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Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Biography In Sound – Connie Mack: Mister Baseball – April 10, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Believe it or not, we are in the middle of Baseball season. And with that in mind, I ran across this...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio – Newsmark – Arthur Ashe, Roberston Davies, Sen. John Tower – May 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Two interesting and diverse interviews this weekend, and something political to keep it all strange and current. An episode from the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Count Basie and His Orchestra – Live at The Hollywood Bowl – August 11, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Over to the Hollywood again this weekend. This time for a concert by the inimitable Count Basie and his Orchestra, recorded...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – News From The 1960 Summer Olympics – NBC Radio – September 3, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This week, 53 years ago, Rome was playing host to the 1960 Summer Olympics. In this report, re-capping the events for the day...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Division of Laura Lee and JJ – live at Knarrholmen Festival, Sweden, August 21, 2013 – Sveriges Radio P3 Over to Sweden tonight for a live session from the 2013 Knarrholmen Festival featuring Indie/Alt/Post-Punk band Division of Laura Lee, combined with...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – New York Philharmonic – Aaron Copland, guest Conductor – November 11, 1980 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player- New York Philharmonic – Klaus Tennstedt, guest Conductor – November 11, 1980 – Part 2 Something historic again...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – John Alden Carpenter – Tango from Dance Suite – NBC Orchestra cond. by Henri Nosco – July 6, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Some Americana tonight – actually North Americana approximating South Americana by a popular composer of the 1930s...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – U2 – Live In Session at The BBC – 1980 – BBC 6 Music Something familiar tonight, but early. U2 in 1980 as they were hitting the charts with I Will Follow (and the rest is history). It’s interesting to consider...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The New York Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl – September 1, 1963 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player: The New York Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl – September 1, 1963 – Part 2 Become a Patron! Another extreme rarity...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: George W. Chadwick – A Vagrom Ballad – NBC Studio Orchestra – Henri Nosco – June 28, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Before the likes of Aron Copland, Roy Harris and many other composers of the “modern period” of American Classical...
