"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Chelsea In Session – John Peel – June 21, 1977 – BBC Radio 1 – Chelsea in session for John Peel tonight. Together since 1976, with a lot of changes in personnel, but still gigging and recording some 42 years later. Chelea got started in 1976. Three of the four...
March 14, 1967 – CBS Radio – Capitol Cloakroom – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Three months into 1967 and the voices calling for a withdrawal from Vietnam were getting louder. When things started spiraling out of hand in 1964, the majority of American people were solidly behind our involvement...
September 21, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 21, 1990 – As the wheels of war began to ratchet up louder and faster, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein took to the airwaves, breaking into the running of a popular Iraqi TV comedy to inform everyone...
CNBlue – Live in Japan – 2014 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – CNBlue to put us into a Friday frame of mind. Much has been written about the Music scene in Korea. At the moment, it seems to be a hotbed of “Boy Bands”, going under the Kpop banner;...
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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