"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
WOR-AM, New York – Barry Gray Program with Mel Allen And Ed Weiner – September 16, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Before the days of phone-in talk shows, Pop Psychologists and conspiracy theorists, Radio was getting its feet wet during the post World War 2 years with conversational...
Sonny Rollins Quartet – live at Pori Jazz Festival 1979 – Pori, Finland – July 13, 1979 – YLE- Finland – The Sonny Rollins Quartet – live at the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland on July 13, 1979 and broadcast by the Finnish Radio network YLE. With all the insanity...
Ride – In concert at Gothic Theatre, Englewood, Colorado – April 3, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Perennial favorites Ride in concert this weekend. Recorded at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood Colorado on April 3, 1991 and broadcast sometime shortly after. Ride were one of the pivotal bands...
Dave Stone – KYA, San Francisco – October 19, 1970 – 1970 started off with a lot of promise. New year, new decade, new city. You left L.A. behind, at least for the next four years while you dive head-first into adulthood and a higher education (in more ways than...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme Court Justice – BBC World Service Documentary – 2019 – BBC World Service – With heart-stopping news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away earlier this evening, the result of complications from a battle with Pancreatic Cancer, a vital and essential voice for Justice...
KABC-790, Los Angeles – Dr. Toni Grant – July 20, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As it’s been said several times in several places: “Americans love a good dish” – and no, it’s not anything caloric – the “dish” they speak about is “dishing the dirt” – talking...
Simple Minds – In Concert – De Gigant Apeldoorn, Netherlands – March 22, 1980 – Flip Martian collection – Simple Minds in concert this week. Live at De Gigant Apeldoorn in the Netherlands and recorded on March 22, 1980 by Dutch Radio network VPRO. The roots of Simple Minds are...
September 17, 1998 – BBC World Service – Newsdesk – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 17, 1998 – The view from London – the ongoing drama of the Clinton/Lewinsky Affair was reaching a new chapter when the House Judiciary Committee was slated to meet over when to release the...
Angelic Upstarts – In session for John Peel – June 29 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – Angelic Upstarts in session tonight. Recorded for John Peel at BBC Radio 1 on June 23rd and broadcast on the 29th. The Angelic Upstarts formed in South Shields in 1977. AllMusic calls them...
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra – Christian Zacharias, Soloist And Conductor – RSR – January 25, 2011 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Music of Beethoven this week – performed and conducted by the brilliant Christian Zacharias and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, recorded live at the Salle Métropole, Lausanne on January 25,...
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