"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News – April 11, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this April 11th in 1972 was, by admission of the newscaster on this broadcast; busy. First was news regarding the ongoing war in Vietnam. The North Vietnamese offensive into...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Since festival season is kicking into gear this weekend with the opening of Coachella, I thought I would try and get some of you up to speed as to who you might possibly be missing, or might want to catch if you...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1: Russian State Symphony – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2: Russian State Symphony – Part 2 The 140th birthday party for Sergei Rachmaninoff continues from Moscow this week, with another concert –...
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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