"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: This Is San Francisco – Jan. 11, 1950 The thing about history is that it’s not always about the sweeping gestures and defining moments over a period of time. Those “do you remember where you were when . . .” moments are pretty...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: FDR – State of The Union Jan. 11, 1944 Recovering from a bad case of the Flu, President Roosevelt delivered the 1944 State of The Union address from the Oval Office, rather than in a Joint Session of Congress. The war had been...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for Week Ending January 11, 1975 The plate was fairly overflowing with news and crises, this week ending January 11th in 1975. Starting with news of the continuing War in Vietnam, or ” the recurring nightmare” as it was characterized by many...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Fratellis – Black Session- RFI – Jan. 31, 2007 The Fratellis fairly exploded on the scene in 2006, quietly went on hiatus in 2009 and reunited in 2012 for a charity gig with promises of more to come. Between that time they...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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