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Les Lignes Droites (The Straight Lines) – Live at FIMU Festival 2018 – Belfort, France – April 19, 2018 – France Bleu Radio – Starting off the week with something unconventional and not in English. Les Lignes Droites (The Straight Lines, according to their Webpage) are a relatively new band,...
Jacques Higelin – in concert from Antibes – 1980 – Radio France International – In a year already overloaded with passings, news that the death earlier today of French legend – poet, singer-songwriter, actor, activist Jacques Higelin, offered one more bit of evidence that 2018 is going down as another...
Ben L’Oncle With The Monophonics – Live At Hotel de Ville de Paris – July 20, 2014 – FNAC Live – RFI FIP – Ben L’Oncle With The Monophonics tonight. It occurred to me that I haven’t been paying a whole pile of attention to what’s currently going on in...
Jean Rivier – Violin Concerto – Henri Merckel, violin – ORTF Symphony – Pierre-Michel Le Conte – ORTF Studio recording, circa 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary Belgian violinist Henri Merckel accompanied by Pierre-Michel LeConte and the ORTF Orchestra in this broadcast studio performance of the violin...
November 6, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow And The News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 6, 1951 – General Eisenhower raised more than a few eyebrows when he arrived in Washington and then quickly left, heading back to France. President Truman said there was only one reason for...
– Temples – Live At Oüi-FM Festival, Paris – June 23, 2015 – Oüi-FM – Earlier during this festival season, I posted a Temples gig at the Best Kept Secret Festival in Holland from June 20. Here is another performance by this seemingly everywhere-band, recorded three days later in Paris...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Elsa Barraine – Symphony Nr. 2 – Paris Conservatory Orch. -Cluytens – circa 1953 – ORTF-Paris Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Elsa Barraine is a name not heard very much lately. But in the 1930s, all...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Palace – in session for London Calling 2015 – May 17, 2015 – VPRO-3VOOR12 Continuing with the latest batch of sessions from the recently concluded London Calling Festival in Holland last week. Palace are another discovery....
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Secret Affair – Live at Rock Goes To College – 1978 – BBC Radio 1/ BBC6 Music Jumping into the Ska/Mod Revival from the late 70s with Secret Affair, recorded by The BBC as part of their Rock Goes To College...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for Week ending February 1, 1975 Somehow, it always winds up being about the Economy. This first day of February in 1975 was all about the Budget and President Ford‘s proposal for Fiscal Year 1976. It was also about unemployment figures,...