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Click on the link here for Audio Player: CBS Radio Workshop – The Voice Of New York – March 2, 1956 In the 1950’s, reel to reel tape recorders were the equivalent to iPhones today. Everybody had to have one and everybody felt the overpowering need to record everything imaginable....
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Thelonious Monk – Live in Mainz – 1967 Visiting the legendary Thelonius Monk this weekend, featuring his Nonet in a concert recorded from Mainz, Germany on November 8, 1967. Luckily for everyone, a lot of Monk’s material was recorded live, and most...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Lianne La Havas Live at Trianon – February 19, 2013 Over to Paris this weekend for a set by 2012 BBC Faces To Watch Nominee, Lianne La Havas. By all indications, she’s arrived. A newly released album that’s getting incredible word of...
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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