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Subscribe? Become a Patron! – NBC Radio – News for March 21, 1947 – News for this first day of Spring in 1947 was about the situation in Salonika and economic crisis spreading throughout Europe, with Greece and Turkey in…
It adds up, so subscribe: Become a Patron! – Radio Paris Shortwave – Radio Moscow Shortwave – News – March 20, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As tensions increased throughout Europe, this first day of Spring in 1939,…
Coffee works and it works real good: – REM – In Concert from Dortmund, Germany – October 2, 1985 – WDR Rockpalast – REM in the early days was the proverbial breath of fresh air. They represented that slice of…
Subscribing works wonders: Become a Patron! – Today With Mrs. Roosevelt – Feb. 26, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1950, just prior to the outbreak of the Korean War and during the steady boil of the Cold…
Become a Patron! – The Smiths in Concert from Hamburg, Germany – 1984 – WDR When the Smiths first arrived on the scene, a friend of mine in the UK told me there was a new band getting a lot…
Become a Subscriber: Become a Patron! – News For January 31, 1941 – News for this last day of January in 1941 was a continuation of The Blitz which had begun months earlier. Continued daylight air raids over London and…
– The Editors – Live At Trojan Horse, The Hague, Netherlands – October 6, 2015 – VPRO/3VOORFM – Switching gears this week for things more contemporary. This morning it’s The Editors, the hugely successful and critically acclaimed Indie band from…
– News for January 16, 1942 – News for this day in 1942 was hopeful and grim, in equal portion. The Battle for Singapore was on and fighting was going taking place all over the Far East. In Mexico, the…
Become a Patron! New Years Day in 1945 was pretty much “business as usual” during World War 2. Although the Allies were making substantial gains in their drive into Germany. The infamous Battle Of The Bulge that went on just…
-NBC – Listen To Washington – November 2,1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the Cold War became a permanent fixture for life in the 1950s, so were the Summit conferences taking place in Geneva. Seemingly, ever few months,…