"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Fred Allen: Town Hall Tonight – December 27, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you’re a fan of comedy, study comedy or old enough to remember when Radio was the entertainment medium of choice, because TV wasn’t…
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Jean Shepherd – WOR-AM/FM – December 24, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Jean Shepherd; a regular fixture for the holiday season going back several decades, and with his immortal Christmas Story making the yearly pilgrimage to every TV…
Jean Shepherd – WOR, New York – Army Thanksgiving – November 23, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Jean Shepherd – Most people these days know him as the guy who wrote and narrated A Christmas Story, but Jean…
Lenny Bruce on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts – April 18, 1949 – CBS Radio/TV – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something rare and unusual (and certainly historic) this weekend. What is probably one of the earliest, if not the earliest…
Become a Patron! From the somewhat addled mind of Gordon Skene: You have options – and both of them are just below the photo. As you know, we were hot in the midst of our Annual Past Daily Fundraiser almost…
Moms Mabley – Interview with Studs Terkel – WFMT – June 13, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Jackie “Moms” Mabley. If you’ve never heard of her, you have missed an important part of your life. If you have…
Phyllis Diller – chats with Art Linkletter – Art Linkletter’s House Party – CBS Radio – Jan. 19, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. When you start diving into Popular Culture of the 1960s, the part that doesn’t focus on…