"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Roots Of Racism and Prejudice – The Open Mind – September 14, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Racism, it seems, has always been with us. Whether its overt or subtle, sanctioned or scorned, that idea of one race of people considering themselves superior over another has been a...
Jimi Hendrix, The Alan Price Set, The Move, Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, The Kinks – Top Of The Pops – December 29, 1967 – BBC Transcription Service – Ending up the week with a completely classic show for a lot of reasons, not the least being Jimi Hendrix and what...
Thomas E. Dewey – Campaign address – September 25, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Thomas E. Dewey – probably not a name that rings a lot of bells these days, but in 1944 and 1948 he was the Republican Candidate for President, running first against Franklin Roosevelt and...
September 29, 1973 – Not enough we had Nixon and Watergate to weather through, we now had a scandal involving vice-President Spiro Agnew, which was not going to go away anytime soon. Seems the issue stemmed from his time as Governor of Maryland, prior to his selection by then-candidate Nixon...
Top Of The Pops – Procol Harum, The Troggs, The Hollies, The Foundations, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich – November 24, 1967 – BBC Transcription Service – Another installment of Top Of The Pops this week – Tonight, its from November 24, 1967 and features live performances by...
September 28, 1944 – NBC News of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 28, 1944 – Despite upbeat assessments and advances along some fronts, the expected crossing of the Siegfried Line into Germany hadn’t been accomplished yet. There was still plenty of resistance and it prompted Prime...
Top Of The Pops – April 19,1968 – BBC Transcription Service – Top Of The Pops tonight – this session, or series of sessions is from April 19, 1968 and features The Idle Race, Donovan, Grapefruit, Freddy and The Dreamers and The Spencer Davis Group. As part of The BBC’s...
Orchestre National de France – Tugan Sokhiev, cond. Truls Mork, Cello – October 8, 2009 – Radio France Musique – Something of more recent vintage this weekend. A concert by the celebrated Orchestre National de France conducted by the Russian-Ossetian wünderkind, Tugan Sokhiev and featuring Truls Mork as cello soloist....
NPR: America’s Town Meeting – “Our Energy Policy: Do We Have One?” – July 25, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the 70s went along, from its beginnings in 1970 as Earth Day, a steady stream of attention had been applied to alternative sources of Energy and conserving...
September 27, 1990 – CBS News Update – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 27, 1990 – News on this day was hovering around Capitol Hill, where Supreme Court Justice-designate David Souter got the nod and became the latest Justice to serve on the highest court....
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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