
Category: Popular Culture


Guadalcanal Diary – Live In Santa Cruz – 1988 – Past Daily Backstage Weekend
Guadalcanal Diary – Live at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz – February 3, 1988 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Guadalcanal Diary in concert this week. A band closely associated with the hotbed of musical activity taking place around Athens and Marietta Georgia in the 1980s – they scored big points

You’re A Teenager – You’re In San Francisco – It’s March 1969 – You’re Not Feeling It.
KYA-AM – San Francisco – March 31, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1969 was a year rife with deception – you know – you were there. People from everywhere were moving into your town in droves. They heard stories, they read newspapers – they saw those reports on

Soprano Grace Moore – 10 Year Old Piano Prodigy Byron Janis – Alexander Woollcott – All This And So Much More – The Magic Key 1939 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
NBC Blue Network – The Magic Key – Grace Moore – Byron Janis and many others – Feb. 12, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another installment of The Magic Key this weekend. featuring the celebrated Soprano, Grace Moore as well as a 10 year old Piano Prodigy Byron



January 22, 2000 – A Caucus Grows In Iowa – A South Carolina Stars And Bars Controversy – A Missle Defense Test Goes Bust
January 22, 2000 – CBS Weekend Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 22, 2000 – Iowa was a hotbed of politicking this week, as Presidential hopefuls from both parties criss-crossed the state, stumping, talking, promising and cajoling voters who would hold caucuses in hundreds of living rooms, Fire


Phyllis Diller Has A Word or Two With Art Linkletter – 1967 – Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles
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 the most prominent or identifiable names associated with Youth Culture,

The Germs – Live At The Starwood – 1980 – Past Daily Soundbooth – RIP: Lorna Doom (1957-2019)
The Germs – live at The Starwood – December 3, 1980 – Rhino Records 2010 – The Germs to end out an insane week. With the sad news on Thursday of the death of bassist Lorna Doom (aka: Teresa Ryan), I was reminded of how short-lived, but how seismic this