"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Ray Charles, live at Palais des Sport, Paris – October 22, 1961 – Radio France Since I’m a firm believer that you can’t really have too much of a good thing, as…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: American Forum of The Air – Are Our Schoolbooks Dangerous? 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As a society, are we a fearful people? Yes. Paranoid? Yes. Vengeful? Yes. Civil? No. Has…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for July 18, 1965 – WOR-AM, New York – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News reports on the war in Vietnam were coming with such regularity in 1965 as to almost make…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Futureheads – Live at Rocknacht, Köln, March 29, 2008 – WDR I haven’t played any Futureheads in a while, but I just ran across this short concert they did at the…
Click on the link here for audio: Our Civil Liberties – Are They In Danger? America United Program – 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The question of our Civil Liberties has been a topic of discussion and speculation going…
(Editors Note: This was Originally posted in 2013). Anyone who has spent any time this past week surfing the various radio outlets around Europe knows this is festival season all over. This week Radio France Musique is in full festival…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for July 17, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this July 17th in 1979 began with word that Nicaraguan strong-man Anastasio Somoza resigned and…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Motorhead – Live at The Paris Theater – May 16, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert With the news earlier this month of the abrupt cancellation of Motorhead‘s Summer tour, owing…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The News With Don Hollenbeck – CBS Radio – July 16, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Your typical July day in 1951. The U.S. was trying to find a way to…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Paris Wind Ensemble – Blanchard: Quartet for Woodwinds – ORTF Studio recording – circa 1955 Roger Blanchard (1919-2011) wasn’t particularly recognized as a composer. His many recordings as founder of the…