"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
4 By The Velvelettes: He Was Really Sayin’ Something – Throw A Farewell Kiss – Needle In A Haystack – Should I Tell Them – VIP Records/Motown If you listened to nothing else in the 60s except for Soul, you’d…
KNX-AM/FM – The Michael Jackson Show with Bishop C. Fain Kyle – October 11, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Civil Rights movement was a hot button issue all across America in 1965. Los Angeles wasn’t immune –…
General Maxwell Taylor – NBC-Monitor: Meet The Press – August 8, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – General Maxwell Taylor, returning to the U.S. after spending a year as our Ambassador to South Vietnam went before the panel on…
July 29, 1965 – News item: Passage of Medicare Bill – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Medicare. 52 years ago this week, it became a reality for millions of Americans, By an overwhelming majority on July 28, the Medicare…
WLS – Ron Riley – British Billboard – February 24, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Being a teenager, just about anywhere in America meant having your ear at least partially glued to your radio. The British Invasion was…
The Pretty Things – In Session at The BBC – 1965/1967 – BBC Radio 1 – The Pretty Things were, if you remember, part of that initial wave of British Invasion bands which hit these shores in 1964 They were,…
Part 1: Part 2: George Szell conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in music of Wagner, Barber and Schubert – In concert at The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, June 24, 1965. A classic concert this week, featuring one of the greatest conductors of…
Bob Dylan – Newport Folk Festival – July 25, 1965 – Pete Tesoro Collection – (Starting this week, we’re adding occasional guest editors who have spoken about favorite concerts and were asked to write about them – This week it’s…
Eric Burdon & The Animals – BBC Sessions – April-July 1965 – BBC Radio 1 – The inimitable Eric Burdon in session tonight. Two of several he recorded for the BBC between 1964 and 1968. And in case you didn’t…
– George Szell with John Browning – The Cleveland Orchestra – live at The Concertgebouw – June 24, 1965 – George Szell leads the Cleveland Orchestra this week, in a concert recorded on June 24, 1965 at the famed Concertgebouw…