"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Another recording from the 1949 Besancon Festival. This week, a live performance of Florent Schmitt’s La Tragèdie de Salomè featuring the legendary French/Belgian conductor Andrè Cluytens leading the Paris Conservatory Orchestra. Schmitt had slipped a bit in popularity over the…
March 11, 1977 – KTNQ – The Real Don Steele – Rob Frankel Collection – There’s that ONE person. No matter who you are or where you go or how many people like you, think fondly of you, wish they…
KFWB – Anna And The King Of Siam Opening At Grauman’s Chinese Theatre – July 18, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Ironically, the photo above was taken the same time this broadcast was going on. The typical Hollywood Premier.…
Billy Harper Quintet – live in Hamburg – Recorded May 23, 1976 – NDR-Radio, Hamburg – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Billy Harper Quintet this weekend, featuring Everett Hollins on trumpet, Joe Bonner on Piano, Wayne Dockery on bass and…
Something historic from The Hollywood Bowl this weekend with a star-studded cast from the world of Country-Western music via Long Beach station KFOX, which was the big Country station in Southern California in 1963. Johnny Cash, the headliner, was not…
George Olsen And His Music – Sugar Plumb – 1925 – RCA Victor – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Since the Studio/Past Daily Nerve Center has been undergoing renovations, I’ve been stumbling over buried shelves of old 78’s this week –…
March 25, 1942 – News Of The World – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 25, 1942 – Continuing on the heels of the arrival of General Douglas MacArthur to Australia, first reports from NBC Correspondents in Canberra…
Two by The Billy Williams Quartet – MGM Records – Recorded December 1951 – As an addendum to the Charioteers post I did last night. Lead Singer Billy Williams, the man who supplied the high notes, left The Charioteers in…
March 24, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup – Walter Cronkite News and Comment – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 24, 1980 – A day not destined to have a happy ending, but unclear at the time just what…
The Charioteers – Swing For Sale + – 1942 – Standard Transcription Library – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Since this nightly series of music posts goes under the title Nights At The Roundtable (night being that thing at the…