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News for this day in 2001 – as reported by the BBC World Service. Click on the link at the Past Daily site and hear the original 1-hour broadcast from this day in history. And please don’t forget to chip…
Legendary band Wire, in session earlier today for the Marc Riley show at BBC 6 Music – click on the link at the Past Daily site and hear this session as it happened.
October 30, 1994 – ABC Radio Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 30, 1994 – Formal charges were filed this day against Martin Durand, the Colorado man tackled in front of the White House after spraying the…
The Beatles, Dusty Springfield, Brian Poole & The Tremeloes, The Migil 5, Marc Wynter – Top Of The Pops – Preview Show #00 – Aug-Sept. 1964 – BBC Transcription Service – The very first Top Of The Pops from the…
Florent Schmitt: Le petit elf Ferme-l’oeil – ORTF Orchestra, Cond. Eugène Bigot – ORTF Paris – circa 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It seems that most composers whose work had been popular during the 20th century, and whose…
Wardell Gray Live at Birdland – April 28, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Wardell Gray this weekend. One of the true guiding lights in Post-War Jazz, he was that link between Big-Band and small group Jazz, and his…
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Fats Domino in concert at Juan les Pins Jazz Festival, Antibes France – July 22, 1993 – Radio France – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Fats Domino this weekend. With the news of the passing of this music legend at…
Norman Mailer – Book Beat – May 4, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Norman Mailer- variously described as one of the greatest writers of his generation, an outspoken critic of society, a narcissist, an insufferable ego – a combination…