"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The Magic Key Program – NBC Red and Blue Networks – November 11, 1936 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another installment of the NBC/RCA Victor variety program The Magic Key. This time, celebrating the 10th anniversary of both the Red and Blue networks of NBC and marking the third...
Documentary Recordings from The protests and Police actions – Paris 1968 – Institut des Archives Sonores, Paris – While the drama currently unfolds in the streets of Paris and other cities and towns all across France, many are making comparisons to the actions of the “Gilets Jaunes” or “Yellow Vests”...
Ella Fitzgerald – In Concert From Helsinki – March 23, 1965 – YLE-Finnish Radio – The First Lady Of Song this weekend. The inimitable Ella Fitzgerald, in concert from Helsinki recorded in March 1965 and recorded by YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting network. There’s not much you can add about the...
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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