"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audi Player – Booker T & Priscilla, live at The Matrix, San Francisco – April 15, 1971 Heading into seldom heard territory this weekend with a 1971 concert by Booker T & Priscilla, recorded at The Matrix in San Francisco on April 15,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Clifford Brown/Max Roach and Erroll Garner Trio – Live At Basin Street – CBS Radio – May 6, 1956 -Gordon Skene Sound Collection A repost from a few years ago. A significant and historic club date by a Jazz legend, gone...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Jesus Jones – In Concert at the Town & Country Club, London – February 27, 1991 – BBC Radio I haven’t heard very much about Jesus Jones lately. They are rumored to in on-again/off-again mode with no plans for releases or...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – News Commentaries – November 29, 1961 – NBC Radio Closed Circuit – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seems there was no end to hotspots around the world, this November 29th in 1961. Between allegations of attempted Cuban interference in elections in the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC News Of The World – November 29, 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Despite the news for this November 29th in 1942 bringing upbeat reports on progress on the War, it all took backseat to the devastating news of a...
Become a Patron! Thanksgiving with Jack Benny. It’s a safe bet that almost no one who is reading this blog for the first time will know who Jack Benny is. If you do, skip to the bottom, or hit the play button and forego the history lesson. In the early...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Chico Hamilton, Buddy Collette, Fred Katz – Reunion – San Diego City College – Sept. 9, 1975 More very sad news this year. It was reported earlier today that legendary percussionist Chico Hamilton passed away, from as yet unknown causes, at...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Boston Symphony, in concert – Erich Leinsdorf. Memorial Concert to JFK – Nov. 23, 1963 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Boston Symphony, in concert – Erich Leinsdorf. Memorial Concert to JFK –...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio: Headlines and Bylines – November 27, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the world breathing a cautious and temporary sigh of relief, now that the Munich Crisis was over, news for this November 27th in 1938 had much...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bettie Serveert – Live at Paradiso, Amsterdam – November 22, 1993 – VPRO/3FM Even with numerous personnel changes, Holland‘s Bettie Serveert continues treading the successful career they started with in 1990. Hailed as one of the first Indie bands of the...
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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