"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Pablo Neruda – Interview/Poetry reading – Comment – September 5, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Considered by many to be one of the Greatest Poets of the 20th century in any language, Pablo Neruda was especially popular…
– Culture In America: An Assessment – 1960 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Culture in America, circa 1960. Even 62 years ago, we were starting to ask questions about our accomplishments as a people – what…
When you consider that Jean Shepherd was more closely associated with the Beat Generation poets than say, Norman Rockwell, the notion that A Christmas Story, the movie that has become a staple in our seasonal culture diet, is something of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Readers Almanac – A Talk With Kurt Vonnegut – January 28, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection I was reminded that today (April 11) marks the 7th anniversary of the passing…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Starting off the weekend with the inimitable Koko Taylor, live in Bordeaux, France on November 15, 1993. The whole thing (or about an hours worth) recorded live from the stage…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Beatles – Christmas 1967 As long as we’re in a celebratory mood, you can’t have Christmas without this one – Christmas Time Is Here Again, from the Beatles Fanclub release of 1967. A…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 15 Happy Holiday A word from Peggy Lee tonight. From her 1965 Happy Holiday album for Capitol Records, a track featuring the band of Sid Feller and a swinging rendition of, what else?…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Ramsey Lewis Trio – Merry Christmas Baby Continuing in our “Cool Yule” vein tonight with a contribution from The Ramsey Lewis Trio and a track from their 1961 album The Sounds Of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Balancing Act – Green Pants and Finance – 1987 Roaring on with our non-Traditional week of Christmas Tunes. The Balancing Act were one of those under appreciated and under-noticed bands of the…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Timbuk 3 – All I Want For Christmas – 1987 Continuing our romp through non-traditional Christmas tunes, here is Timbuk 3’s contribution; All I Want For Christmas. Less domestic mayhem-oriented than last…