"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Adorable – live at Glastonbury 1993 – BBC Radio 1 – Adorable at Glastonbury in 1993 tonight. Cast in the Alternative/Shoegaze vein, Adorable had a reasonably short life-span. Only together from 1990-1994 before splitting up on stage in Brussels in…
President Eisenhower – address to National Education Association 100th Birthday – April 4, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – President Eisenhower addressed a gathering of the National Education Association, on the occasion of their 100th anniversary in 1957. Some…
February 7, 1984 – CBS World News Roundup + CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 7, 1984 – The news had much to do with being up in the air – on one side of the…
Curve – In Session for John Peel – March 10, 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – Curve to start off the week. In session for John Peel, their first on March 10, 1991. An electronica/shoe-gaze/Dream-Pop/alternative duo consisting of Toni Halliday…
February 6, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 6, 1995 – Baseball Strike news this day. Ironically, February 6, 1995 would have been Baseball legend Babe Ruth‘s 100th birthday. But instead, one would…
Gaby Casadesus – Robert Casadesus: Etudes for Piano – 1939 – ORTF Radio Recording circa 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A very short one this weekend; a little over a minute. But a charming piece nonetheless. Robert…
Bobby Hutcherson Quartet – live in San Francisco – December 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Bobby Hutcherson this weekend. When his passing was announced last August, it brought a flood of tributes and reminiscences from colleagues and critics.…
10 CC live in Mainz, Germany- Rheingoldhalle – April 30, 1980 – SWR3 Radio, Germany – 10CC in concert this week. One of the bigger hit-making bands of the 70s, 10CC had a string of huge hit singles, six Gold…
Black Power – BBC Radio 1 Documentary – 2004 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1968 – the year things came to a head – the year of confrontation and questioning; the year it all changed. The Civil Rights struggle…
February 3, 1988 – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 3, 1988 – and on Capitol Hill, debate was raging back and forth over President Reagan‘s aid package to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Reagan had…