"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The Burgie Big Beat featuring King Porter And his All-Stars with Jack McVea and The Platters – KNX-CBS Radio – May 10, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The early days of Rock n’ Roll were something of a…
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…
Count Basie and his Orchestra featuring Lambert, Hendricks & Ross – live at Juan-les-Pins Festival – July 20, 1961 – Radio France – The immortal Count Basie orchestra this week, cooking up a storm at the 1961 Juan-les-Pins Festival in…
– WGLI 1290 Club With Jerry Stevens – November 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As promised, the continuing occasional series of Top-40 Radio as presented in the 1950s and 60s, when AM radio was the be-all/end-all in social…
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Conversation – Rock n’ Roll – July 29,1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Generation gaps. Yes, there was a huge one in 1956. Pop Music…
One of the interesting things about listening to actual history, as opposed to the recreation of it, is how much gets glossed over in the reconstruction and re-telling. Music and Popular Culture is often relegated to those key moments or…
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Mothers Of Invention – Live at l’Olympia Paris – October 26, 1968 – ORTF, Paris I just ran across this concert a few weeks ago hadn’t…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – WHBQ – Dewey Phillips: Red, Hot and Blue – November 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Before the days of Rock n’ Roll, Popular Music was segregated into Mainstream and Race.…