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Andy Griffith And Don Knotts Pitch Sanka – 1960
Don Knotts and Andy Griffith – it didn’t get too much more Americana than this. https://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/andy-griffith-sanka-commercials-1960.mp3 Not necessarily a tribute as...
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Eastman Rochester Symphony Play Music of Bennett, Harris, Thomson and Hadley...
Robert Russell Bennett – became more synonymous with Broadway than the Concert House. Click on the link here for Audio Player: America’s Composers 1953 Since we’re heading into Thanksgiving week next...
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Pastdaily Weekend Gramophone – Douglas Moore: Farm Journal – 1945.
Americana – an endless resource for 20th Century composers. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/22170718/douglas-moore-farm-journal.mp3 Since we’re rolling into the Fourth of...
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Y-Day At The Bowl – 1963. The Beach Boys, Surfaris, The Routers, The...
The Challengers – Y-Day At The Bowl – 1963. A pivotal moment in retrospect. Part 1: https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/22170633/y-day-at-the-hollywood-bowl-1.mp3 Part 2:...
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Cities On The Edge – 1975
Cities in default was an issue in the 70’s too. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/22170543/npr-options-cities-in-trouble-1975.mp3 With the latest reports of several towns in...
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Pete Seeger, The Dillards, Joan Baez, The Modern Folk Quartet, Joe & Eddie –...
Joe & Eddie – A spirited opening to a spirited show. Part 1: https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/22170533/no-on-prop-14-rally-1964-1.mp3 Part 2:...
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America: The Vision And The Violence – 1969 – Past Daily Reference Room
Senseless violence – as American as Apple Pie. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/22170426/second-sunday-america-the-vision-and-the-violence-1969.mp3 With the news beginning...
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Buffalo Springfield, The Seeds, Johnny Rivers, The Supremes – KHJ...
A flyer for the concert – Further evidence the 60’s meant broad taste in music. Part 1 https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/22170418/khj-appreciation-day-at-the-bowl-1967-1.mp3...
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Gemini 7 Launches Into Space – December 4, 1965
Gemini 7 launch – cigars all around in Houston. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/22164030/gemini-7-launch-dec-4-1965.mp3 Download For $1.99: - Launch of Gemini 7 - Dec. 4,...
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End Of American Innocence – 1963 – Thurgood Marshall, Norman Thomas, Reinhold...
Robert Kennedy shooting 1968 – the end of American innocence came long before this. But it got no better....
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January 29, 1951 – War In Korea: “No One Is Going To Drive Us Into The Sea”–...
Korea: Another week of “police action”. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/22162036/news-for-january-29-1951.mp3 Download For $1.99: - News for January 29, 1951 - NBC Radio -...
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March 12, 1948 – The Bier In Prague: Questions Over Masaryk – The Carping On...
Masaryk death: Amid the ocean of tears a question; “Did he jump, or was he pushed”? https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/22160243/news-for-march-13-1948.mp3 Download For $1.99: -...
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April 15, 1950 -Baseball, Cold War, Red Scares And Television – Life On...
And the coming bane of Western Culture; Television. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/22155130/news-for-week-ending-april-15-1950.mp3 Download For $1.99: - April 15, 1950...
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Music Of Hartley, Pursell And Nelson – America’s Composers 1953 – Past Daily...
Composer William Pursell during his foray into Pop Music. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/22154053/americas-composers-program-7-1953.mp3 Become a Patron! Continuing this...
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May 20, 1962 – JFK Would Like A Word With You About Medicare – Past Daily...
JFK – not only was Medicare an idea whose time had come, it was an idea whose passage was imperative....
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June 4, 1961 – The Wages Of Foreign Policy – The Price Of A Man On The Moon
Our Foreign Policy: And always a little something to remind you. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/22153156/news-in-review-june-4-1961.mp3 Download For $1.99: - June 5, 1961 -...
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf-Willi Boskovsky – Hollywood Bowl 1963 – Past Daily...
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf – Bringing some sultry Viennese air to a hot Summer night in Hollywood in 1963. Part One:...
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July 10, 1970 -“As Long As They’re Giving Away Free TV Sets, I’ll Bank Here”
“If ya feel, ya heal!” https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/22151739/news-for-july-10-1970.mp3 Download For $1.99: - July 10, 1970 - NBC Nightly News - Gordon Skene Sound...
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July 8, 1956 – Happy Pills And The Dawn Of The Pharmaceutical Generation
Happy Pills. In the 1950s, Americans were finding it increasingly difficult to get out of bed in the morning. And with good reason....
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July 23, 1951 – Death Of Marshal Petain: What To Do With A Disgraced Hero –...
Petain Funeral – agonizing over a War hero’s celebrated past and the rotten one. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/22151143/news-for-july-23-1951.mp3 Download For $1.99: -...
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August 28, 1963 – March On Washington – The Civil Rights Movement In The 60s
Civil Rights Movement In America. . . only the beginning. August 28th marks the 57th anniversary of the legendary March on Washington. The largest Civil Rights demonstration of its kind up to this...
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September 10, 1949 –“Something Went Snap”– Mass Shooting In New Jersey –...
Shooting suspect Howard Unruh: “People said bad things about my character”. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/22144253/news-for-week-ending-sept-10-1949.mp3 Download For...
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February 13, 1951: War In Korea – Withdrawals, Maneuvering, Condemnation And...
Korea: ” A War of Maneuver” – Gen. MacArthur. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/13090314/news-for-february-13-1951.mp3 Download For $1.99: - News for February 13, 1951 -...
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February 19, 1951 – The Situation In Korea: Successful Advances – Attempted...
Gen. Matthew Ridgeway – Skillfully portraying Upbeat in a constantly changing situation. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/22161157/news-for-february-19-1951.mp3 Download For...
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March 19, 1948 – A Cold War Tinderbox – Roman Spring – The Marshall Plan
A Cold War Roman Spring – 1948. Weather is here – wish you were beautiful. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/22155935/news-for-march-19-1948.mp3 Download For $1.99: - News for...
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March 27, 1957 – The McClellan Hearings – RFK Vs. The Teamsters
Robert F. Kennedy grilling Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa at The McClellan Racketeering Hearings – Start of the Blood Feud....
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Detroit – City Of The Future In 1949 – October 7, 1949 – Past Daily Reference...
Brochures proclaimed Detroit: The City Beautiful – reality proclaimed something else. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/22143109/october-8-1949-detroit.mp3 Download For $1.99:...
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Living On The Edge: 1956 – Past Daily Reference Room
Living: Seems we were melting down in the 1950s. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/22155945/the-great-challenge-individual-relationships-in-a-mass-society-april-22-1956.mp3...
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October 15, 1951 – War In Korea –“We Don’t Have Magic Weapons To Win Wars...
War In Korea: No they didn’t. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/22142823/News-for-October-15-1951.mp3 Download For $1.99: - October 15, 1951 - Edward R. Murrow And The News -...
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The Everly Brothers On The Air – 1958 – Past Daily Soundbooth
The Everly Brothers – High priests of Pop in 1958 https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/22170604/the-everly-brothers-on-the-big-record-1958.mp3 Not askin’ for much:Become a...
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Happy Pills – 1956 – Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles.
In every dream home, a heartache. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/22165948/american_forum_-_happy_pills_-1956.mp3 Mental Health in the 1950’s was still something of a...
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January 18, 1956 – Looking At The Rose Through World Colored Glasses – John...
John Foster Dulles (with French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault) – An alarmists Dream Date. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/22162359/keys-to-the-capitol-jan-18-1956.mp3...
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February 5, 1961 – The Economy: In Good Shape At The Moment – In Bad Shape...
Commerce Sec. Luther Hodges with his Boss. The subject was the Economy. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/22161800/luther-hodges-february-5-1961.mp3 Download For $1.99: -...
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March 4, 1950 –“Brilliant Mind – Nasty Person”: The Klaus Fuchs Affair – The...
Dr. Klaus Fuchs – “Brilliant mind. Nasty person.” https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/22160552/news-for-week-of-march-4-19501.mp3 Download For $1.99: - March 4, 1950 - Voices...
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March 22, 1964 – Trench Life During The War On Poverty – Sargent Shriver
The War On Poverty in 1964 – Not just the inner cities. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/22155845/sargent-shriver-meet-the-press-march-23-1964.mp3 This day in 1964 (a...
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March 26, 1961 – Soapy Goes To Africa – Fact-Finding In A Region Roiling In...
. . .something about our Foreign Policyand Africa. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/22155756/meet-the-press-g-mennen-williams-march-26-1961.mp3 Download For $1.99: - March...
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April 26, 1964 – LBJ: “Making A Step Toward A Peaceful World”– New York...
LBJ and the World: Anticipating the sigh of relief. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/22154649/news-for-april-26-1964.mp3 [laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”8028″...
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May 13, 1951 – War In Korea – Getting Ready For the Spring Offensive –
Generals Ridgeway and van Fleet – girding up for another offensive from the North. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/22154044/news-for-week-ending-may-13th-1951.mp3 Voices And...
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Bob Dylan On The Radio – 1962 – Past Daily Soundbooth: Birthday Edition
Bob Dylan turns 80 on May 24th . . . no, that’s impossible. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/22153610/bob-dylan-broadside-show-may-1962.mp3 After devoting too many posts the...
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Bob Newhart – Live At The Hollywood Bowl – 1961 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
Bob Newhart – American institution. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/22153227/bob-newhart-hollywood-bowl-1961.mp3 Comic icons this weekend. The legendary Bob Newhart, live at...
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June 14, 1962 – JFK And The Peace Corps – New Frontier Continued.
The Peace Corps: It was the “ask what you can do for your country” part of the program. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/22152756/jfk-peace-corps-qa-june-14-1962.mp3 This day...
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July 7, 1964 – A Word from RFK – Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s News...
Robert F. Kennedy – during his tenure as Attorney General. What we needed in the country and the world was to face up to problems....
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July 19, 1965 – Farewell To Adlai – Vietnam Escalates
Adlai Stevenson: Remembering the tireless and eloquent Statesman. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/22151309/news-for-july-19-1965.mp3 [laterpay_premium_download...
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Duke Ellington – Live At Basin Street, New York City – 1956 – Past Daily...
Duke Ellington: The one and only. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/22165938/duke-ellington-live-at-basin-street-1956.mp3 Duke Ellington Live at Basin Street – 1956 Another...
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August 5, 1962 – Marilyn Monroe: Fame Is Fickle – Death Of An Icon.
Marilyn Monroe: Fifty-nine years ago today . . . https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/22150159/marilyn-monroe-fame-is-fickle-august-5-1962.mp3 Marilyn Monroe: Fame Is Fickle –...
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TV News In 1974 – Terrible then – Bliss By Comparison? Past Daily Reference...
The question is – has it always been bad. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/22165502/critique-of-evening-news-shows-1974.mp3 Critique of Evening News Shows-1974 – Gordon Skene...
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New Year’s Eve 1957 – Teddy Wilson, Eddie Heywood And Duke Ellington – Past...
Eddie Heywood – sandwiched between Teddy Wilson and Duke Ellington, he still had something to say....
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Fran Warren (With Claude Thornhill And His Orch.) – 1947 – Nights At The...
Fran Warren – Transitioning from the Big Band Era to become a Pop music staple in the 1950’s....
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March 14, 1962 – A JFK Press Conference – From Taxes To Vietnam And A Brother...
An increasingly uncertain world. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/22160130/jfk-press-conference-march-14-1962.mp3 – JFK Press Conference – March 14, 1962 – On this day in...
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Going The Red Carpet Route – A Premier At Grauman’s In 1946 – Past Daily Pop...
Hollywood and Half-Measures had nothing to do with each other then. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/22160946/anna-and-the-king-of-siam-opening-1946.mp3 KFWB – Anna And The...
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