"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Menace Beach – in session for Marc Riley – BBC 6 music – September 6, 2018 – BBC 6 Music – Menace Beach for a Thursday night. Recorded earlier today for Marc Riley at BBC 6 Music, it comes on the heels of the release of their latest album, Black...
CBS Radio – Capitol Cloakroom – February 1, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Poverty. In 1967 much of the focus on poverty and the programs proposed by President Johnson through his Great Society and War On Poverty programs focused much of the attention on poverty in the inner-cities...
September 6, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 6, 2000 – A day of hearings and questions in Court and on Capitol Hill. The ongoing hearings regarding safety issues over tires made by Firestone brought about angry outbursts from members...
Seiji Ozawa and The Boston Symphony with Birgit Finnilae, Contralto – Mahler: Symphony No. 3 – April 30, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert this week (a little late for Anti-Road Rage Wednesday, but Mahler works just about every day) – The Boston Symphony conducted by...
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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