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Newstalgia Pop Chronicles – The Beatniks – 1959 | Newstalgia
Newstalgia Pop Chronicles – The Beatniks – 1959 | Newstalgia. A little 1950′s history of Los Angeles, in a Beat Generation sort of way.
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Weekend Gramophone – Roger Boutry Plays Boutry – 1953 | Newstalgia
Weekend Gramophone – Roger Boutry Plays Boutry – 1953 | Newstalgia. Roger Boutry (6th from left). Rising young star in 1953.
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Slim Gaillard And Arthur Prysock – Live At Birdland – 1952 – Past Daily Downbeat
Slim Gaillard – The man who introduced the world to the word Wowtee. Download: arthur-prysock-slim-gaillard-1952.mp3 Live Jazz from the 1950′s this weekend with a double bill, live from Birdland in New...
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The Non-Conforming American – 1955 – Past Daily Reference Room
In 1955 non-conformity was a big deal. Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Non-Conforming American – March 12, 1955 During the era of the 1950s a gradual, unmistakable undercurrent of social...
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Living On The Edge In 1956 – Past Daily Reference Room
Seems we were melting down in the 1950s. Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Great Challenge – Individual Relationships In A Mass Society -April 22, 1956 By 1956 it would be pretty safe to say...
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Class of ’53 – Teenagers Of The 50s – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
Ponder this: The people in this photo are in their mid-late 70s right now. Click on the link here for Audio Player: [audio...
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Happy Pills – July 8, 1956
In the 1950s, Americans were finding it increasingly difficult to get out of bed in the morning. And with good reason. Click on the link here for Audio Player: American Forum – Happy Pills – July 8,...
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Jean Shepherd Reads Jean Shepherd 1974 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles: Merry...
Jean Shepherd – A Christmas Story has become embedded in our culture. . . .thankfully. Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Jean Shepherd Show – WOR – December 24, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound...
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Vic Chesnutt With Lambchop In Concert At Crossing Border Festival – 1998 –...
Vic Chesnutt – haunting, funny, poignant, occasionally mystical – usually all at once. Click on the link here for Audio Player – Vic Chesnutt with Lambchop – Live At Crossing Border Festival – October...
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Today’s Young Woman – 1953 – A Lecture By Millicent Carey McIntosh – Past...
Oh, those wild women of 1953 . . . . Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio Lecture Hall – Millicent Carey McIntosh -Today’s Young Women – November 14, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection...
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Kai Winding Group With Horace Silver – Live At Birdland – 1952 – Past Daily...
Kai Winding – blowing a few cool ones. Click on the link here for Audio Player – Pete Brown Group – Kai Winding Group – Live from Birdland – September 9, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Back over...
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Newstalgia Pop Chronicles – The Beatniks – 1959 | Newstalgia
Newstalgia Pop Chronicles – The Beatniks – 1959 | Newstalgia. A little 1950′s history of Los Angeles, in a Beat Generation sort of way. The post Newstalgia Pop Chronicles – The Beatniks – 1959 |...
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Who Beat The Beat Generation? 1958 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
By 1958 the mainstream couldn’t wait to sound the death knell for the Beats. Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Open Mind: Who Beat The Beat Generation – Dec. 28, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound...
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Arnett Cobb – Top Flight – 1947 – Past Daily Soundbooth: Shellac Edition
Arnett Cobb – Honkers and Wailers and birth of the cool. Click on the link here for Audio Player – Arnett Cobb and His Orchestra – Top Flight – Apollo #770 – May 13, 1947 Continuing with 78s tonight....
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Lenox School Of Jazz Concert – 1959 – Past Daily Downbeat
Among the notables at the Summit Conference – Kenny Dorham. Click on the link here for Audio Player – Lenox School of Jazz Concert – August 29, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection One of those...
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Dizzy Gillespie – Live In Paris – 1953 – Past Daily Downbeat
Dizzy Gillespie – The man who personified what Louis Armstrong called “Chinese Music“. http://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/DizzyGillespie1953-02-05ParisFrance.mp3 . . . or click on the link...
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Mamie Van Doren Talks About The Beat Generation – 1959 – Past Daily Pop...
Nothing was sacred in the Frantic Fifties. http://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/The-Beat-Generation-Interview-with-Mamie-van-Doren-June-1959.mp3 . . . or click on the link here for Audio...
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The Plague Of Comic Books – 1956 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
Warping young minds, one cel at a time. http://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/New-World-Comic-Books-1956.mp3 . . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – New World: Comic...
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Past Daily’s Spring Fundraiser – Update 12
History can be fun. Day 20 – 10 days left to go and the last full week of our Spring Fundraiser. This is the make-or-break period and we need every penny of support we can if we’re going to get even...
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Lennie Tristano With Lee Konitz And Warne Marsh – Live In Toronto – 1952 –...
Lennie Tristano – a bridge between bop and Free-Jazz, but not without detractors. http://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Lennie-Tristano-live-in-Toronto-1952.mp3 – Lennie Tristano with Lee...
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