April 25, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 25, 2000 – the political windstorm over the Elian Gonzalez affair was starting to wind down, or at least try to. The young boy, subject of an intense immigration battle as the result
April 20, 1992 – CBS Radio Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 20, 1992 – A busy days for vigils, protests, car accidents and observances. After exhausting all appeals, convicted killer Robert Alton Harris was spending the day saying goodbyes before heading down to the Death Watch
April 18, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 18, 2000 – Wall Street on the rebound for the second day as a feeding frenzy pushed the Dow up to new heights. At the end of this Super Tuesday, the Stock Market
April 7, 1983 -CBS Radio News + Shuttle Challenger Special Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 7, 1983 – A day for the NASA history books. The Shuttle Challenger staged the first walk in space made by an American team in over a decade happened on this
Essential Logic – in session for John Peel – Feb. 6, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – Essential Logic tonight, featuring former X-Ray Spex saxophonist Lora Logic. This was the band she formed just after leaving Spex in 1978 and this is their first and only session listed as Essential
March 14,1983 – CBS World News Roundup – Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 14,1983 – Busy news day. In London, OPEC Ministers were gathering in the hopes of coming up with a benchmark oil price of $29.00 a barrel and new production quotas. Of the 13
Dead Kennedys – Live At Old Waldorf – October 25, 1979 – KALX-FM, Berkeley – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Dead Kennedys in concert at Old Waldorf in San Francisco, recorded on October 25, 1979. For all the Punk and post-Punk era bands I’ve been running over the years, I
February 24, 1978 – CBS Radio: The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 24, 1978 – 11th hour negotiations for a settlement in the Coal Miners strike brought a cautious sigh of relief to the country, this day 39 years ago. Two hours ahead of Federal intervention
Larry Coryell and The 11th House – Live at The Village Gate – November 10, 1975 – WRVR-FM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another staggering loss to the music world over the weekend. It was just learned today that guitar virtuoso/poet/innovator Larry Coryell passed away Sunday. Causes, as yet
February 20, 2002 – BBC World Service – World Briefing – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 20, 2002 – a view of the world this day 15 years ago. Further evidence, not much has changed. The Middle East was headlining the news this day, with reports of Israeli aircraft,
