"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The World This Week – Feb. 25, 1979 With grossly inflated casualty and capture claims coming from both sides, the war between China and Vietnam was heating up, this week in February, 1979. And with clucks of “this could be the start...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Eastman-Rochester Symph. 1945 Another dose of Americana tonight, by way of the venerable Eastman-Rochester Symphony, conducted by none other than Howard Hanson. A recreation of a portion of the first concert given spotlighting new American composers which the Eastman-Rochester Symphony took part...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: JJJohnsonQuintet1957-06-14KarlaplanStudiosStockholmSweden A broadcast session this weekend, from the legendary J.J. Johnson, and his Quintet, featuring Bobby Jaspar on tenor sax, Tommy Flanagan on piano, Wilber Little on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. Recorded on June 14, 1957 by Sveriges Radio inStockholm, this...
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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