"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Brian Auger & The Trinity, featuring Julie Driscoll – BBC – John Peel Program – October 7, 1968 – BBC Radio 1 A band that, sadly didn’t achieve the widespread recognition in this country they deserved at the time. Brian Auger...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR- Options In Education – Textbook Censorship – Dec. 11, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As long as there’s been education there have been people who rail against it. As long as there have been schools there are people who...
December 17, 1981: The world was taking a wait-and-see with the goings-on in Poland. Fears of mass demonstrations on the anniversary of the Gdansk Food Riots in 1970 brought a swift preemptive crackdown and proclamation of Martial law by Communist leader Wojciech Jaruzelski, with the hope of heading off a...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Hollies – live in Croatia – 1968 – Croatian TV Audio Continuing from last night, here is another example of a British Invasion-era band live. This time it’s The Hollies recorded in concert in Croatia from 1968. Not during their...
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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