Gene Sculatti
Gene Sculatti | |
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| Born | Eugene Paul Sculatti January 30, 1947[1][2] San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Music journalist |
Eugene Paul Sculatti (born January 30, 1947) is an American music journalist who compiled and edited the book The Catalog of Cool (1982).[3][4] In 1966, he became the first journalist to write about the nascent San Francisco music scene in a national magazine (Crawdaddy!).[5] He is formerly an editorial director for Warner Bros. Records and the magazine Billboard.[6] He has also written for Rolling Stone, Creem, and Radio & Records.[7]
Sculatti is also a folk artist whose Cityscape series of hand-drawn scrolls has been featured in the UK's Raw Vision,[8] an international journal of Outsider Art.
Bibliography
- 1982 The Catalog of Cool. New York. Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-446-37515-3
- 1984 Popcorn: America's Amazing Obsession. New York. Long Shadow Books / Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-49682-1
- 1985 San Francisco Nights: The Psychedelic Music Trip 1965-1968. New York. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-69903-1
- 1993 Too Cool. New York. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-69903-1
- 2004 Best Selling Albums of the 60s. London. Barnes & Noble / Amber Books. ISBN 978-1-906842-04-8
- 2012 Dark Stars & Anti-Matter: 40 Years of Loving, Leaving and Making Up with the Music of the Grateful Dead. Rhino. ASIN: B008A8NX2G
- 2016 Tryin' to Tell a Stranger 'bout Rock and Roll: Selected Writings 1966-2016. ISBN 978-1-5354-8382-7
- 2021 For the Records: Close Encounters with Popular Music.
References
- ↑ "Eugene Paul Sculatti, Born 01/30/1947 in California". CaliforniaBirthIndex.org.
- ↑ "THE MAJESTIC WEST SCROLLGene Sculatti — Wimpole Street Writers". Wimpolestreetwriters.com. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ↑ Henderson, Richard (2010). Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4411-4315-0.
- ↑ Frank, Thomas C. (1997). Baffler: The Journal That Blunts the Cutting Edge. Baffler. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-888984-09-5.
- ↑ "Gene Sculatti". Rock's Backpages. n.d.
- ↑ Fenterstock, Alison (July 22, 2015). "Dr. John's '60s, '70s Atlantic singles collected in new compilation, due out Sept. 18". Nola.com.
- ↑ O'Rourke, Sally (November 10, 2016). "BOOK: Gene Sculatti, 'Tryin' to Tell a Stranger 'Bout Rock and Roll: Selected Writings, 1966-2016'". Rebeat.
- ↑ "GENE SCULATTI". RAW VISION. Retrieved October 30, 2025.