"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
February 13, 1942 – NBC Blue Network – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 13, 1942 – War on all fronts this day. The news from Singapore was silence – nothing new since the previous days reports of fighting and evacuations of non-essentials from the...
Al Jarreau In concert from Hamburg, Germany – October 17, 1975 – NDR Germany More bad news – this time, the passing of Al Jarreau, who died suddenly after announcing his retirement from touring only two weeks earlier. Winner of a string of Grammys, Jarreau crossed over into numerous genres...
Count Basie and his Orchestra featuring Lambert, Hendricks & Ross – live at Juan-les-Pins Festival – July 20, 1961 – Radio France – The immortal Count Basie orchestra this week, cooking up a storm at the 1961 Juan-les-Pins Festival in Antibes, France and captured for posterity by the ORTF and...
Aretha Franklin – in concert from Stockholm – May 2, 1968 – Sveriges Radio – Hearing the news earlier this week of Aretha Franklin’s retirement from singing certainly brought back a flood of impressions and feelings over the years of just what an astonishing and national treasure Aretha Franklin is....
World of Twist – in Session for John Peel – June 25, 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – World Of Twist to end the week. A band from Sheffield who added a jolt to Madchester, World Of Twist were influential and had many fans. Unfortunately, it didn’t translate into record...
February 10, 1999 – BBC World Service Newshour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 10, 1999 – A day of International news. From Zimbabwe came news that the government of Robert Mugabe was overruled by the courts over the confiscation of many, but not all farms owned by Whites....
Shonen Knife – in session for John Peel – September 1, 1992 – BBC Radio 1 – Shonen Knife tonight. A Japanese Pop-Punk band, around since 1981, who were hugely influenced by 60s girl groups and The Ramones and they had a pretty solid following in their native Japan as...
Spiro Agnew – Attorney General Elliot Richardson Press Conference – October 11, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A little less than a year before Richard Nixon left office over the Watergate scandal, vice-President Spiro Agnew left office under a cloud of bribery, income tax evasion and influence peddling....
February 9, 1971. If you lived in Los Angeles this day, all that was on your mind was the earthquake that tossed you out of bed around 6 in the morning, the aftershocks that continued to rumble all day and into the night. No lights, no gas, no phones –...
All About Eve – live in Bonn, Germany – 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – All About Eve tonight. Taking another side-trip into Ethereal-Wave with a liberal dose of Shoegaze, a dollop of Alternative and the essence of Bay-Area 60s Psych. With four studio albums during their tenure (1984-1993),...
