"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
May 1980 – CBS Radio – Harry Reasoner news And Comment – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Things we take for granted now are things we thought impossible a decade or two before. Culture has changed so much since this report from legendary journalist Harry Reasoner first aired (on May...
Staël – Quand – Silence on Tourne – La Rage au Dents – circa 2010 – MySpace Band Page – You wonder sometimes – I was going through a hard drive full of songs I had downloaded from MySpace between 2006 and 2010 earlier today. Myspace, for those of you...
The Pretty Things – live at Golders Green, London – 1973 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – BBC Radio 1 – The Pretty Things in concert tonight. Lest you think The Rolling Stones can lay claim to being one of the oldest still-performing bands in Rock (50+ years!) –...
Salad – in session for BBC Radio 1 – December 20, 1993 – BBC Radio 1 – Salad for a Wednesday night. Somewhat short-lived at first, Salad got started in 1992 as The Merry Babes. Featuring Dutch Model/singer/MTV-VJ Marijne van der Vlugt, bassist Pete Brown, drummer Rob Wakeman and guitarist...
The Jesus Lizard – In Session For John Peel – Sept. 27, 1992 – Broadcast Oct. 30, 1992 – BBC Radio 1 – Noise Rock from Austin tonight by way of The Jesus Lizard in a BBC Radio 1 session for John Peel, recorded on September 27, 1992 and broadcast...
KNOB-FM – 11:pm-2:00 am – May 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Lest you think the 1950s were all about Rock n’ Roll and Perry Como, you had only to flip to the FM side of your high-end Hi-Fi radio to find a whole other world was sitting out...
Emanuel Chabrier – excerpts from Act I – Briseïs – Soloists and ORTF Lyric Orch. Tony Aubin, cond. 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A rarity this weekend.Excerpts from the first (and only) act of an unfinished opera by the late 19th century French composer Emanuel Chabrier. With a...
Quicksilver Messenger Service – in Concert at The Fillmore, San Francisco – Summer, 1968 – Band Soundboard – Quicksilver Messenger Service this week. One of the milestone bands of the San Francisco Sound which dominated the West Coast in the mid-late 1960s. With John Cipollina on lead guitar, QMS pioneered...
WLS-AM Chicago – The Dick Biondi Show – May 2, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Personality Radio was everywhere in the 1960s. You couldn’t spend more than five minutes in any town in the country where you weren’t introduced to the be-all-end-all DJ on the favorite local Radio...
Howard Hanson – Centennial Ode – Soloists and The Eastman-Rochester Philharmonic – Howard Hanson, cond. – June 5,1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Howard Hanson tonight. The dean of what became known as Modern American Music from roughly the 1930s to the late 1950s. Founder of...
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