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Michel Perrault: Quebec Folk Sketches – CBC Toronto Chamber Orch. Cond. Michel Perrault – CBC 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Michel Perrault this weekend, performed by the CBC Toronto Chamber Orchestra, led by the composer. This comes by way of a broadcast transcription made...
– Maximum Joy – in session for Kid Jensen – BBC Radio 1 – April 15, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 A dose of Post-Punk/Funk/Afro-Beat and Pop tonight, by way of Maximum Joy. Recorded at BBC Radio 1 for the Kid Jensen program on April 15, 1982. Maximum Joy formed...
Rudof Serkin, Piano – Boston Symphony – Seiji Ozawa, Cond. Sept, 25, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Normally, I don’t post half concerts or portions of concerts for the Mid-Week feature. And I almost didn’t post this one, had it not been for the very special nature of...
Sir Lancelot and The Caribbean Serenaders – Keynote Records Album K-126 – Circa 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sir Lancelot to end the weekend. Calypso is most likely buried in the backroom of musical memory, having been hugely popular in the early part of the 20th century and...
Roger Calmel – Concerto For Organ, Strings and Percussion – Pierre Cochereau, Organ – ORTF Chamber Orch. Pol Mule, Cond. ORTF Session – December, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Back to France this week for music of a highly prolific, but almost totally unknown composer outside his native...
May 4, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 4, 1995 – 15 days after the Oklahoma City Bombing, Police, FBI and ATF agents were still sifting through rubble, still looking for bodies and still looking for suspects. On this day a sketch emerged...
The Weather Prophets – in session for Janice Long – October 2, 1985 – BBC Radio 1 – The Weather Prophets to start the week. A short-lived band (1985-1988) that was resurrected from the break-up of another indie band, The Loft. Following the breakup of The Loft, Peter Astor (vocals,...
WTBS – Cambridge – The Joe Shmo Go-Go Show – May 15, 1968 – M.I.T. – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Admit it, you wanted to be a disc-jockey at your college radio station. Anybody who owned more than 25 records considered themselves experts on the subject and capable of...
The Fourth Amendment – The American Forum Of The Air – April 15, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Fourth Amendment – in case you forgot: The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and...
April 23, 1989 – CBS Radio Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 23, 1989 – A day loaded with mixed emotions. The arrival at port of the Battleship USS Iowa, where an explosion in one of the ship’s gun turrets claimed the lives of some 47 sailors....
