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Pyncher – Manchester – 2026 – Past Daily Saturday Brunch
4w agoTap to summarizePyncher – things are looking up. New faces on the horizon this weekend. Pyncher, recorded and broadcast live at the BBC 6 Music Festival in Manchester on March 25th of this year. Pyncher got together in 2020, weathering the Pandemic lockdown and put the imposed downtime rehearsing, composing – having imaginary gigs because they couldn’t play any real ones until the restrictions were lifted and emerged as one of the bands to keep a watch on, especially by BBC 6 Music, who called them “electrifying” and helped spread enthusiastic word-of-mouth.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(126); }); Playing a lot of local, small-venue gigs, they built up a fan following, so this BBC 6 Music Festival is, more or less a mass introduction to Pyncher. So far, they have a debut album, which came out in October of last year and a string of singles to help get feet firmly planted on the ground. If you want to hear more from Pyncher, I would gladly point you in the direction where you can grab the album, as well as singles here: https://amzn.to/4n5FMnHezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(134); }); In the meantime, crank it up and keep your head down. paypal.Buttons({ style: { shape: 'rect', color: 'gold', layout: 'vertical', label: 'subscribe' }, createSubscription: function(data, actions) { return actions.subscription.create({ /* Creates the subscription */ plan_id: 'P-9BC3577606962721AMLMY5BA', quantity: 1 // The quantity of the product for a subscription }); }, onApprove: function(data, actions) { alert(data.subscriptionID); // You can add optional success message for the subscriber here } }).render('#paypal-button-container-P-9BC3577606962721AMLMY5BA'); // Renders the PayPal button The post Pyncher – Manchester – 2026 – Past Daily Saturday Brunch appeared first on Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History And Music.
Transcribe →Television Gets The Green Light – 1952 – Past Daily Weekend Reference Room.
4w agoTap to summarizeTelevision – land of big promises The announcement by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1952 reopening and expanding television broadcast frequencies marked a pivotal turning point in American media history. Known formally as part of the Sixth Report and Order, the decision ended a four-year “freeze” on new television station licenses that had been imposed in 1948. During that freeze, the FCC had paused expansion to resolve technical issues such as signal interference and to develop a coherent national allocation plan. By 1952, the Commission was ready to move forward, and the results reshaped American society in profound and lasting ways.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(126); }); The most immediate effect of the FCC’s decision was a dramatic expansion in the number of television stations across the United States. Prior to the freeze, television had been largely concentrated in major metropolitan areas, leaving vast portions of the country—particularly rural regions—without access. The Sixth Report and Order allocated new channels in both the Very High Frequency (VHF) and Ultra High Frequency (UHF) bands, allowing smaller cities and towns to establish local stations. This democratization of access transformed television from an urban novelty into a truly national medium. As television sets became more affordable and widely available in the early 1950s, the expansion of broadcasting created a shared cultural experience on an unprecedented scale. Americans across different regions could watch the same programs, from news broadcasts to entertainment shows, fostering a new sense of national identity. Events such as political conventions, presidential addresses, and major sporting contests reached millions simultaneously, reinforcing television’s role as a unifying force.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(134); }); Economically, the FCC’s decision stimulated rapid growth in several industries. The demand for television sets surged, benefiting manufacturers and retailers. Advertising also underwent a revolution, as businesses quickly recognized television’s power to reach mass audiences. This led to the rise of national advertising campaigns and helped establish television as the dominant medium for commercial messaging by the late 1950s. The expansion also created jobs in broadcasting, production, and related technical fields, contributing to postwar economic prosperity. However, the FCC’s plan was not without its complications. The introduction of UHF channels, while intended to increase capacity, often placed new stations at a disadvantage. Many early television sets were not equipped to receive UHF signals without additional converters, limiting audience reach and advertising revenue for these stations. As a result, a disparity developed between established VHF stations and newer UHF broadcasters, shaping competitive dynamics in the industry for years to come.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(135); }); Socially and culturally, the expansion of television had both positive and negative consequences. On one hand, it brought educational programming, news, and entertainment into American homes, broadening horizons and increasing access to information. On the other hand, critics worried about the homogenizing effect of national programming and the growing influence of commercial interests on content. Concerns also emerged about television’s impact on family life, leisure habits, and the consumption of passive entertainment. Was the FCC’s 1952 decision a good thing? On balance, it was. While it introduced challenges—particularly regarding UHF inequities and the commercialization of content—it laid the foundation for television’s role as a central institution in American life. The expansion enabled greater access, fostered economic growth, and helped create a shared cultural framework during a period of rapid social change.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(136); }); In retrospect, the FCC’s reopening of television frequencies was not merely a technical adjustment but a transformative moment. It accelerated the rise of television as the dominant medium of the twentieth century, shaping how Americans saw the world—and themselves—for generations to come. 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Transcribe →Are Our Schoolbooks Dangerous? – 1941 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
4w agoTap to summarizeIn the world of Paranoia there was plenty to go around. https://e2wyeghodh5.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/22151344/americas-town-hall-schoolbooks-1941.mp3 American Forum of The Air – Are Our Schoolbooks Dangerous? 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collectionezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(126); }); As a society, are we a fearful people? Yes. Paranoid? Yes. Vengeful? Yes. Civil? No. Has it always been that way? I’m afraid to say, yes.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(134); }); Of course, that’s painting the picture with too wide a brush – we’re not all that way, in fact a lot of us aren’t. But our society is based on so much fear and paranoia it makes you wonder just what it is that keeps us together, rather than falling apart and into armed camps. Throughout our history there have always been the ominous, malignant, terrifying “them” to contend with. Nazi’s, Communists, extremists from both ends of the spectrum. And somehow that fear of the great ominous unknown has been a unifying factor. From the 1930s to the 1990s it was the threat of Communism. In the 1930s and 40s it was the threat of Nazism. Today it’s the threat of terrorism in the form of Muslim extremists, the threat of people who act, dress and look a different way; a fear of other races.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(135); }); And all this fear makes us act in strange and often dangerous ways and react to situations and other people we feel to be some sort of threat. Lately it has taken on expressions of hate and words of incivility (well . . .that’s no surprise – name calling is our metier). The end result is the same – isolation and all-encompassing fear. In 1941 the ominous danger came, at least in one form, by way of our schools – or at least it was claimed to be.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(136); }); In 1941 the issue was whether or not we were allowing our children to be brainwashed by Communist influences creeping into our textbooks. Subtle turns of phrase that were construed to be code words for the hoards of Bolsheviks braced to storm our shores. LIkewise, we were fearful every other person walking the streets was a Nazi sympathizer, or Fifth Columnist as the popular phrase went. And so, in an attempt at a civil discussion and airing of concerns, NBC Radio by way of its Americas Town Hall program, aired shortly before our entry into World War 2, posed the question “Are Our Schoolbooks Dangerous?”. The discussion is interesting and was prefaced by the moderator as a wish for some cool-headed discourse and lack of name-calling on the parts of the participants and the audience. For the most part it was successful.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(137); }); Perhaps the rules of engagement have changed – the fear however, has not. And even in 1941 we were a fearful, paranoid, vengeful bunch. Some things will never change, unless the default switches are changed. That’s the work part. Here is that discussion as aired in 1941. paypal.Buttons({ style: { shape: 'rect', color: 'gold', layout: 'vertical', label: 'subscribe' }, createSubscription: function(data, actions) { return actions.subscription.create({ /* Creates the subscription */ plan_id: 'P-9BC3577606962721AMLMY5BA', quantity: 1 // The quantity of the product for a subscription }); }, onApprove: function(data, actions) { alert(data.subscriptionID); // You can add optional success message for the subscriber here } }).render('#paypal-button-container-P-9BC3577606962721AMLMY5BA'); // Renders the PayPal button The post Are Our Schoolbooks Dangerous? – 1941 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room appeared first on Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History And Music.
Transcribe →The Human League – Live At Festival Of Fools, Amsterdam – 1980 – Past Daily Night Session
4w agoTap to summarizeThe Human League – the breakthrough was still a couple years off – but it was a breakthrough that lasted.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(126); }); https://e2wyeghodh5.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/26220251/The-Human-League-Live-at-Festival-of-Fools-Amsterdam-10-June-1980.mp3 The Human League – Live At Festival Of Fools, Amsterdam – June 10, 1980 – Flip Martian Collection – Live and Loud! Become a Patron! The Human League in one of their early, pre-breakthrough concerts – recorded at The Festival of Fools in Amsterdam on June 10, 1980 by VPRO in Holland and brought back from the technical dead by Flip Martian for his website Live And Loud! – which is a great site and offers concerts from bands either before they made it or have not gotten the recognition they deserve – in other words, one of those websites that do a public service and are keepers of the flame for Rock – check out his site: Live And Loud!ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(134); }); On to The Human League – The Human League were formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their third album Dare in 1981. The album contained four hit singles, including the UK/US number one hit “Don’t You Want Me.” The band received the Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982. Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, including “Mirror Man,” “(Keep Feeling) Fascination,” “The Lebanon,” “Human” (a US No. 1) and “Tell Me When.” The only constant band member since 1977 has been lead singer and songwriter Philip Oakey. Keyboard players Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh both left the band in 1980 to form Heaven 17. Under Oakey’s leadership, the Human League then evolved into a commercially successful New Pop band with a new line-up including female vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley. Since the mid-1990s, the band has essentially been a trio of Oakey, Catherall and Sulley with various sidemen.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(135); }); Since 1978, the Human League have released nine studio albums, two remix albums, one live album, six EPs, 30 singles and several compilation albums. They have had five albums and eight singles in the UK Top 10 and had sold more than 20 million records worldwide by 2010. As an early techno-pop act who received extensive MTV airplay they are regarded as one of the leading artists of the 1980s Second British Invasion of the US. So as a reminder of their formative years, and that the big break was just around the corner, crank this one up and have a listen to 1980 from the Festival of Fools in Amsterdam.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(136); }); If you want to hear more of  The Human League, click on the link and load up! https://amzn.to/4n1lNGE The post The Human League – Live At Festival Of Fools, Amsterdam – 1980 – Past Daily Night Session appeared first on Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History And Music.
Transcribe →Tame Impala – Ferropolis – 2016 – Past Daily Lunchroom
May 1Tap to summarizeTame Impala – melted minds unite! Tame Impala for a Friday afternoon Lunch – recorded at the 2016 Melt Festival in Ferropolis, Gräfenhainichen, Germany on July 15, 2016 by the ever-present West German Radio.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(126); }); Tame Impala’s music is heavily influenced by late 1960s and early 1970s psychedelic rock. Parker has stated that he has a “fetish for extremely sugary pop music” from such artists as Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue. Parker also enjoys “fucked-up explosive cosmic music” in the vein of The Flaming Lips, with whom Tame Impala collaborated on the track “Children of the Moon”; the song appeared on the band’s 2012 collaborative album The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. Combining these two things, the shoegaze band My Bloody Valentine have influenced Parker’s music with their contrasting mix of abrasive guitars and ethereal melodies. He has “always been in love with the wall of sound as employed by My Bloody Valentine” and tries to capture the same “melancholy, dreamy feel” with Tame Impala.  Parker has elaborated on achieving a similar sonic balance in his own music: “If I was singing, I wouldn’t be able to match the tone of the instruments, which is really crunchy. The instruments are quite sonically brutal, but the voice is really soft, and I think that kind of resonates with people. It’s kind of like My Bloody Valentine, where it’s really brutal sounding, but kind of beautiful at the same time”. Tame Impala live drummer Jay Watson has described Parker’s music as incorporating a “shoegaze-y guitar sound, but not played in a shoegazey manner”.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(134); }); Electronic music is another significant influence on Tame Impala’s music. Parker aims to incorporate the structure of electronic music into rock instrumentation: “The way we do music, it’s organic, but it’s meant to be quite repetitive and hypnotic, almost in a kind of electronic nature. Using our playing as though it was a living sample”. A sound featured prominently on Innerspeaker is a pitch-shifted guitar tone that many mistook for a synth. Parker has explained his reasoning for such production choices: “I had a few obsessions when recording Innerspeaker. One was to make the guitars sound like synths and drums sound like drum samples and pretty much anything except guitars and drums. I’m obsessed with confusing people as to the origin of a sound.”He has described his dream collaboration as “probably [being] someone really, really kind of fucked up”, citing the electronic artists Aphex Twin and Squarepusher as examples: “You know, someone that would like scare me, but I’d be able to see how they do all their really insanely headcase stuff and I’d be able to learn from it”. Parker was inspired to take up various creative endeavours at a young age: “I used to draw a lot when I was very young, and I used to get the most immense feeling of satisfaction from finishing a picture and looking back at it, even though I wasn’t actually that good. When I started playing music, I got the same feeling from making a song, even if it was just a few noises or drum patterns put together. It was all about the buzz from making something from nothing. Music always affected me greatly as a listener anyway, usually from listening to music in my dad’s car or listening to him play guitar”.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(135); }); Lo-fi music is also a favourite of Parker’s, and he incorporated it heavily in the early days of Tame Impala, heard prominently on the Tame Impala EP. With the release of Innerspeaker, Parker went for a different approach to a lo-fi sound, aiming more for a more cosmic and sonic wall of sound, helped by mixer Dave Fridmann. Parker explained: “It sounds more cohesive, like an organism. It has a different emotion to it; it brings out a different feeling when it’s absolutely blaring at you. I love that sound.” Parker has also stated that Supertramp, one of his favourite bands, are a major influence on the musical style of Tame Impala. Despite their difference in sound, he feels he is always somewhat “channeling Supertramp”. He has said that listening to the Bee Gees on mushrooms inspired him to change the sound of the music he was making on Currents.<div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-136" da...
Transcribe →May 1, 2001 – Manila: 20,000 Hit The Streets – America On The Verge Of An Energy Crisis – May Day Protests Heat Up.
May 1Tap to summarizeManila finally calming down – the rest of the world, not so much.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(126); }); May 1st starting off with a bang in 2001 – starting with news from Manila. Two police officers and a protester died today when thousands of supporters of deposed president Joseph Estrada marched through central Manila and tried to break down the gates of the presidential palace. After troops with tanks took control of the area this morning, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo emerged from the besieged palace and accused unidentified political opponents of trying to oust her. “The demonstrations … were funded by people with a political agenda. It is clear that their goal is to bring down the legitimate government,” she said on national television.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(134); }); Earlier, Estrada’s son Jinggoy said by telephone that his father was appealing to his supporters to remain calm. Arroyo said two police officers were dead and shops and homes had been looted. Reuters photographer Bobby Ranoco said one protester’s face “had been blown apart” by a gunshot. Several people were wounded during the hot, sultry night after hours of skirmishes around the building, which is defended by high walls on three sides, and a river on the other. Two Manila hospitals reported 16 total injuries, eight by bullets, mainly to the legs, and at least two police hit by rocks. Witnesses said police and soldiers had persistently fired warning shots and sent tear gas rounds into the crowd of around 20,000 people.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(135); }); And previewing the Bush administration’s energy strategy, Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday downplayed conservation as a solution to the nation’s power problems, outlining a policy that relies instead on increasing supplies of nuclear power, oil, and natural gas. Cheney, who is heading the White House energy task force that is expected to report to President Bush this month, also said the administration would continue to push for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In a speech to the Associated Press in Toronto, the vice president praised some technological approaches to energy typically embraced by environmentalists, including fuel-efficient cars and low-power computer screens. But in mapping out the Bush plan, Cheney backed away from earlier signs that the administration would emphasize conservation in its effort to fix the energy crunch. And he did little to calm environmental activists who fear that the new energy plan will lopsidedly advocate a search for new sources of energy rather than ways to preserve current supplies. “Some groups are suggesting that government step in to force Americans to consume less energy, as if we could simply conserve or ration our way out of the : situation we’re in,” Cheney said. But, he continued: “To speak exclusively of conservation is to duck the tough issues. Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.”.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(136); }); Finally – MAY Day protest rallies swept cities around the world, with hundreds detained in demonstrations ranging from skirmishes with anti-capitalists against global trade to traditional demands for workers’ rights. German, water police fired cannon on teargas leftists in Berlin and Frankfurt, police arrested 40 people in Switzerland’s financial capital of Zurich and thousands of demonstrators paralyzed London’s main shopping area on Oxford Street in a day-long confrontation. Protesters against economic globalisation multinational corporations wield too much power over people’s lives, even to the point of coercing democratically-elected governments. Australia: Police fought running battles with thousands of anti-globalization protesters in cities across the country, with Sydney and Brisbane worst hit. Thirty Sydney police officers were injured, two seriously, and 33 people arrested as riot police tried to disperse a crowd blocking the stock exchange entrance. Protesters said at least 30 of their number were injured. In Brisbane, 45 people were arrested as 600 demonstrators tried to storm stock exchange. In Perth, mounted police charged 300 demonstrators after scuffles at the stock exchange and six people were charged. In Melbourne, 2,000 activists targeted big corporations, including McDonalds and Nike, threatening to storm a McDonalds restaurant and spraying it with graffiti. Germany: Anarchists erected blazing barricades and pelted police with stones and bottles in Berlin but a demonstration by about 1,000 neo-Nazis went off peacefully. Leftist protesters were angered by a court decision to ban their demonstration while a march by the far-right NPD was allowed go ahead.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(137); }); And that’s just a sample of what went on, this May 1st in 2002 as presented by the BBC World Service World Briefing program. ...
Transcribe →The Orb Featuring Steve Hillage – Brixton 1991 – Past Daily Night Session
May 1Tap to summarizeSteve Hillage – Adding his two cents to an already lush soundscape. https://e2wyeghodh5.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/22044826/The-Orb-w-Steve-Hillage-live-at-The-Fridge-Brixton-1991-Sessions-from-Low-and-Bonnie-Prince-Billy.mp3 The Orb featuring Steve Hillage – live at The Fridge, Brixton – 1991 – BBC Radio 1ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(126); }); Space merchants The Orb tonight, featuring former Gong founding member and all-around leading light of the Canterbury scene, Steve Hillage as guest in what promises to be a 25 minute sonic adventure, and it was recorded by the venerable BBC Radio 1 for their in-concert series, at The Fridge in Brixton in 1991. It’s difficult to put into words what exactly The Orb are all about – suffice to say they are experimental. And, in continuing the tradition, as it was first laid down by Daevid Allen‘s Gong, they are not predictable. In this concert, it is, for all intents and purposes, a single song that goes on a little less than 30 minutes. But in that time they have painted an exquisite soundscape, coupled with montage voices. They actually got together not that long ago – 1988. But their influences go far back, to the early 70s and beyond, to some of the early electronic experiments. Bringing it all up to date, The Orb have pioneered Ambient House, a precursor to EDM (but without the dance), and their accompanying light add to the ethereal quality of their performances. And although The Orb consists of 2 to 3 members, only one, Alex Paterson has been the constant throughout their history.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(134); }); This concert, from 1991 comes just before the peak of their commercial success, which they achieved in 1992 when their albums The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld and U.F.Orb both shot to #1 on the British charts. Over the years since, The Orb have experimented with variations on their Ambient form, going into Techno and have featured guest appearances by a number of artists. The UK critics have always been split regarding their reviews of the band. They have, however gotten rave reviews from American press, notably Rolling Stone who praised the band for their “contrast of chaos and euphony”. If you aren’t familiar with the work of The Orb, or are familiar with Steve Hillage and not the Orb, or the other way around, give this one a listen.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(135); }); Crank it up and lay down. paypal.Buttons({ style: { shape: 'rect', color: 'gold', layout: 'vertical', label: 'subscribe' }, createSubscription: function(data, actions) { return actions.subscription.create({ /* Creates the subscription */ plan_id: 'P-9BC3577606962721AMLMY5BA', quantity: 1 // The quantity of the product for a subscription }); }, onApprove: function(data, actions) { alert(data.subscriptionID); // You can add optional success message for the subscriber here } }).render('#paypal-button-container-P-9BC3577606962721AMLMY5BA'); // Renders the PayPal button The post The Orb Featuring Steve Hillage – Brixton 1991 – Past Daily Night Session appeared first on Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History And Music.
Transcribe →April 30, 1983 – Poland Braces For May Day – Spring Weather Misery – Muddy Waters And George Balanchine Have Passed.
Apr 30Tap to summarizeWarsaw – nerves in Poland before May Day. What it was looking like, this last day of April in 1983:ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(126); }); From Poland – Police, in Gdansk, summoned three aides of Lech Walesa today, maintaining their pressure on the Solidarity leader on the eve of anti-government demonstrations planned for May Day by his outlawed union federation. Walesa, reached by telephone at his Gdansk apartment, said his friend and bodyguard, Henryk Mazur, was called this morning to the police station. Police questioned Mazur for about five hours Friday. Walesa’s secretary, Bozena Rybicka, was summoned for the fourth time in three days, but she was seeing her doctor and did not go. Her brother Aram, who also works for Walesa, was taken in by police, Piotr Konopka, Walesa’s spokesman, called Friday’s interrogations “harrassment” by the government. Meanwhile, a mysterious radio announcer claiming to speak for Solidarity, urged Poles on Friday to stay Day and ignore a call by the labor federation for protests against the Communist government. It was impossible for reporters to determine whether the three-minute broadcast was from Solidarity or a government ruse. The government has launched a campaign in Poland’s official news media to defuse the planned demonstrations, and has detained members of Solidarity in Poland in recent weeks. Underground leaders of Solidarity, with Walesa’s tacit endorsement, have called on people to boycott the traditional Communist parades and stage unofficial rallies.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(134); }); Walesa, 39, has not revealed his plans for Sunday. Contacted at his Gdansk home Friday night, Walesa said: “At this point I have nothing to say on that subject.’. Meanwhile – A tornado, part of a broad system of thunderstorms that rolled across the nation’s midsection, cut through Springfield, Mo., in g an estimated 100 homes, injuring 17 people and leaving one person dead, officials said today. Storms Friday also soaked parts of Missouri and Kentucky with more than 4 inches of rain, and drowned a Missouri woman when she was washed into a swollen creek, authorities said. An unidentified girl, believed to be a teenager, died in Springfield when she was thrown from a car and another passenger was seriously injured. The vehicle was caught in the tornado that spun through the southwestern Missouri city of 120,000 people, police said. The twister scissored a path 1.5 miles long quarter-mile wide across the city, destroying at least 100 homes and damaging another 200 dwellings, Mayor George Scruggs said early today. At least 16 people suffered minor injuries, Scruggs said.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(135); }); Muddy Waters, the blues singer and guitarist who brought his brand of music from the Mississippi Delta to the urban north and to worldwide popularity, died today at age 68. Waters died in his sleep of cardiac arrest at 2:17 a.m. at his home in the Chicago suburb of Westmont, according to a statement from his manager, Scott Cameron. Waters, the son of a sharecropper, was born McKinley Morganfield on April 4, 1915, in Rolling Fork, Miss. He picked up his nickname in his early days playing at fish fries and other social gatherings in his hometown. And finally – George Balanchine, perhaps the greatest choreographer of the 20th century and the founder of the New York City Ballet, died today of pneumonia at age 79. Born in czarist Russia, he left his native country in 1923 to tour Europe as a dancer. About 10 years he arrived in the United States, where he founded the ballet company. He ran the company until this year when Peter Martins, the Danish ballet star, took over as director. Balanchine was named director emeritus.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(136); }); Balanchine died at 4:27 a.m. at Roosevelt Hospital, hospital spokeswoman Bernie Wisneski said. He had been admitted to Roosevelt about six months ago with neurological problems that gave him balance problems. The exact cause of death was bilateral pneumonia, Wisneski said. And while Poland was holding it’s breath, that’s just a slice of what happened, April 30, 1983 as reported by CBS Radio News. paypal.Buttons({ style: { shape: 'rect', color: 'gold', layout: 'vertical', label: 'subscribe' }, createSubscription: function(data, actions) { return actions.subscription.create({ /* Creates the subscription */ plan_id: 'P-9BC3577606962721AMLMY5BA', quantity: 1 // The quantity of the product for a subscription }); }, onApprove: function(data, actions) { alert(data.subscriptionID); // You can add optional success message for the subscriber here } }).render('#paypal-button-container-P-9BC3577606962721AMLMY5BA'); // Renders the PayPal button The post April 30, 1983 – Poland Braces For May Day – Spring Weather Misery – Muddy Waters And George Balanchine Have Passed...
Transcribe →Can In Concert From Poitiers – 1976 – Past Daily Lunchroom
Apr 30Tap to summarizeCan – one of the most unabashedly influential bands of the 70s – that most people (in America) never heard of. https://e2wyeghodh5.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/07122849/Can-Live-in-Poitiers-France-March-6-1976.mp3 Can – In Concert from Poitiers, France – June 3, 1976 –ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(126); }); Can this afternoon; a perennial favorite and one of the bands that took the 70s to new and interesting places, in a decade fairly overflowing with new ideas. Whose influence has been felt and acknowledged for decades after. Sadly pigeonholed as part of the Krautrock genre, Can were a lot more than that. Experimental and heavily influenced by German electronic music of the 1960s avant-garde, Can struck out; weaving electronics with progressive Rock and Psychedelia into one impressive entity, setting the stage to became pioneers in a genre of music that left its mark decades later and with countless bands.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(134); }); Although they were not that well known outside of Europe – almost totally unknown in the States, despite support from their label, United Artists, early on. Can came along around the same time as Amon Düul II, which probably accounted for the Krautrock misnomer. And with not a whole lot of acceptance, particularly from FM radio, Can were left to appeal to the underground – who flocked to them in droves. Their albums sold well via import bins, but got cold-to-lukewarm response from the American press, who lumped them in with the wave of experimental and noise-rock German bands of the early-mid 1970s. This wasn’t the case in Europe, where their early material was very popular, singles were issued and did quite well, establishing the band as a highly regarded and popular entity during this time. This concert, from Poitiers in France in June of 1976, comes at a time when they were getting away from raw experimentation and getting into an almost hybrid of electronic-Funk and Pyschedelia. Their milestone album Soon Over Babaluma was a departure from their earlier material, and would be the last album via United Artists, become signing to Virgin. Many considered this to be their most commercial period, with their original lead vocalist Damo Suzuki having left the band in 1973 to become a Jehovahs Witness.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(135); }); If you aren’t familiar with Can, you really need to sit down with this one and check it out. If you’re fan of Radiohead, Massive Attack and many of the other bands currently around, you will find much of Can’s influence in their music. If you are familiar, this is a great sounding concert.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(136); }); Enjoy. paypal.Buttons({ style: { shape: 'rect', color: 'gold', layout: 'vertical', label: 'subscribe' }, createSubscription: function(data, actions) { return actions.subscription.create({ /* Creates the subscription */ plan_id: 'P-9BC3577606962721AMLMY5BA', quantity: 1 // The quantity of the product for a subscription }); }, onApprove: function(data, actions) { alert(data.subscriptionID); // You can add optional success message for the subscriber here } }).render('#paypal-button-container-P-9BC3577606962721AMLMY5BA'); // Renders the PayPal button The post Can In Concert From Poitiers – 1976 – Past Daily Lunchroom appeared first on Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History And Music.
Transcribe →April 30, 1979 – Capitol Hill: A Question Of Ethics – A Hotbed Of Trade
Apr 30Tap to summarizeSen. Herman Talmadge – a lot of “say what?” going on. https://e2wyeghodh5.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/22154526/news-for-april-30-1979.mp3 Never any shortage of scandal where Capitol Hill is concerned, and this April 30th in 1979 was no different. The Senate Ethics Committee was getting ready to hold hearings on violations by Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge and abuses of power, campaign funds and a file cabinet full of other embarrassments. Even before the hearings were underway, there were some  in the Senate pondering censure of Talmadge, the first such move since 1967. Still, witnesses were lined up, including one very vengeful ex-wife who promised she was going to ruin his career. Who needs soap operas?ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(126); }); Meanwhile, the White House was readying for a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Ohira and the inevitable hot-button topic of Trade. Some on Capitol Hill threatened a Trade Barrier War if Japan didn’t lighten up on their policy of prohibiting competitive trade with American goods. President Carter was scheduled to give a News Conference later on in the day.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(134); }); The long awaited arrival of Soviet Jews in Israel finally became a reality as 7 former dissidents got off the plane in Tel-Aviv. The first Israeli-flagged ship sailed into the Suez Canal; the first time an event like this took place. Further evidence relations were warming between Cairo and Tel-Aviv. But Iran took a different tack and severed diplomatic relations with Egypt in retaliation. Seems you just can’t please everybody.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(135); }); Back home – a Teamster Vote to settle the long Steel Haulers Strike was getting ready to take place. In Ecuador, elections were held and it seems the Military-backed Junta were on their way out.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(136); }); And the Red River was flooding its banks in Winnipeg, sending flood waters and threats of destruction each hour. All that, and a whole lot more via this edition of The CBS World News Roundup for April 30, 1979. Nobody ever said history was dull – not by a long shot.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(137); }); paypal.Buttons({ style: { shape: 'rect', color: 'gold', layout: 'vertical', label: 'subscribe' }, createSubscription: function(data, actions) { return actions.subscription.create({ /* Creates the subscription */ plan_id: 'P-9BC3577606962721AMLMY5BA', quantity: 1 // The quantity of the product for a subscription }); }, onApprove: function(data, actions) { alert(data.subscriptionID); // You can add optional success message for the subscriber here } }).render('#paypal-button-container-P-9BC3577606962721AMLMY5BA'); // Renders the PayPal button The post April 30, 1979 – Capitol Hill: A Question Of Ethics – A Hotbed Of Trade appeared first on Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History And Music.
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