"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– NBC Radio – Meet The Press – Guest: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King – April 17, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Birthday today, I unearthed this 1960 appearance on Meet…
The Clash – In Concert from Tokyo – 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 70s/early 80s Rock icons The Clash tonight. Live from Tokyo and recorded in 1982. Touring to coincide with the release of Combat Rock, this concert…
– Newshour – January 13, 1998 – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 13, 1998 was a day mostly consumed with reports of on-again-off-again UN weapons inspections going on in Baghdad. Today it was off-again, owing…
– Johnny Guitar Watson – In Session at NDR – 1977 – It occurred to me I haven’t been giving much space over to the cause of Funk lately – no good reason. Getting overloaded with festivals and gearing up…
It’s always baffled me why a seminal band such as The Move, so huge everywhere else in the world, were hardly noticed in the U.S. at the time. Granted, as time went on, the band did morph into ELO and…
Over to Paris this weekend for a Radio studio recording of the Lalo Cello Concerto, with the legendary Andrè Navarra, cello and the Paris Conservatory, conducted by the great Andrè Cluytens. No date on the disc, but judging from the…
– George Shearing – LIve At The Hollywood Bowl – Boys Club Benefit 1961 – Part of a longer concert featuring a wide range of talent as part of a Boys Club benefit in 1961, George Shearing offered up a…
– Voices and Events – December 30, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1951. With the end of this year rapidly approaching, maybe it’s a good idea to look at other years, just to get an idea that things…
– Culture In America: An Assessment – 1960 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Culture in America, circa 1960. Even 62 years ago, we were starting to ask questions about our accomplishments as a people – what…
– Image America: Immigration – June 25, 1959 – NBC Radio Network. – Since the recent issues over Immigration reform legislation, it’s always interesting to consider where the history is – what were Immigration laws like 20, 30, 50 years ago.…