"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Blecaute (Blackout) – Que Samba Bom – 1949 Something out-of-the-ordinary, but not so unusual if you spend any time over here. Tonight it’s a single by the legendary Brazilian singer/Samba practitioner Blackout, or Blecaute as it was spelled in Brazil. Blecaute...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – London Grammar – Live at We Love Green Festival 2014 – Paris – May 29, 2014 – RFI Le Mouv` Band-To-Watch for 2014, London Grammar have been hitting the road in a big way this year. Already doing dates in the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Nightly News – June 2, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With reports slow to come in, news regarding the massive earthquake hitting Peru two days earlier painted a grim picture,guaranteed to get grimmer as the days went on. Initial...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC/NBC Blue Network – Address by Anthony Eden regarding Dunkirk – June 2, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In what began on the 31st of May and ended on June 4th of 1940, the largest evacuation of an army had...
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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