"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– NBC News on the Hour – December 6, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The big news for this December 6th in 1960 was the visit paid to the White House by President-Elect Kennedy. In 1960 the oldest…
– Izia – SFR Studio Concert – March 19, 2012 – Over to Paris this week for a concert by the deceptively dramatic and dynamic Izia and her band, recorded live at SFR Studios in Paris on March 19, 2012.…
Eighty-two years ago today, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered the annual State Of The Union Address which has become known as The Four Freedoms Address. FDR: “In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a…
– Abba – Live In Concert – 1981 – Abba Fan Club Recording Commemorating their 1981 Tour – Truly 70s this weekend – even though the concert is from 1981 and one of the last before ABBA broke up. Nonetheless,…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”8396″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”May 23, 1992 – ABC World News This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] World News This Week-may-24-1992.mp3 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As 1992 Third Party Presidential Candidate Ross Perot aptly summed up:…
Back to some basic, no-frills American Rock n’ Roll this weekend. In 1977, Mushroom Records ran a full-page advertisement showing the bare-shouldered Wilson sisters (as on the Dreamboat Annie album cover) with the suggestive caption, “It was only our first…
Looking for samples of Iconic Americana this weekend, I ran across this concert by the legendary Little Feat, recorded by KMET-FM in Los Angeles on March 20, 1973. Having been a fan of this group since their early days, I…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”11513″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 13, 1941 – News Of The World – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] It was now a World War, this December 14th in 1941. America was busy gearing up for what…
News reports via Mutual Broadcasting System – December 7, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seventy-two years on, the event which triggered our involvement in World War 2 is getting further and further from the collective memory. Much the same…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”49596″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”July 23, 1945 – H.V. Kaltenborn and the News – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Become a Patron! News for this day in 1941 was ominous but not unexpected. Bulgaria, reeling under…