"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Part 1: Part 2: (Editors Note: Originally Posted in 2012) A few years ago I ran a portion of this concert, via my now-defunct Newstalgia site. It featured headliners The Beach Boys at the annual Y-Day At The Bowl event…
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…
Magazine – In Concert at Fox Warfield – August 15, 1980 – ©Terry Hammer Archives Over to San Francisco for a set by Post-Punk/New Wave conglomerate extraordinaire Magazine, in concert at The Fox Warfield and diligently and thankfully recorded by…
Dean Rusk On Face The Nation – July 30, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the War in Vietnam dragged on, and opposition to it grew louder and louder, the justification for it grew more intense from the White…
Duke Ellington Live at Basin Street – 1956 Another installment of our weekly Past Daily Downbeat series – this time its over to Basin Street in New York for this CBS Radio broadcast of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra…
KXLA – Redondo Beach Barn Program – Nov. 27, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Fans of the West Coast, and specifically Southern California, may get a kick out of this slice of Popular Culture from the 1940s. By all…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”9241″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”July 22, 1973 – The World This Week – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] The World This Week – Week Ending July 22, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – And forty-eight…
Detroit Symphony – Paul Paray, Cond. – Arthur Rubinstein, Piano – January 7, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection More history this week – a rare broadcast performance featuring the legendary pianist Arthur Rubinstein and the Detroit Symphony conducted by…
Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – Charles Munch, Conductor – April 29, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Continuing our journey through rehearsals with the BSO. This week, Music Director Charles Munch leads the orchestra in rehearsals of music by Debussy…
The Brilliant Corners – In Session – John Peel – August 21, 1984 – BBC Radio 1 I’ll admit, I was hard-pressed to remember who The Brilliant Corners were. Aside from taking their name from a classic Thelonius Monk album,…