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The Striders – The Sheik Of Araby – Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts – Sept, 21, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Striders, comprising Eugene, Charles and James Strider and honorary Strider Ernest Griffin were a vocal group from Columbus Ohio, performing around the time of World War 2,...
Aimée Van de Wiele – Grunenwald: Suite de Danses for Harpsichord – ORTF, Paris Broadcast Recording 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Aimée Van de Wiele, one of the great Harpsichord players of the 20th century in a broadcast studio recording of the Suite de Danses by French contemporary...
Albert Finney In Conversation – circa 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A few words from Albert Finney this weekend. One of the leading lights of British Cinema of the early 1960s, Finney came to world-wide prominence in the Academy Award winning film Tom Jones in 1963. Prior to...
Nat “King” Cole with Quincy Jones Big Band – Live In Paris – April 19, 1960 – Radio France FIP – Much as I like to rely on my own archives to offer those unique and historic recordings on Past Daily, I run across something from someplace else that stops...
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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