"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
April 29, 1967 – KRLA – Johnny Hayes Show – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – L.A. Saturday, April 29, 1967 – It’s Spring – it’s only 64 degrees out at 2 in the afternoon, so it’s not totally Beach…
KMPC – Dick Whittinghill – Ira Cook – October 20, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Los Angeles in 1953. You may or may not remember it – maybe you weren’t born yet, maybe you were too young to…
– KBLA – Humble Harve – December 17, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s December 1966. You have this band; The Bow-Tiks. You’ve been practicing ever since you got your bass last Christmas. There’s six of you. Three…
– KHJ – The Real Don Steele – circa Feb. 22, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you were growing up in L.A. in the 1960s, one of the great rituals of listening to Top-40 radio was being…
B. Mitchel Reed – WMCA – June 28, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I’m sure it’s a bit more complicated now, but back in the Dark Ages, when AM radio was the only game in town and Top-40…
KHJ – The Gary Mack Show – The Real Don Steele Show – August 10, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection August 1966 – if you were a teenager, and you lived in L.A. you either had the summer off…
August 10, 1945 – WOR/Mutual – 11:45 am – 1:45 pm – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – New York: August 10, 1945. The day started hopeful. News that Japan had accepted the surrender terms and that World War 2 was…
It’s August 14, 1969 – in a few weeks school will be starting. Summer will be over – well . . . until the Santa Ana winds start blowing in October, and then it’s Summer all over again. But for…
Freddie Snakeskin – KROQ – July 2, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The endless quest for Saturday night – the night above all nights, when all the planets align and everything is possible. You’re in your last semester…
Become a Patron! June 7, 1968 – KMPC-AM – The Johnny Magnus Program – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you lived in Los Angeles in June 1968, like most everyone you felt just a little strange. Maybe you worked…