https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/06213944/CBS-Radio-Romance-Of-Helen-Trent-July-27-1959.mp3 The Romance Of Helen Trent — July 27, 1959 — Gordon Skene Sound Collection - Like any social/cultural movement, when it finally arrives at the mainstream it comes with a goodly degree of baggage brought on by the very same mainstream subjecting it to vast amounts of ridicule via…

https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/30234459/ktnq-steele-nasty-jan30-77.mp3 January 30, 1977 — KTNQ-AM — The Real Don Steele — Gordon Skene Sound Collection - If they looked at your i.d. closely they would realize you weren’t 250 pounds — you weren’t 6 foot 6 and you weren’t 40 years old. But your Fake i.d., the one you…

https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/16115039/KIQQ-Don-Steele-Billy-Pearl-1974-01-18.mp3 KIQQ — The Real Don Steele — Billy Pearl — January 18, 1974 — Gordon Skene Sound Collection - It’s happening — you’re heading into senior year and suddenly you don’t care about anything. Your parents look strange, your teachers act strange — everything is way too corny for…

https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/27110430/America-Dances-38-07-06-With-Count-Basie-revised.mp3 Count Basie and His Orchestra — America Dances — CBS — July 6, 1938 — Gordon Skene Sound Collection - The incomparable Count Basie and his Orchestra to help slide into this Holiday weekend. Broadcast on July 1938 from the CBS series America Dances and broadcast via shortwave to…

https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/21235910/A-Childs-Christmas-In-New-York-The-little-Unsaid.mp3 The Little Unsaid — A Child’s Christmas In New York — Pat Troise-Skene Here we are, Christmas Eve 2020. And as promised, offering some traditional, not-so-traditional and previously unheard songs to get you in some semblance of the festive spirit this year. Carrying on perhaps more in the tradition…

https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/22102839/Apollo-8-Chrismas-Greeting.mp3 Become a Patron! Coming to the end of a year of chaos and upheaval in 1968, a glimmer of hope came from a space capsule orbiting the moon on December 24, 1968. From outside the window of their ship, a view of the Earth peering over the horizon of…

https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/13104556/KFWB-Joe-Yocam-Gene-Weed-January-11-1968.mp3 KFWB — Joe Yocam — Gene Weed — January 11, 1968 — Gordon Skene Sound Collection - Here’s the deal — 1968 was going to be a big year for you. You decided you weren’t going to be one of life’s great watchers — the world was changing and…

https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/22103750/News-for-December-8-1980.mp3 Stunned incomprehensible silence. That was a reaction many people had when they first heard the news that John Lennon was dead, gunned down as he stepped out of a car, on his way home from a recording session. And as the news reports came in — and as word…

https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/22143220/le-orme-live-1974.mp3 The tape of this concert has been sitting in a box, on a shelf, in the vault for the better part of thirty years. …