"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – My Brightest Diamond – Live at Soirée de Poche, Paris – February 7, 2015 – La Blogothèque. I can’t think of a better way to end a week, or start a new one, than listening to a...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Jean Vallerand – String Quartet – Montreal String Quartet – 1955 – CBC Transcription Service. More 20th Century music from Canada this week. Tonight it’s the World Premier performance of String Quartet No. 1 by Jean Vallerand,...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Sum & Substance – Gregor Piatigorsky – Feb. 24, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Gregor Piatigorsky was once described as being one of the greatest string players of all time. One of the reasons had much...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Ralph Flanagan Band – CBS Radio – September 19, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. I haven’t posted any Big Band in a while. If you discount Count Basie, Stan Kenton and Duke Ellington, then I really...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Conversation – Rock n’ Roll – July 29,1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Generation gaps. Yes, there was a huge one in 1956. Pop Music was going through a big change and a lot of...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Cure – Live At Glastonbury – June 21, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 Mid-80s Cure tonight. From their standout performance at the 1986 Glastonbury Festival, recorded by the venerable BBC Radio 1 on June 21, 1986....
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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