L.A. Radio in 1952 – Jim Hawthorne – KNX – Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles
Here’s a snapshot of what radio was like in Los Angeles in 1952, featuring names and voices which were popular at the time, but all but forgotten today.
Tag: CBS Radio
A Day Called X – 1959 – Cold War Fear And Paranoia – Past Daily Reference Room
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio: The Hidden Revolution – A Day Called X – March 18, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection One thing was certain about the Cold War, there was no shortage of doomsday scenarios and no ceiling on the amount of
The State Of Labor – Gov. Frank Murphy Of Michigan – 1937 – Past Daily Reference Room
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio Department Of Talks – Governor Frank Murphy: A Fair Deal For Labor – Sept. 24, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With all the news in recent years about labor, unions, “right-to-work” and the anti-union movement, it’s important
Hell Bombs And Wonder Drugs – 1950 – Past Daily Reference Room
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio – You And . . .The World – January 15-16, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection You could, in all likelihood, use that well-worn phrase from Dickens, The Best of Times – The Worst of Times to apply directly
A Word From Arthur Ashe And A Few Words From Robertson Davies And A Word About Ethics – Past Daily Weekend Reference Room
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio – Newsmark – Arthur Ashe, Roberston Davies, Sen. John Tower – May 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Two interesting and diverse interviews this weekend, and something political to keep it all strange and current. An episode from the
Ray Price On The Radio – 1953 – (RIP: Ray Price – 1926-2013) – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio – Aunt Jemima’s Home Folks with Ray Price – May 6, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection While the tributes keeping coming in, reacting to the sad news that Country Music legend and band leader Ray Price lost his
Hanging On An Empty Promise – September 24, 1938
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio News reports on Munich Crisis – September 24, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1938 was about the crisis over German demands for land belonging to Czechoslovakia. The Munich crisis over the Sudetenland, as
Duke Ellington – Live At The Ravinia Festival 1957 – Past Daily Downbeat
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Duke Ellington in concert at the Ravinia Festival – July 1, 1957 – CBS Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The legendary Duke Ellington this weekend. The Radio premier of his Such Sweet Thunder, Suite on characters from Shakespeare as performed
About The Weather . . . In Search Of Andrew – August 23, 1992
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio News – Special Reports on Hurricane Andrew – August 23, 1992 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In what became the last Category 5 Hurricane of the 20th Century, Andrew on this August 23rd in 1992 was poised to hit
August Is Overthrow Season – August 19, 1991
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS – The World Tonight + reports via KNX-AM – August 19, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Not to make light of a situation that often involves dramatic upheaval and a large amount of killing, but August just seems to