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Click on the link here for Audio Player – Be Bop Deluxe – live at Oxford – BBC Radio 1 Rock Goes To College – 1978 – BBC Be Bop Deluxe were a band the critics loved but the audience apparently only liked. Together in two short bursts – once...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC-Blue Network – RCA Magic Key – Minneapolis Symphony, Eugene Ormandy, conductor + Mischa Levitski, piano recital from Chicago – March 1, 1936 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Diving into more rare concerts of the 1930s again this week. This time...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Woody Herman And His Third Herd, live from Peony Park, Omaha – September 24, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Some 1950s big band this weekend. Woody Herman and his New Third Herd, live from Peony Park in...
Click on the link here for external Audio Player – NBC Radio – Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – Samuel Barber, guest Conductor – June 23, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Become a Patron! Continuing our ongoing series of historic rehearsal recordings with The Boston Symphony. This one features the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – James Day Interviews Sarah Vaughan – March 7, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Probably one of the most iconic and recognizable voices in music, Sarah Vaughan soared to the short-list of Women who changed and shaped the sound of vocal...
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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