"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The Orb featuring Steve Hillage – live at The Fridge, Brixton – 1991 – BBC Radio 1 Space merchants The Orb tonight, featuring former Gong founding member and all-around leading light of the Canterbury scene, Steve Hillage as guest in what promises to be a 25 minute sonic adventure, and it...
Henry Cabot Lodge – Meet The Press – Dec. 21, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Henry Cabot Lodge had the somewhat unenviable position of being the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 1958. That year saw an increase in east-west tensions – the Cold War was escalating...
News for May 10, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 10, 1980 – depending on which continent you were, you were either nervous or celebrating. In Iran, Parliamentary elections were taking place, and in the second round of voting, it was looking like...
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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