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Mustangs Of The West – Everybody Wants Peace On Earth – 2018 – Blue Elan Records – Revving up the Christmas spirit with a new single by Mustangs Of The West, just in time for the holidays. Since we’re devoting a lot of our nightly music posts with Christmas music...
Maurice Jaubert – Jeanne d’Arc (1937) : symphonie concertante for soli, choir and orchestra – Jacqueline Brumaire, Soprano – French National Orchestra – Jean Martinon, conductor – 1952 Concert performance. Continuing our seemingly endless archeological dig through the vault and unearthing broadcasts of rarities – here’s another one which should...
Arthur Knight in conversation with René Clair – Recorded November 22, 1958 – WNYC-FM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The history of Cinema is a long one – when you think about the technical advances, the changes in style, the milestones that paved the way for new voices and...
Thelonious Monk – Live in Stockholm – March 5, 1963 – Sveriges Radio – Thelonious Monk rounding out the holiday weekend. A concert recorded in Stockholm on March 5, 1963 by the venerable Sveriges Radio in Sweden and lovingly preserved for generations to come. The quartet features Charlie Rouse on...
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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