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Click on the link here to get you there – The Past Daily Fundraiser Here we are – day 3 and only a few more days to go before I stop annoying you until the middle of next year. I know a lot of you have come for a visit...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – 1968: Year of Revolution – December 14, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection 1968 has often been regarded as the year almost everything in our society came crashing down. We lost leaders, we lost faith, we lost innocence,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio: Spectrum – December 16, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In what was a landmark decision by the Virginia Supreme Court, the cause of equal rights for all won a victory in 1981. The question over whether or not...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC World Service News + From Our Own Correspondent – December 16, 2001 – BBC World Service Seems like another lifetime ago, but on this December 16th in 2001 we were just getting our feet wet in what was to become...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Kinks – Live In Paris – 1965 – ORTF, Paris Although the period of the “British Invasion” of the 1963-1965 is pretty well documented, a lot of what exists in the way of live performances comes from either the BBC...
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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