"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Jean Sablon – Nous Revient ep -VDSM – 7 EGF-360 – Dec. 4, 1958 – Jean Sablon – known as The French Bing Crosby, whose popularity rivaled that of fellow Frenchman Maurice Chevalier, was a popular and much admired singer worldwide. He briefly had a radio show for CBS in...
Roussel – Symphony Number 3 – French National Orchestra – Pierre Dervaux, Cond. French Radio Broadcast 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Covering some familiar territory this week. Usually, it’s a case of underrated and overlooked composers or composers whose work has fallen into neglect in recent years. Not...
Art Blakey – Jazz Messengers – Live In Zurich – December 4, 1958 – Swiss Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Art Blakey this weekend. A concert recorded in Zurich Switzerland on December 4, 1958 and broadcast by Swiss Radio. A few well-chosen words from The Estate Of Art...
Iggy Pop – live At Rock en Seine – August 28, 2016 – RFI – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the shocking and tragic death of Anthony Bourdain only yesterday, it’s been hard to focus on much else, other than the staggering loss and the remarkable soul who was...
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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