"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– January 10, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Subscribe: Become a Patron! January 10,2000 – Even though the continuing saga of Elian Gonzalez was still front-page news, the announcement of a…
– KHJ – Machine Gun Kelly – December 29, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Two days left of 1975. New Years eve is just around the corner – so is 1976. 1975 was okay, it could have…
– NPR: Options – The FCC – January 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1961 then-FCC Commissioner Newton Minow took the broadcast industry to task for offering what he called “A vast Wasteland” of inane and pointless programming.…
KMPC – Wink Martindale Show – August 21, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Okay, so now you’re heading in the direction of the big Three-Oh! Your life has changed. You have responsibilities. Maybe you got married – maybe…
FCC Chairman Frank McNinch address – Nov. 12, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Bearing in mind that Radio was the modern technological advance in 1938, Television was only in experimental stages, and computers weren’t even considered, there was a…
James Cotton Blues Band – live at Fillmore Auditorium – November 25, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the sad news today that James Cotton, another icon, another legend in Music passed away today, 2017 is shaping up…
KMPC – Dick Whittinghill Show – July 30, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Midway through the last year of the 70s. July 30, 1979. Smog is bad. Traffic is bad. Buses are never on time. Things just seem…
Rudolf Barshai with Philip Fowke – Music Of Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky – March 1983 – BBC Radio 3 – Another classic concert this week. This time featuring the celebrated Russian conductor Rudolf Barshai, leading his Bournemouth Symphony in music of…
Day #23 – 7 days left. This time next week it will be all over, and it will either be a time of relief and celebration or a time of reflection and concern. Yesterday saw a flurry of activity…
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…