"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Dolly Mixture – In session for Kid Jensen -October 27, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – Dolly Mixture tonight. American audiences may not know who this band is/was. UK audiences certainly will. Not considered commercially successful or together that long (1978-1984) they have been considered highly influential and were regarded...
Kup’s Show – Irv Kupcinet – Discussion on Student Protests in 1970 – July 14, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Students protesting – a symbol of living in the U.S. in the 1960s during the Vietnam War era. But an expression of the Youth generation all over the...
March 20, 1942 – Alka-Seltzer News Of The World With John W. Vandercook – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 20, 1942. News for this day was a mixed bag of hopefulness and dread. The hopeful news came in the form of General Douglas MacArthur who had managed to relocate...
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