"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Count Basie with Joe Williams – The Tonight Show With Steve Allen – September 28, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Further evidence the early days of TV were days of eclectic wonderment, this excerpt from an episode…
XTC – In Concert recorded for BBC Radio 1 – March 25, 1978 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert series – XTC to get us up to Hump Day. One of their earliest broadcast concerts, only fifteen months together when…
Something different this weekend – a rare appearance from the pre-PBS NET series Soul! hosted by Poet/Author Nikki Giovanni and featuring The Delfonics in a live set, as re-broadcast on April 21, 1972 (it originally aired on January 5th). Live…
Temples – in concert from Lausanne, Switzerland – April 20, 2017 – RTS Temples in concert this week. Live from Les Docks in Lausanne, Switzerland and recorded this past April 20th. One of the bands pioneering Neo, or New Psych,…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”27534″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”May 20, 1990 – ABC World News This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] May 20,1990 was the end of a week loaded with loss. Two icons of entertainment left on the same day.…
– 4 by The Baronets – from the Unissued Vee-Jay album – Recorded March 13, 1965 – The well-known and very popular Quebec vocal group Les Baronets (featuring future Celine Dion husband Renè Angèlil) were looking to expand their…
– CBS Radio – Campaign ’80 – Democratic National Convention excerpts – August 10, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 35 years ago it was all going on in Manhattan. The 1980 Democratic Convention and the forces of…
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – WCBS-CBS News – Report on Death of Johnny Carson – January 23, 2005 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection On this day 10 years ago, if you were…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Francaix: Fantasie for Cello and Orch. – Maurice Gendron, Cello – Paris Radio Symphony – Eugenè Bigot, cond. – Rec. July 4, 1952 – Paris Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Local Natives – Live at Pocket Evening – 2012 I’m always amazed, but not necessarily surprised, to discover local bands playing in venues on other continents and not realizing they’ve been…