"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Bessie Banks – Go Now + It Sounds Like My Baby – 1964, 1963 When I ran the BBC Session of the Moody Blues debut hit Go Now last night, I wanted to slip the original version...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – American Forum – American Film: 1956 – August 26, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Despite a lot of truly great, landmark and memorable films made in the 1950s, the film business was in dire straits. Television...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Paul Le Flem – Adagio – Paris Conservatory Orch. Andrè Cluytens, cond, – 1949 Besançon Festival – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Back over to France this week for the first performance of a work by French-Breton composer...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio – live in Stockholm 2011 – Sveriges Radio P2 The legendary Ron Carter this weekend. Recipient of the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame Award in 2012, Ron Carter’s career spans several...
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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