"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Asking for a friend: Become a Patron! – KCBS- This Is San Francisco – Jan. 11, 1950 – The thing about history is that it’s not always about the sweeping gestures and defining moments over a period of time. Those…
– 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…
Skip Weshner’s Accent On Sound – One Sheridan Square – Peter and Isabel Gardner – 1959 – KRHM-FM, Los Angeles – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Folk Music of the 50s tonight with a sample of FM radio in Los…
Heading in a smooth and mellow direction this week with The Dave Brubeck Quartet featuring Paul Desmond, at a private party in Carmel and recorded on June 26, 1955 by a fan, by the group – who knows? One of…
– NBC Radio: Voices And Events – News for Week of November 28, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – No picnic, this week in November of 1950. Starting off with an out-of-control bus on a mountain road in Colorado…
A Night At The Ash Grove with Les Claypool – KRHM-FM – October 24, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Anybody living in Los Angeles from the 1950s through the 1970s will instantly recognize The Ash Grove. It was one…
– Little Rock – Integration – Oct. 17, 1957 – Sixty-Six years ago, starting in September, the controversy and the battle began over Integration in public schools. Nowhere was it more contentious than in the South, where Federal troops were…
You’d think, after over half a century, a subject like this would be a moot point. Problem recognized. Problem addressed. Problem solved. America prides itself on being anti-intellectual. But sadly, no. If anything, the problem has only become magnified, these…
– The Moscow Fair – September 13, 1959 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Before the infamous U-2 incident (the plane, not the band . . .for you who may not know), there was a decided thaw…
Something special and rather rare. A concert, recorded by Bavarian Radio in Munich on January 19, 1950, featuring the Coleman Hawkins All-Stars featuring James Moody, Kenny Clarke, Nat Peck and Pierre Michelot. Truly an all-star lineup. A little over an…