"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – XTC – In Concert At Old Waldorf, San Francisco – Feb. 25, 1980 – ©Terry Hammer Archives One of the bands that made the 80s something to talk about, XTC were around longer than they performed live; six out of almost...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Carpenters – Live At Jaap Eden Hal, Amsterdam – Nov. 16, 1976 – VPRO, Hilversum Whatever your feelings are about the legacy of Karen and Richard Carpenter (and I know it runs the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous), one...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – 1960 Democratic Convention Preview – July 5, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection It’s just the season – Summer. Every four years between July and August, it brings out the horserace known as a Presidential election. Conventions are...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Senator Everett Dirksen on Issues and Answers – July 5, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Heading into the Republican Convention of 1964, this day 50 years ago American media was taken up with the subject of who would run against...
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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