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Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Soup Dragons, In session for John Peel – 1986 – BBC Radio Something slightly more familiar (at least to some of you) tonight. The Soup Dragons got started in 1985 and finished up in 1995. Between those ten years they released...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Marian McPartland – in concert at St. Anselm College, New Hampshire – November 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Within days of losing one legendary figure in Jazz piano (Cedar Walton), now comes word of the passing of Marian McPartland. Both pianists...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The New York Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl – September 1, 1963 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player: The New York Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl – September 1, 1963 – Part 2 Become a Patron! Another extreme rarity...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CBS Radio – Face The Nation + Hourly News – August 21, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A day of stark contrasts from opposite sides of the world, this August 21st in 1983. At home, attention was on Capitol Hill and...
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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