"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Puressence – in concert at Reading 1999 – BBC Radio 1 Puressence tonight. From a BBC broadcast at the 1999 Reading Festival. The Indie band from Manchester, who were inspired to play music after going to a Stone Roses concert in 1991, formed Puressence in 1992. Although the story is...
TV: Dream Or Nightmare – NPR – National Town Meeting – July 28, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – TV – we don’t think twice about it today. Between cable Television and on-line streaming, the choices of what to watch have become endless and often overwhelming. But just as...
July 27, 1974 – CBS Radio – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 27, 1974 – the end of a week that made history. The night before, a vote of 27-11 by the House Judiciary Committee, the first vote in over 100 years, to impeach...
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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