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The House Of Love – In Session For John Peel – June 7, 1988 – BBC Radio 1 The House Of Love tonight – their first session for John Peel, recorded on June 7, 1988 and broadcast on June 20th. Forming in 1986, House Of Love quickly rose in popularity,...
Boston Symphony – 1976 – Part 1: Boston Symphony – 1976 – Part 2: Another historic concert. This week it’s the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood in 1976 during the Berkshire Festival, guest conducted by Klaus Tennstedt and featuring pianist Malcolm Frager in an all-Beethoven program. Starting off with the Overture...
ABC Radio: Storm Over The Himalayas – India-Pakistan at War – Sept. 19, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the latest series of news reports regarding fighting going on between India and Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir region, I was reminded of an earlier war – a war...
BBC World Service – Newsdesk – October 19, 1998 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 19, 1998 – A view of the world on this October day, as presented by The BBC World Service. Chilean Dictator General Augusto Pinochet was facing extradition and arrest by two Spanish judges on...
Cut_ in session for 3VOOR12-FM, Amsterdam – October 12, 2016 – VPRO Relative newcomers Cut_ tonight. A Netherlands duo consisting of Sebastiaan Dutilh and Belle Doron, they have been around going on three years, have already gotten a lot of positive reaction, as well as a new single coming out...
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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