"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – James Brown – live at the 1981 Montreux Festival – RSR (Swiss Radio) It’s the Godfather of Soul this weekend – the legendary James Brown, recorded in concert at the 1981 Montreux Festival. There isn’t a whole lot anybody can say...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Second Sunday: J.Edgar Hoover’s FBI – May, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Long before the days of Internet spying, domestic surveillance and government intrusion on privacy, we had J.Edgar Hoover. Hoover was the man behind the Federal...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – 10,000 Maniacs in concert at Sadlers Wells Theatre, London – 1988 – BBC 6 Music Jumping into the 80s tonight with a concert by 10,000 Maniacs, live in London at the Sadlers Wells Theatre in 1988 and recorded by the venerable...
Become a Patron! As all hopes were pinned on a response to an eleventh hour appeal from Prime Minister Chamberlain to Adolf Hitler, no one was taking any chances. And news for this day was about preparations and calling up reserves for what was sure to become another war. News...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Miguel – live at Malmö, Sweden – recorded live by Sveriges Radio P3 – August 5, 2013 Over to Malmö Sweden tonight for a mini-concert by West Coast native Miguel, recorded by Sveriges Radio in January of this year and broadcast...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – News from ABC Radio National (Australia) – BBC World Service – August 29, 2013 Click on the link here for Audio Player – News from Kol Israel – Radio Polonia (Warsaw) – CBC World Report – RFI, Paris – Voice of...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – News From Radio Berlin – News From EIAR, Rome – August 29, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the war of nerves intensified on this day in 1939, a last ditch effort at negotiations was still going on. Hanging in...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Blossom Toes – In Session at Bouton Rouge – February 10, 1968 We have that small, dedicated, somewhat loopy society of individuals known as The Record Collectors to thank for rescuing what has been, up to now, one of the most...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Sviatoslav Richter in recital at the 1986 Tivoli Music Festival – 1986 – American Public Radio – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Sviatoslav Richter in recital at the 1986 Tivoli Music Festival – 1986 –...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Voices And Events for the week ending August 28, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for the week ending on this August 28th in 1949 had much to do with a familiar meme; corruption, profiteering, influence peddling and bribery on...
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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