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American music journalist (born 1947)

Gene Sculatti Born Eugene Paul Sculatti (1947-01-30) January 30, 1947 (age 79)[1][2] San Francisco, California, U.S. Occupation Music journalist

**Eugene Paul Sculatti** (born January 30, 1947) is an American [music journalist](/source/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](/source/San_Francisco_Sound) in a national magazine (*[Crawdaddy!](/source/Crawdaddy!)*).[5] He is formerly an editorial director for [Warner Bros. Records](/source/Warner_Bros._Records) and the magazine *[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))*.[6] He has also written for *[Rolling Stone](/source/Rolling_Stone)*, *[Creem](/source/Creem)*, and *[Radio & Records](/source/Radio_%26_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](/source/Outsider_art).

## Bibliography

- 1982 *The Catalog of Cool*. New York. Warner Books. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-446-37515-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-446-37515-3)

- 1984 *Popcorn: America's Amazing Obsession*. New York. Long Shadow Books / Simon & Schuster. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-671-49682-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-671-49682-1)

- 1985 *San Francisco Nights: The Psychedelic Music Trip 1965-1968*. New York. St. Martin's Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-312-69903-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-312-69903-1)

- 1993 *Too Cool*. New York. St. Martin's Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-312-69903-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-312-69903-1)

- 2004 *Best Selling Albums of the 60s.* London. Barnes & Noble / Amber Books. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-906842-04-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-5354-8382-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5354-8382-7)

- 2021 *For the Records: Close Encounters with Popular Music.*

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Eugene Paul Sculatti, Born 01/30/1947 in California"](https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/eugene_paul_sculatti_born_1947_3518473). CaliforniaBirthIndex.org.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["THE MAJESTIC WEST SCROLLGene Sculatti — Wimpole Street Writers"](http://www.wimpolestreetwriters.com/gazetteblog/2016/3/10/the-mage). *Wimpolestreetwriters.com*. Retrieved July 7, 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Henderson2010_3-0)** Henderson, Richard (2010). [*Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle*](https://books.google.com/books?id=bPCRLeijKh8C&pg=PT6). Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 6. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-4411-4315-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4411-4315-0).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Frank1997_4-0)** Frank, Thomas C. (1997). [*Baffler: The Journal That Blunts the Cutting Edge*](https://books.google.com/books?id=w7r3Rl7ttVAC). Baffler. p. 194. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-888984-09-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-888984-09-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Gene Sculatti"](https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/gene-sculatti). *[Rock's Backpages](/source/Rock's_Backpages)*. n.d.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Fenterstock, Alison (July 22, 2015). ["Dr. John's '60s, '70s Atlantic singles collected in new compilation, due out Sept. 18"](http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/07/dr_johns_60s_70s_atlantic_sing.html). *Nola.com*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** O'Rourke, Sally (November 10, 2016). ["BOOK: Gene Sculatti, 'Tryin' to Tell a Stranger 'Bout Rock and Roll: Selected Writings, 1966-2016'"](http://www.rebeatmag.com/book-gene-sculatti-tryin-to-tell-a-stranger-bout-rock-and-roll-selected-writings-1966-2016/). *Rebeat*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["GENE SCULATTI"](https://rawvision.com/blogs/articles/gene-sculatti). *RAW VISION*. Retrieved October 30, 2025.

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