"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for audio player – America’s Composers – Eastman School Symphony, Dr. Howard Hanson, cond. – March 9, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Mid-Century Americana this weekend, but way of The Eastman School Symphony, conducted by Dr. Howard Hanson and featuring two movements from the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Stars Of Jazz w/Arnett Cobb and George Shearing – July 2, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Blowing Hot and Cool this weekend with a set featuring Arnett Cobb and His Orchestra and The George Shearing Quintet, recorded...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Dudek, Finnigan, Kreuger Band – Live At The Palladium, New York – July 18, 1978 – WPIX-FM I just ran across this, and realized it’s a rarity from a band that was together for a notoriously short period of time....
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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