"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Sofie Winterson – live at Noorderslag 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR12 – The Netherlands A new face on the horizon tonight. Sofie Winterson is a Dutch singer-songwriter, fronting a four piece group and currently making waves around Europe. With a debut album ready...
Another historic concert this week. This time featuring the New York Philharmonic in a 1978 broadcast concert featuring guest Conductor Rafael Kubelik in program of music by Dvorak, Honegger and Brahms. Son of a well-known violinist, Jan Kubelík, he was trained in Prague, and made his debut with the Czech...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio Department Of Talks – Governor Frank Murphy: A Fair Deal For Labor – Sept. 24, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With all the news in recent years about labor, unions, “right-to-work” and the anti-union movement, it’s important...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio: Overseas Assignment – Coup in South Vietnam – Week ending February 20, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As if there weren’t enough indications that America had gotten itself involved in a shooting war in Vietnam sooner rather than...
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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