"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Skip Bifferty in session for Top Of The Pops – 1968 – BBC Radio 1 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection There was certainly no shortage of bands climbing on the Psychedelia bandwagon in the late 1960s. A lot of them made...
Become a Patron! A slice of local Los Angeles history this weekend. Art Laboe was a regular fixture on the Los Angeles scene ever since he first went on the air in 1949. Hosting a nightly (or early morning) live show from Scrivner’s, a local drive-in where he interviewed patrons,...
Click on the link here for the Indiegogo Donation Page. 9 HOURS TO GO! The contributions continue – we’re still a ways away but it’s been a good outpouring of support for the archive and the preservation project. There’s still a little time left – if you haven’t made your...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio – Report On Integration – September 27, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As school desegregation began earlier in the month, the issue and resistance to it were continuing throughout the South. With Federal troops called out in Little...
Mott The Hoople – Live at The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium -April 12, 1974 – KMET-FM broadcast Become a Patron! Classic 70s this weekend – Mott The Hoople live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, broadcast live by KMET-FM in L.A. on April 12, 1974. Mott the Hoople had been...
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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