"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Sunoco Three-Star Extra with Lowell Thomas – July 3, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Hate to bug you, but: Become a Patron! This day in 1947 had a lot to do with looking skyward. Reports from all over the country indicated sightings of brightly colored objects in various...
– CBS World News Roundup – July 3, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Two important events for this July 3rd in 1989. First, the passing of longtime symbol of the Cold War and face of the Soviet Union, Andrè Gromyko was announced in Moscow that morning. Gromyko, who...
– Belle and Sebastian – Live At Glastonbury 2015 – June 28, 2015 – BBC 6 Music Continuing Summer Festival season with a performance by Belle and Sebastian. With 19 years together and a new album out this year, Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance, Belle and Sebastian are hitting...
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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