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A very special and rare concert tonight from a very special and rare legend. Tim Buckley, like his son, left us far too soon. What Tim left behind, much the same as what Jeff left behind, is a recorded legacy rich, but wanting for more. There just aren’t that many...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Sec. of Defense Robert McNamara – Press briefing – ABC Radio – June 16, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Briefings like these were starting to become a regular occurrence during the Vietnam War. Bolstering confidence, pushing an agenda, pleading a...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – June 16, 1998 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In what was billed as the “first-ever birth on the World Wide Web“, streaming video of an actual child birth came into being, this June 16, 1998. The...
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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