"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CBC Radio Documentary – Ugly Teenage Girls – 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection For all that we complain about our society today becoming the glorification of the grotesque, how our perceptions of beauty have become so twisted and mangled out of...
With news for this July 23rd in 1951 focused on President Truman‘s upbeat assessment of the country mid-way through 1951 and cautious reports on negotiations in Korea toward an armistice, news regarding the rest of the world brought a faint remembrance of things from the not-too-distant past and a reminder...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Band of Susans – in session for John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – October 10, 1988 They had a good ten-year run, going from 1986-1996. One of the premier Noise Rock bands out of New York, Band of Susans garnered...
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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