"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
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...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC News Special – Biographies In Rhythm – July 26, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In the 1950s, as Jazz evolved and as Rhythm & Blues and Rock n’ Roll exploded on the scene, mainstream media were scratching their collective...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Francaix: Fantasie for Cello and Orch. – Maurice Gendron, Cello – Paris Radio Symphony – Eugenè Bigot, cond. – Rec. July 4, 1952 – Paris Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Back to classic and rare performances from French Radio in...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BSO In Rehearsal – Charles Munch, conducting – March 2, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This week’s installment of our Boston Symphony In Rehearsal series features the BSO under Charles Munch rehearsing two wildly different pieces on the same program....
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Wes Montgomery Group – Funkhaus Studio 10, Hamburg Germany – April 30, 1965 – NDR The legendary Wes Montomgery Group this weekend. It occurred to me that I hadn’t run any Montgomery on Past Daily since we got started. No good...
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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