"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Whiteout-Time And Again – In session for John Peel – October 11, 1994 – BBC Radio 1. Earlier this year I ran a track by the 90’s Brit-Pop band Whiteout with promises to run some of their session recordings at…
Over to Paris this week for a classic concert from 1976 featuring the French National Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein with Mstislav Rostropovich, cello. The concert was re-broadcast in 1984 as a celebration of the FNO’s then-upcoming tour of the…
July 21, 1954 – Keys To The Capitol – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 21, 1954 – With the fall of Dien Bien Phu, the outpost in what is now Vietnam and what was the French…
John Ehrlichman – Watergate Testimony – Evening Session – July 27, 1973 – Part 1 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – John Ehrlichman – Watergate Testimony – Evening Session – July 27, 1973 – Part 2 – Gordon Skene Sound…
– President Johnson Address regarding riots – July 27, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With a country teetering on the edge of burning down. Cities engulfed in flame and violence. Civil disorder spread from coast to coast, it…
Robert Plant -Laughin, Cryin, Laughin – 1967 – CBS Records UK – Sometimes an artist going the solo route just can’t seem to get arrested until they become part of a group. In the case of Robert Plant, he recorded…
July 26, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 26, 1994 – Busy day on Capitol Hill and the rest of the world. With the House Banking Committee starting hearings into the Whitewater Affair…
Almost a year since the end of World War 2 – on this July 26, 1946, it was about adjustment, change and justice. Reports from Nuremberg, where the trial of the former Nazi hierarchy was heading into its final…
– Vanessa Paradis in session May 15 2013 – Radio France – Le Mouv – One of the things I find frustrating about aspects of our culture here in the U.S. is that propensity to pigeon-hole an artist into one…
KNX-CBS – Background For Headlines with Bill Keneally – 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Hard to imagine now (although there are still pockets here and there), but right before World War 2 and well into the 1950s, Los…