"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Love In America – Conversation 1955 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Love in America in 1955. It didn’t seem like such a hot-button topic, but people were starting to question things; the status quo, the…
News for January 8, 1974 News on this January 8th in 1974 continued with goings-on at The White House. Watergate was not going to go away, much to the Nixon Administration’s wishes it would. The White House did issue a…
– Top-40 Radio -Los Angeles – March 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It was the Tuna Fiesta. It had to be. Nobody else ate it – they knew. You were starving. You missed Nutrition. You were building sets…
– CBS World News Roundup – January 5, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – On this day 24 years ago, the on-going tug-of-war between relatives of Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban-American community in Miami and the Justice Department were approaching…
– Sophie Tucker Story – October 16, 1953 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sophie Tucker – a name completely unfamiliar to most people. She was one of the biggest stars of the Vaudeville stage in the…
The Exurbanities – CBS Radio Workshop – March 30, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As far back as post-World War 2 America, the idea of leaving the city, living the bucolic life in the country – getting as…
– Nirvana – Live in Rome – Nov. 19, 1991 – RAI Radio 2 – Historic Nirvana this Holiday Hump-Day. From a concert in Rome, recorded by the Italian Radio network RAI on November 19, 1991, the inimitable Kurt Cobain…
– CBS Radio Hourly News – December 26, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Even though it was the day after Christmas in 1989, the world was still up to its old tricks; upheavals, invasions and intrigues. Starting with the…
– Los Lobos Christmas Party – December 24, 1992 – NPR – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Los Lobos Christmas Party at Capitol Records, 1992. A star-studded affair, featuring L.A.’s own and some of the best and brightest dropping by…
– Jack Benny Christmas – December 20, 1953 – CBS Radio – It wouldn’t be Christmas without at least one appearance from the legendary Jack Benny. Most people know Benny via his TV series that ran from the 1950’s well…