"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
1964 Y-Day At The Hollywood Bowl – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The follow-up year to the classic 1963 Hollywood Bowl Y-Day concert, which featured The Beach Boys and a host of Surf and Pop bands, the 1964 edition was…
Donovan In Session At The BBC – Top Of The Pops-Saturday Club-Top Gear – 1965-1968- BBC Radio 1 Someone I haven’t played in a very long time. Donovan was an extremely popular figure from the mid-60s on. Initially marketed…
Maika Makovski – in session at Effecte Collins – RTVE/RNE España – February 25, 2021 – RTVE, Espanã – Maika Makovski in session tonight – recorded for Effecte Collins 2021 on February 25, 2021. Lest you think music is rolling…
Roy Orbison – live in Houston – January 1, 1987 – U.S. Tour – band soundboard – The legendary Roy Orbison in concert this weekend. Recorded during his monumental U.S. tour on January 1, 1987. Roy Orbison, who was a…
When I first met Jackie Lomax, he was touring the U.S. as lead singer with the short-lived band Badger. But Jackie Lomax had been around for a while, and it was during his stay at Apple where he grabbed the…
Ella Fitzgerald with Joe Pass – live in Hamburg -North German Radio – May 19, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Tis the season: Become a Patron! Ella Fitzgerald, the First Lady Of Song this weekend, with Joe Pass…
Bing Crosby – Rosemary Clooney – CBS Radio – April 6, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney from their five-day-a-week radio program, The Crosby-Clooney Show from April 6, 1962. While most people think Rock…
A club date from Joni Mitchell tonight – recorded at Club 47 in Cambridge Mass. from January 1968. Folk singer Tom Rush had met Mitchell in Toronto and was impressed with her songwriting ability. He took “Urge for Going” to…
LaVern Baker interviewed by Howard Millier – September 16, 1955 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – LaVern Baker in conversation with Howard Miller over the CBS Radio network on September 16, 1955. In case you don’t know,…
Further evidence that the Internet is one of the truly most astonishing innovations in recent memory is the amount of access one has to just about every corner and crevasse on the globe, and every musical taste that goes along…