"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– The Specials – In session for John Peel – BBC – May 23, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – Since I began the week with The Bodysnatchers, the all-female Ska/Rocksteady group via the legendary Two-Tone label, I thought I would continue with a session from The Specials, probably the...
– Al Gore Acceptance Speech – 2000 Democratic National Convention – August 17, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 17, 2000. Doesn’t seem that long ago, in retrospect. But what happened in the intervening years probably changed the world a few times over. On August 17th, 2000, vice-President...
– CBS Radio – Special Broadcast from Ie Shima Island – August 18, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the end of hostilities just days earlier on August 15th, the process of making the surrender official began. On the morning of August 18th, a plane carrying a surrender...
– CBS World News Roundup – Late Edition – August 18, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day 15 years ago it was Campaign 2000 in full swing. With Al Gore consummating the nomination the previous night, he set out to do some one-on-one campaigning on the Mississippi....
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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