"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
To the heavy, cumbersome, oversized and thoroughly enjoyable BBC Transcriptions this week for a concert by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra led by the legendary and amiable Sir Thomas Beecham in an all-Mozart program, recorded on April 28, 1947. Starting off…
I grew up listening to the recordings of Dame Myra Hess on 78’s because as a kid, I wasn’t trusted with the lps in my parents collection and was relegated to the breakable, scratchy 78’s I got at Salvation Army…
The Great Rahsaan Roland Kirk this weekend. From the 1962 Newport Jazz Festival and rebroadcast some years later. Kirk’s musical career spans from 1955 until his death in 1977. He preferred to lead his own bands and rarely performed as…
Roy Orbison – live in Houston – January 1, 1987 – U.S. Tour – band soundboard – The legendary Roy Orbison in concert this weekend. Recorded during his monumental U.S. tour on January 1, 1987. Roy Orbison, who was a…
KYW – Cleveland – Jim Stagg – April 15, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When asked, a lot of people (not everybody) will say their last year of high school was the last good year before everything changed.…
Not to be confused with the UK Psych band of the same name, the U.S. Kaleidoscope were one of the more eclectic assemblages of musicians ever to hit the stage in the 1960s. Incorporating a wild array of Middle Eastern…
February 26, 1945 – Shortwave report and adresses by Gen. MacArthur and Philippine Commonwealth President Sergio Osmeña. – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 26, 1945 – While fighting continued, literally yards from the ceremony, Allied forces General Douglas MacArthur…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7147″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 26, 1996 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] It was Primary season, this February in 1996. And the news for this February 26th was the campaign of Senator Bob…
A band very much around, but in the 1980s they were billed as America’s First Ska band. The Untouchables were from Los Angeles and had come along just at the time the Ska crazy (i.e. The Specials, Selecter, Madness etc.…
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