"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Kaleidoscope – live at The Newport Folk Festival – July 28, 1968 Not to be confused with the UK Psych band of the same name, the U.S. Kaleidoscope were one of the more eclectic assemblages of musicians ever to hit the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Amiata Piano Festival – June 29, 2013 – RAI Radio 3 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Amiata Piano Festival – June 29, 2013 – RAI Radio 3 – Part 2 Over to Rome this...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – United Nations – Interview with Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha – April 30, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the Post-War World continued on the long road to recovery, and as the Cold War World began to take shape, a wave...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC News Of The World/World News Roundup – April 30, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1945 was about the continuing war in Europe, despite an almost constant flood of rumors to the contrary. The latest...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Caravan In session at Batalan – 1973 – French Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Perennial all-time favorites Caravan tonight, from a session recorded by French Radio in 1973 live at La Bataclan. A few seconds over 20 minutes, it’s still...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – KPFK – Continuous coverage of Santa Barbara Riots – April 22, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Long before UC Santa Barbara became known as the #2 Party School in the country, UCSB was a hotbed of protest and activism. Not...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – James Taylor – Fillmore East (early show) January 25, 1971 Starting off the new week with something introspective and classic. James Taylor, live at The Fillmore East from January 1971. One of the truly great singer-songwriters of the past 40+ years,...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Opening of United Nations Conference, San Francisco – April 25, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Within days of the death of President Roosevelt, and within days of the final capitulation of Nazi Germany, nations gathered...
Now more than ever: Become a Patron! As news poured in on a daily basis regarding sweeping advances and the almost total destruction of Berlin and the German Army, it was only natural that news and rumors of surrender would begin to surface, this day in 1945. Early on the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Eagulls – live at Route du Rock Winter, St. Malo France – Feb. 22, 2014 – RFI Le Mouv Eagulls got together in 2010, and have been getting great reaction ever since. Hitting the road this year to promote their debut...
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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