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Cinerama – In session for John Peel – recorded May 13, 2001 – broadcast May 24, 2001 – BBC Radio 1 – Cinerama in session for John Peel tonight – their seventh of an astonishing ten sessions the band did for Peel throughout the late 90s/early 000’s. Fronted by David...
Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony in Rehearsal – Schumann: Symphony No. 1 – Dec. 23, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary Alsatian-born, French-German conductor Charles Munch, in rehearsal with the Boston Symphony from this broadcast of December 23, 1950. The broadcast features the BSO and Munch...
Big Maybelle, The Moonglows, Sam “The Man” Taylor – Alan Freed – Camel Rock n’Roll Dance Party – September 4, 1956 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another installment of this iconic and historic document of early Rock n’ Roll. This one features one of the rare...
Roy Hargrove Quintet w/The Detroit Festival Orchestra – Live at The Detroit Jazz Festival – September 3, 2016 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – More sad news this week. In a year that has already seen unfathomable loss of so many iconic artists, we can add the name Roy Hargrove...
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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