"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Gong – In Session for John Peel – Nov. 17, 1971 – BBC Radio 1 Hearing the very sad news today regarding Soft Machine founder and Gong leading light Daevid Allen’s emotional farewell, owing to a deteriorating...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Adlai Stevenson – Launching Presidential Candidacy – February 4, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Adlai Stevenson is a name most people these days are completely unfamiliar with. But if you are of a certain age, and...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – February 5, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. And things were heating up in the Middle East, this day 36 years ago. Ayatollah Khomeini appointed Scholar and pro-democracy advocate Mehdi Bazargan as...
Stepping outside our usual comfort zone for a bit to give you an update on our Emergency Fundraiser. We’re three days into trying to keep Past Daily up and running and keep the archive from falling into the dumpster. It’s been a horrific month so far, and we’re only five...
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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