"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Monochrome Set in Session for John Peel – Feb. 14, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 The Monochrome Set tonight. One of my favorite late 70s bands who were very difficult to describe, musically. Best as I could figure, The Monochrome...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Voce Quartet in Concert at Festival of Summer Nights – August 2, 2014 – Radio France Musique Over to Paris this week for a concert featuring Rising Young Stars recipients Quatuor Voce (The Voce Quartet) in a program of music...
Click on the link here for Audio Player– 1. Radio Paris – Arrival of DeGaulle – August 26, 1944 – 2. U.S. Army arrives in Paris – August 27,1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seventy years ago the strains of a free Paris Radio echoed throughout the Capital, as General Le...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Adlai Stevenson – Address to 1964 Democratic Convention – August 27, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection During a day filled with solemn tributes and loud celebrations. UN Ambassador, former Governor of Illinois and two-time Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson offered a...
August 27, 1964 – on this day, Robert F. Kennedy addressed the capacity audience in Atlantic City to introduce a film in tribute to his brother President John F. Kennedy. In an emotion-charged display, the Convention erupted into wild cheers and applause in a demonstration lasting over 15 minutes, leaving...
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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