"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– New Year’s Eve – 1957 – NBC Radio – All Star Parade of Bands – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – There was a time New Years Eve meant a world-wide sweep of all the notable Jazz dives, and a…
– ABC Radio News Of The World For 1966 – December 31, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If someone was to attempt to pinpoint exactly when things started to go haywire, they would most likely land on 1966.…
The (English) Beat – live at The Hollywood Palladium – June 1982 – KWST-FM Broadcast – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The (English) Beat in concert, opening for The Clash and part of a five night residency in June, 1982…
– CBS World News Roundup – December 30, 1986 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Only a year earlier, on December 30, 1985, President Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev exchanged warm New Years greetings and hopes for continued progress…
Jefferson Airplane – Live at The Calliope Warehouse – San Francisco Mime Troupe Appeal Party – November 6, 1965 – KSAN-FM – A bit of Rock history tonight. In what was billed as the first Bill Graham production, a fund…
Hallé Orchestra – live from Madrid – Cristian Mandeal, conductor – April 23, 2011 – RNE Radio Clasica – Over to Madrid this week for a live performance with the visiting Hallé Orchestra, led by permanent guest Conductor Cristian Mandeal…
– Voices and Events: 1953 – NBC Radio – Dec. 28, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – 1953; a world crammed with extremes. A war in Korea and an armistice, an inquisition on Capitol Hill and threats of Communist…
– Radio Austria International – Panorama – Romania Revolution – 1989 – The Romanian Revolution started in the city of Timișoara on December 16, as one ethnic Hungarian pastor spoke out against regime policies. This led to massive protests and…
– 1949: Voices And Events For The Year – NBC Radio – December 31, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1949 – a year in the dim-distant past for most of us, but a year that, not unlike the…
– CBS World News Roundup – December 29, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Coming to the frustrating end of a baffling month in a perplexing decade, this December 29th in 1979 was winding up nowhere near hopeful and…