"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– The Blank Tapes – Hallelujah – Sweet On Top Christmas Sampler – From the album Highway 9 – 2014 Ending up the week of homegrown, local and festive, my friend Kristina Benson who runs Sweet On Top handed me…
– A Christmas Sing With Bing – December 24, 1956 – CBS Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Bing Crosby and Christmas – for decades it was an institution. You couldn’t have one without the other. And every…
KYA-San Francisco – Pete McNeal – December 23, 1969 – You used to really like Christmas. But the past few years it’s been the aluminum tree, the beat-up Christmas album your parents got at Sears and a Turkey so dry…
However melancholy one gets over the Christmas season, there’s always the possibility of getting stuck in the middle of a war to consider. Not that we aren’t without one at the moment, or there haven’t been others since the early…
– Mustangs Of The West – 2000 Miles – Blue Elan Records – Keeping the holiday spirit roaring along in the homegrown, local and festive vein, Mustangs Of The West with their new single, a cover of The Pretenders 1983…
On this day in 1957 a brief respite from the onslaught of Christmas shopping and Christmas music to get a report from President Eisenhower on the goings-on at the NATO Summit conference in Paris. President Eisenhower: “For the fifth time…
December 23, 1974 – NBC Nightly News (Audio) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 23, 1974 – Spying, Bombings and Desegregation, along with inflation and the value of gold. A busy news day. Starting with allegations the CIA broke…
– Pat Troise – A Child’s Christmas – ©2021 Pat Troise – Continuing with our Local, homegrown and festive look at Christmas; tonight it’s Pat Troise and her song A Child’s Christmas which she wrote a couple years ago (which…
Günther Wand, Conductor – Ruggiero Ricci – NDR Symphony – Norther German Radio – May 11, 1987 – Legendary violinist Ruggiero Ricci with the North German Radio Symphony led by the equally legendary Günther Wand in a program of music…
Can’t do it without you: Become a Patron! If you happened to be dial-hopping around midnight on December 22nd 1979, one of two things were going on; you were either working late or you were coming home from a Christmas…