"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Big Flame – in session for John Peel – May 4, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 – Big Flame in session for John Peel to end the week. Often referred to as one of the more influential bands nobody ever talks about anymore, Big Flame were around for a comparatively...
June 15, 1973 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 15, 1973 -Busy news day – Starting with President Nixon going to Pekin Illinois to visit the birthplace of the late Everett Dirksen. Nixon and Everrett Dirksen’s widow unveiled the cornerstone of a new research center...
June 15,1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 15, 1995 – A day focused on the madness in Eastern Europe. The Battle for Sarajevo had begun. Bosnian Serb Military officials claimed that government troops had been raining artillery fire on a town just...
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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