"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Geoff Edwards Show – November 26, 1979 – Looking around for events which occurred on this day in history, I ran across this tape of an hour’s worth of L.A. radio station KMPC, recorded between 9 and 10 in…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”10021″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”September 9, 1979 – CBS Radio – The World This Week – Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] The World This Week + CBS Hourly News – September 9, 1979 – CBS Radio…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6669″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 25, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] With no end in sight and protests continuing and becoming more violent, the situation in Iran on this day in 1979…
It helps, a lot: Become a Patron! From NPR’s legendary and much lamented Jazz Alive! series comes this weekend’s Downbeat post. Recorded at the 3rd Annual Art Park Jazz Festival in Lewiston New York, between September 1-3, 1979 and featuring…
Back to some basic, no-frills American Rock n’ Roll this weekend. In 1977, Mushroom Records ran a full-page advertisement showing the bare-shouldered Wilson sisters (as on the Dreamboat Annie album cover) with the suggestive caption, “It was only our first…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”5792″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”November 27, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Shortly after the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, ABC News inaugurated a new late-night news…
A 70’s triple bill this week, via BBC Radio 1‘s In Concert series from January 13, 1979. Lene Lovich, Wreckless Eric and Rachel Sweet share the bill in one of the more decade-defining concerts of the late 70’s, with a…
Part 1 Part 2 Over to Prague from 1979 this week for a concert by the BBC Symphony, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky and featuring Viktoria Postnikova, piano. The concert was recorded during the legendary Prague Spring Festival and features works…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”46928″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 11, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Become a Patron! October, it would seem, is not historically without its surprises. On this day in 1979 New York City was turned upside down over…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”18841″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak – December 31, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Become a Patron! As 1979 came to a close, the world was once again facing The Big Question Mark.…