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Simon & Garfunkel – live at The Hollywood Bowl – Part 1 August 23, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Simon &Garfunkel – Live At The Hollywood Bowl – Part 2 – August 23, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It only seems fitting, after the milestone series...
Talk Talk – in session for Kid Jensen – March 27, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – Ending up the working week with Talk Talk, in session for Kid Jensen and recorded for BBC Radio 1 on March 27, 1983. Via their Wikipedia Page (in case you don’t already know,...
May 11, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 11, 2000 – A day things spiraled out of control. The fire consuming Los Alamos New Mexico initially began as a “controlled burn”. But owing to an unexpected wind shift, it quickly exploded...
Spacemen 3 – live at Geneva – May 18, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ending up the week (or starting the new one) with a set by the somewhat short-lived (9 years) Spacemen 3, in concert from Geneva, recorded on May 18, 1989. Spacemen 3 were an English...
Violet Archer – Sonatine Number 2 for Piano – Ross Platt, Piano – CBC Transcription service – 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A name which may not be as familiar in the U.S. as it is in Canada, Violet Archer was one to most prolific and celebrated figures...
Charles Gounod: Petite Symphonie for Winds – Student Orchestra of the Paris Conservatory – Fernand Oubradous, cond. – 1952 Broadcast performance – ORTF-Paris – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Although far from being overlooked and under appreciated, Charles Gounod is primarily thought of as a composer of Opera and Choral...
March 15, 1985 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 15, 1985 – News of the latest kidnapping of a Westerner in Beirut. This one, AP Correspondent Terry Anderson, abducted by three gunmen earlier in the morning and taken away in a Green Mercedes. As...
In Camera – in session for John Peel – recorded Dec. 9, 1980 – broadcast Dec. 16, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – In Camera in their first and only session for John Peel, recorded at the BBC on December 9, 1980 and broadcast Dec. 16, 1980. Only together 3...
March 9, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 9, 2000 – In case you forgot, it was an election year and it was a race to the White House. And on this day, candidates were dropping out – from the Democrats came Bill...
Clinic – Live At Reading Festival 1997 – BBC Radio 1 – Clinic for the middle of the week. Clinic are an Indie/Alternative/Experimental/Post-Punk/Neo-Psych band from Liverpool who got started in 1997. From their Wikipedia page: Vocalist and rhythm guitarist Ade Blackburn and lead guitarist Hartley (born Jonathan Christopher Hartley, Liverpool),...
