Gene Sculatti

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Gene Sculatti
Born
Eugene Paul Sculatti

(1947-01-30) January 30, 1947 (age 78)[1][2]
San Francisco, California, U.S.
OccupationMusic 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 0-446-37515-2
  • 1984 Popcorn: America's Amazing Obsession. New York. Long Shadow Books / Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-49682-4
  • 1985 San Francisco Nights: The Psychedelic Music Trip 1965-1968. New York. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-69903-4
  • 1993 Too Cool. New York. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-69903-4
  • 2004 Best Selling Albums of the 60s. London. Barnes & Noble / Amber Books. ISBN-10:‎ 1906842043   ISBN-13:  978-1906842048
  • 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 978-1535483827
  • 2021 For the Records: Close Encounters with Popular Music. ISBN 97898776266850

References

  1. ↑ "Eugene Paul Sculatti, Born 01/30/1947 in California". CaliforniaBirthIndex.org.
  2. ↑ "THE MAJESTIC WEST SCROLLGene Sculatti — Wimpole Street Writers". Wimpolestreetwriters.com. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
  3. ↑ Henderson, Richard (2010). Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4411-4315-0.
  4. ↑ Frank, Thomas C. (1997). Baffler: The Journal That Blunts the Cutting Edge. Baffler. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-888984-09-5.
  5. ↑ "Gene Sculatti". Rock's Backpages. n.d.
  6. ↑ Fenterstock, Alison (July 22, 2015). "Dr. John's '60s, '70s Atlantic singles collected in new compilation, due out Sept. 18". Nola.com.
  7. ↑ O'Rourke, Sally (November 10, 2016). "BOOK: Gene Sculatti, 'Tryin' to Tell a Stranger 'Bout Rock and Roll: Selected Writings, 1966-2016'". Rebeat.
  8. ↑ "GENE SCULATTI". RAW VISION. Retrieved October 30, 2025.