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Métal Urbain – In Session for John Peel – Recorded October 11, 1978 – Broadcast October 25, 1978 – BBC Radio 1 – Métal Urbain, in case you missed it, were one of the very first Punk groups to come out of France; many say THE first, but as was...
June 11, 1949 – President Harry S. Truman – Dedication to War Memorial In Little Rock – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 11, 1949 – On this day, President Truman was dedicating a park in Little Rock, Arkansas to the memory of those killed during World War One and...
June 11, 1940 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 11, 1940 – A fast moving day in the war. With German armies some 40 miles outside of Paris, and attacking French ports up and down the coast, visions of 1914...
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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