"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – WHBQ – Dewey Phillips: Red, Hot and Blue – November 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Before the days of Rock n’ Roll, Popular Music was segregated into Mainstream and Race.…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC – Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain quits as Prime Minister – May 10, 1940 On a day seemingly overwhelmed with news of German invasions in Europe. London was rocked, this May…
Become a Patron! I originally ran this in 2014, and at the time was going to post it on Saturday as a sort of Weekend Pop Chronicles feature, but since today is a holiday anyway, I thought I would run…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – United Nations – Interview with Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha – April 30, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the Post-War World continued on the long road to recovery, and as…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC News Of The World/World News Roundup – April 30, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1945 was about the continuing war in Europe, despite an…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC News Of The World – April 25, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1941 had much to do with the War in Europe, going into…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Harl McDonald: Saga of The Mississippi – Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor – Broadcast recording – (circa 1944). Gordon Skene Sound Collection Some historic Americana tonight by way of Harl McDonald.…
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Click on the link here for Audio Player – Radio Moscow News In English – April 13, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection One of the upticks during the Cold War was the near constant barrage of propaganda, newscasts, jamming…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – George Fisher Interviews Carmen Miranda – July, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection No question, Portuguese-Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda was a household name in American entertainment throughout the 1940s and into…