"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
. . . click on the link here for Audio Player – Simple Minds – In Session for John Peel – December 19, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 Early Simple Minds tonight. The first session done for John Peel at The BBC, recorded on December 19, 1979. Still in the...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – News reports + CBS World News Roundup – February 25, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Fifteen years ago, on February 25, 2000, after three days of deliberations, a jury of 8 whites and 4 blacks in...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Story Behind The Headlines – February 25, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seventy years ago today, on February 25th, 1945 news was crammed with reports of great advances in Europe. The Allied armies were on the...
There are those “glass is half empty/glass is half full” people around who look at situations and try to make the best or worst of them. I’m somewhere in the middle at the moment. The Fundraiser has been down to a trickle, but a trickle nonetheless. It’s cause for optimism,...
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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