"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
You Tell Me – in session for Marc Riley – BBC 6 Music – October 11, 2018 – BBC 6 Music – More new faces on the horizon this week. You Tell Me is a collaboration between Peter Brewis of Field Music and Sarah Hayes of Admiral Fallow, both bands...
Chief Justice Warren Burger – The State Of The judiciary – August 10, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Chief Justice Warren Burger, the 15th Justice of The Supreme Court, serving as Chief Justice from 1969-1986. Burger was a strong supporter of Eisenhower and in 1952 was appointed by...
October 15, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 15, 1979 – A day of firsts; on this day, Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng arrived in Paris for a six day visit as the first stop of a trip through Western Europe. It was the...
Pierre Mercure: La Rite du Soleil Noir – CBC Symphony – Jean Beaudet, Cond. – CBC Transcription Service – Back up to Canada this week for a performance of La Rite du Soleil Noir by Pierre Mercure. This is a broadcast session originally aired in 1957, featuring the CBC Symphony,...
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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