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Jake Isaac – In Session For London Calling 2015 – Nights At The Roundtable: Session Edition

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Jake Isaac – In session for London Calling 2015 – May 16, 2015 – VPRO/3VOOR12-FM Continuing our survey of sessions from the recently ended London Calling Festival,…

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May 28, 2015

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The Police – Live At CW Post College – 1979 – Nights At The Roundtable: Concert Edition

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Police – Live At CW Post College, Greenvale N.Y. – October 20, 1979 – WLIR-FM Tonight’s concert comes by way of a request from a reader…

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April 20, 2015

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A Taste Of Top-40 In 1958 – WABC With Alan Freed – August 1958 – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry

One of the interesting things about listening to actual history, as opposed to the recreation of it, is how much gets glossed over in the reconstruction and re-telling. Music and Popular Culture is often relegated to those key moments or…

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March 29, 2015
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The Left Banke w/Michael Brown – Live At BB Kings 2012 – (RIP: Michael Brown – 1949-2015) – Nights At The Roundtable: Tribute Edition

. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Left Banke (w/Michael Brown) Live at BB Kings – April 29, 2012 One of the frustrations about The Left Banke, was the nonexistence of any live performances…

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March 19, 2015

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A Scene Of Chaos – March 18, 1975

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC News – March 18, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Drawing comparisons to the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, news for…

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March 18, 2015

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Supergrass – Live In Paris – 1997 – Nights At The Roundtable: Concert Edition

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Supergrass – Live in Paris – 1997 – BBC 6 Music Sadly, Supergrass called it a day back in 2010. Certainly one of the more energetic bands…

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January 16, 2015

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Muddy Waters – In Concert At CW Post College – 1977 – Nights At The Roundtable: Concert Edition

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Muddy Waters – Live at CW Post College – October 18, 1977 -WLIR-FM More classic concerts tonight. This time (and something completely different) it’s Muddy Waters, in…

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December 10, 2014
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Orchestre National De France With Stéphane Denève Play Music Of Mendelssohn, Poulenc And Roussel – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Orchestre National de France – Live broadcast – Nov. 27, 2014 – Radio France Musique Over to Paris this week for a concert by Orchestre National de…

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December 3, 2014

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The Neglect Of Reading – 1957 – Past Daily Weekend Reference Room

. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – Chicago University Roundtable – The Neglect of Reading – 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Even in 1957 Americans were reading less. Not the rest of the…

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November 15, 2014
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Beirut Requiem – October 28, 1975

Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Nightly News – October 28, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another day of stress and wonderment, this October 28th in 1975. Beginning with news of the intensified fighting between…

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October 28, 2014

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