"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Gengahr – Live at PIAS Nites, Paris – March 10, 2015 Gengahr are one of the most talked-about bands currently on the Indie/Psych roster of up-and-comers for 2015. Around (officially) since 2012, Gengahr (who called themselves RES...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio: Second Sunday – Oct. 10, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Even before his memorable Military-Industrial Complex Farewell address in 1961, President Eisenhower was all too aware of just how out-of-control military spending would become....
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Hourly News – March 31, 1990 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this last day of March in 1990 had much to do with the rapidly-becoming-former Soviet Union. March 1990 was Lithuania’s turn – a...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Vivian Stanshall’s Big Grunt – In Session for John Peel – March 16, 1970 – BBC Radio 1 How do you explain The Bonzo Dog Band to people who have never heard of The Bonzo Dog Band?...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Hearing Time – Teamsters Hearings – March 26, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. The decade of the 50s will go down, at least in part, as the Decade Of The Congressional Committee Hearing. Seemingly every week...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Alka-Seltzer News Of The World – March 30, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. A busy and “interesting” news day, this March 30th in 1948. Starting with news on the upcoming elections in Italy, which were awash...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 30, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another busy news day, this March 30th, 20 years ago. With word from Capitol Hill of the defeat of a Term Limits amendment, the...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – First Aid Kit – Live at Bern Hotel, Stockholm – 2014 – Sveriges Radio P3 I think I’ve said this before, but there must be something in the water supply in Sweden the past few years, because...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Vaughan-Williams: Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – NY Phil. – Bruno Walter – Approx. Feb. 15, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Very familiar territory this weekend, played by one of the world’s great orchestras,...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Sarah Vaughan and her Trio – Live In Berlin – November 9, 1969 – RBB Radio Berlin One of my all-time favorites this weekend. Sarah Vaughan in concert from Berlin this weekend, recorded on November 9, 1969....
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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