"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Edith Peinemann with Joseph Keilberth and The Bamberg Symphony – Vienna Festival 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A classic and historic concert this week. From the 1959 Vienna Festival, a performance by The Bamberg Symphony, conducted by Joseph…
Editors Note: With the sad news of the passing of Christine McVie, I thought I would re-post this (from 2013) as tribute to an amazing artist, gifted writer and remarkable human being. Something slightly unusual tonight. A radio session for…
News and Commentary – Elliot Roosevelt – November 30, 1939 – Mutual – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Finland was in the news this day. Reports that some 1/2 million Soviet troops crossed the border into Finland, setting off what…
Cocteau Twins – John Peel Session – July 15, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – Cocteau Twins tonight. One of the first, if not the first of the Ethereal/Dreamscape bands to arrive on the scene in the late 1970s. The…
– November 29, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Desert Storm loomed this day in 1990. The UN Security Council was meeting later on this day to vote to approve military action if Iraq…
Dutch Uncles – in session for Marc Riley – November 28, 2022 – BBC 6 Music – Dutch Uncles to start off the week. In session for Marc Riley (with a bonus cut popping up on Gideon Coe’s program), recorded…
Keys To The Capitol – November 24, 1954 – NBC Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The world as it looked in November 1954. The Cold War was raging although there was talk of “peaceful coexistence” between East…
– News Of The World – November 28, 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Dramatic news this day in 1942. Word came from Paris via London that the entire French Naval fleet was destroyed in one exploding catastrophe at…
The Mellows – 1 – How Sentimental Can I Be? – 2 – Nothin’ To Do – Jay-Dee Records 793 – August 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Diving into the sadly neglected room full of 78’s tonight and…
Robert Evett – Capriccio – Bertha Melnik, piano – WOR/WNYC – 1945 – Diving into somewhat out-of-the-way Americana this week. The music of Robert Evett, played by Bertha Melnik in this 1945 broadcast of the 6th Annual American Music Festival…