"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Tom Jones, headlining this week’s Top Of The Pops via BBC Radio. Originally broadcast on August 25, 1967. Also appearing were The Bee Gees, The Shadows, The Breakaways and newcomer Samantha Jones. For those of you not familiar with the radio version of Top Of The Pops, it was pretty...
May 11, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 11, 2000 – A day things spiraled out of control. The fire consuming Los Alamos New Mexico initially began as a “controlled burn”. But owing to an unexpected wind shift, it quickly exploded...
December 8, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 8, 2000 – Election 2000 and America’s cliffhanger. Now it was all down to Florida – and the battle of wills was underway. The Gore team sought a recount. The Bush team...
Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra – Lugano Jazz Festival 2004 – July 10, 2004 – RAI-Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The ever-changing, ever-musical, ever-unpredictable Bobby McFerrin this week. From the 2004 Lugano Jazz Festival, recorded on July 10, 2004 by RAI Radio. McFerrin is a hard one to pin down...
KHJ – The Real Don Steele – 3:00-4:00 pm – May 23, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – No month moves quite as slowly as May. You get tantalizing glimpses of Summer, and then comes June Gloom and you know it will be the last day of school soon....
April 25, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 25, 2000 – the political windstorm over the Elian Gonzalez affair was starting to wind down, or at least try to. The young boy, subject of an intense immigration battle as the result...
January 6, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 6, 2000. The big news was coming from Little Havana in Miami this day, where the political tug-of-war over Elian Gonzalez was heating up. Demonstrations were gathering momentum and protestors were getting more violent and...
December 30, 1997 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 30, 1997 – Almost the last day of the year and, like clockwork, the Eastern Seaboard and the South are blanketed with snow as a Nor’easter slammed through, bringing record rain and snowfall from New...
Bleach – in session for John Peel – June 4, 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – Bleach who, by most musical standards, came and went in a flash. An Indie band from Ipswich, they were largely considered Shoegaze, and came along at a time when Shoegaze was becoming a prominent...
Dead Can Dance – BBC Session – John Peel – June 13, 1984 – BBC Radio 1 – Dead Can Dance to end out the week. One of the pioneering Soundscape/ethereal wave/dark wave bands of the early 80s, they were closely associated with another band they were label mates...
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