"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Shed Seven – In Session at BBC Radio 1 – 1994 – BBC Radio 1 – Shed Seven to kick off the week. One of the criminally overlooked and underrated bands of the Post-Smiths/Britpop era, Shed Seven never got the mainstream attention peers like Oasis and Blur got, but they...
John Foster Dulles – Address to Associated Press Luncheon – April 22, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The issue of American Foreign Policy has been in the spotlight recently, with the recent developments in our relations with North Korea as well as the ongoing issues with Iran and...
April 23, 1989 – CBS Radio Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 23, 1989 – A day loaded with mixed emotions. The arrival at port of the Battleship USS Iowa, where an explosion in one of the ship’s gun turrets claimed the lives of some 47 sailors....
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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