"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Charles Martin Loeffler – Music For Four Stringed Instruments – Coolidge String Quartet – RCA Victor 78 rpm set – M-534 – 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – More Americana this week – this time in the form of German-American composer/violinist Charles Martin Loeffler and an original set of...
Coleman Hawkins Quintet – live At Birdland – September 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Legends in Jazz this weekend – Coleman Hawkins, one of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: “there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was...
Soundtrack Recordings 1. Foreign Intrigue (Paul Durand) MGM – 2. Trapeze (Muir Mathieson) – Columbia – 1956 – Original 78 recordings. Lesser-known soundtracks to 1950s films tonight. Both these films are from 1956 and are poles apart in story and direction. Foreign Intrigue is a 1956 American Eastmancolor film noir...
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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