"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Gene Krupa Band, featuring Anita O’Day and Charlie Ventura – Spotlight Bands – January 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Digging deep into the vault this week for a performance by The Gene Krupa Band, featuring the legendary singer…
The Fall – in session for John Peel – August 4, 2004 – BBC Radio 1 – More sad news this week. It was announced earlier today that The Fall’s founder/lead-singer/irascable icon Mark E. Smith passed away, after a long…
Hugh Masekela – Live at The Hollywood Bowl – August 14, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Only a month into this new year and already we’ve had sad and terrible losses in the Music World. The latest is…
Henri Barraud – Sonata For Violin and Piano – Arthur Garami, Violin – Charles Reiner, Piano – CBC Canada Radio Session – 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Completing the Radio session a few weeks ago that also featured…
The Rolling Stones – in concert at International Center, Honolulu Hawaii – July 28, 1966 – KPOI Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Not to be the dispenser of Reality checks, but this concert from the Rolling Stones 1966…
UK Jangle-Pop Hurrah! in session at the BBC, November 27, 1982 – Click on the link at the Past Daily site and listen to the complete session.
Conversations With Artie Shaw – Guest: John Simon – Feb. 29, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Critics – an alternately loved and despised lot, viewed by some as a combination of giddy swooning fan and stone-faced curmudgeon. The…
October 11, 1999 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 11, 1999 – News for this day began with the opening phase of Jury selection for the murder trial of Matthew Shepard, whose beating and…
King Cole Court Radio program – King Cole Trio w/Anita O’Day – May 26, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Nat King Cole this week, with vocals by Anita O’Day in a session done for C.P. MacGregor on May 26,…
h Alexander Brott – Sea To Sea – 1947 World Premier recording – Brott With Montreal Symphony – CBC Transcription Service – Back up to Canada this week for a world premier recording of Sea to Sea by the much…