – 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1969, if you were growing up, a teenager, a young adult or anyone moderately aware of the world going on around you, you no doubt had familiarity with, personal knowledge of, bought...
The last hour of Top-40 KFWB – March 10, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection There you are – March 10, 1968 – anywhere between the ages of 14 and 24. KFWB, the radio station you have come to rely on for all your musical discoveries is going off the...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Bessie Banks – Go Now + It Sounds Like My Baby – 1964, 1963 When I ran the BBC Session of the Moody Blues debut hit Go Now last night, I wanted to slip the original version...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Moody Blues – Go Now – BBC Saturday Club – April 1965 – BBC Radio 1 Sadly, only one track has survived (so far) from The Moody Blues from this session. This one from the BBC...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Sunday Evening With Mitch Miller – January 8, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Aside from his extensive work in Music and TV, Mitch Miller was also an avid interviewer. In the late 1950s and early 60s...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – 1964 YMCA Day At The Hollywood Bowl – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The follow-up year to the classic 1963 Hollywood Bowl Y-Day concert, which featured The Beach Boys and a host of Surf and Pop bands, the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Turtles – BBC Saturday Club – June, 1967 – BBC Radio 1 A very short one tonight, a little over four minutes to be exact. But a rare one Anyone who spent any amount of time on the West Coast,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Keely Smith in Concert at The Hollywood Bowl – June 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the sad news this weekend of the passing of Keely Smith, I remembered this concert I ran back in 2013. It was The Hollywood...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – John Sebastian in concert at The Fillmore – October 4, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Taking it down a few notches tonight with a concert by John Sebastian recorded at The Fillmore on October 4, 1969. Sebastian, a fixture in...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBC Radio – Glenn Gould and The Moog Synthesizer – 1968 – CBC Radio Without a doubt, there isn’t a musician or a band in the last 40 years that doesn’t owe some debt (or some curse, depending on how you...
