"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”5521″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 30, 1948 – America Votes – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Harry Truman had ascended to the presidency in April 1945 after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Defeating attempts to…
I just ran across this one from the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland which was recorded on July 13, 2013. Sophie Hunger is from Zurich and she was a surprise hit at the 2008 Montreux Festival. Her sound is a mixture…
During these strange and COVID times, and no stimulus: Become a Patron! A dose of Americana this weekend and nod to the homefolks with this early 70s in-studio radio concert from the legendary Steely Dan, as broadcast over equally legendary…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”10691″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 23, 1962 – News Special – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this day in 1962 was decidedly ominous, and if you had grown up on a diet of Cold…
Part 1 Part 2 Over to Prague from 1979 this week for a concert by the BBC Symphony, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky and featuring Viktoria Postnikova, piano. The concert was recorded during the legendary Prague Spring Festival and features works…
Covering some familiar territory tonight. Familiar composer, but a less familiar work. Jacques Ibert has enjoyed a popularity undiminished with time. Versatile and well regarded during his lifetime, his popularity has only increased since his death 50 years ago. Ibert…
One of my favorite bands of the last 20 years, Portishead in concert are always an eagerly anticipated event. And they certainly didn’t disappoint this year at Glasto. Beth Gibbons‘ mesmerizing vocals, mistakenly considered doom-laden by some, but once you…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”10599″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 15, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow And The News – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] October 15, 1951 – A busy news day. A war in Korea and from Capitol Hill,…
With the Presidential Campaign of 1936 in its last weeks and at fevered pitch, President Roosevelt embarked on a coast-to-coast tour to bring his message home. In 1936, America was in better shape than it was in 1932. But detractors…
Billed as “featuring live London performances of today’s top sounds”, the BBC launched Top Of The Pops in its radio version in 1964. No connection with the TV version of the show (oddly), the radio version featured bands, hit makers…