"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Teenage Fanclub – In Session for John Peel – Sept. 30, 1990 – BBC Radio 1 A sampling of early 90s tonight (and perhaps a week’s worth of 90’s) with Teenage Fanclub, a Scottish Alternative band who...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Erich Leinsdorf and The Rochester Philharmonic – April 4, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Something not completely rare tonight, but historic nonetheless. Erich Leinsdorf was Music Director for The Rochester Philharmonic between 1947 and 1955. Prior...
I grew up listening to Piano legend Dame Myra Hess because as a kid, I wasn’t trusted with the lps in my parents collection and was relegated to the breakable, scratchy 78’s I got at Salvation Army Thrift shops because they were cheap at the time and everybody was getting...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Jazz At Lincoln Center – Music Of John Lewis and Gerry Mulligan – Jazz At Lincoln Center Two favorites given a contemporary look-over as part of the Jazz At Lincoln Center radio series from 2014. The Music...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Backstage Press interviews – 1990 Grammy© Awards – Feb. 22, 1990 -Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Since today is a big day in the Music Business (or it used to be), I thought it might be good to...
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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