"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Roy Harris Conducts The American Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra – 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Americana this week, by way of composer Stanley Finn, as interpreted by his contemporary Roy Harris in a circa 1946 broadcast recording of his Prelude and...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Joe Pyne Show – 1965 – Syndicated Series – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Much as we like to think the current state of talk radio is something new, it’s not. Going from the polite and civilized to the argumentative and inflammatory...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Lenox School of Jazz Concert – August 29, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection One of those All-Star occasions; a celebration of the Lenox School of Jazz featuring a virtual who’s who in the Jazz world, all crammed into the Music...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – 3 by Francoise Hardy – Viens,Chanson d’O, Et Meme – Disques Vogue Something different tonight. The legendary Francoise Hardy in three songs, typical of her inimitable style. Part of that early 60s phenomenon of French singing style known as yè-yè, Hardy...
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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