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Click on the link here for Audio Player – 1979 Salzburg Festival – Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, Cond. – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – 1979 Salzburg Festival – Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, Cond. – Part 2 More historic concerts this week....
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC News Of The World – August 6, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection While the war was raging in other parts of the world, the Germans were settling down to their newly-occupied France, this August 6th in 1940, and taking...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – August 6, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this August 6th in 1980 was decidedly political in nature. It was a Presidential election year. The Popularity/promise-them-anything campaign was in full swing. The latest was...
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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