"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Janis Joplin and The Kozmic Blues Band – Texas International Pop Festival, Dallas – Aug. 30, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. More Festivals – but tonight it’s 1969 and it’s the Texas International Pop Festival in...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Stonewall 25 – Human Rights March – June 26, 1994 – Pacifica – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. . . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Pacifica – Remembering Stonewall –...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – President Truman addresses closing of San Francisco Conference – June 26, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. 70 years ago today, on June 26, 1945 there was cause for celebration. A cautious one, because we were still...
Day 25 – 6 days left. We have a LOT of catching up to do if we’re going to make anywhere near our goal. Contributions are still trickling in – and for that, I’m grateful. In this case a flood would be great – but anything is a positive sign...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Strand Of Oaks- live at Best Kept Secret 2015 – June 19, 2015 – VPRO-3VOOR12 Back to Summer Festivals – more from Best Kept Secret from last weekend. Homegrown this time, by way of Stand Of Oaks,...
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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