"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Candidate – in session at BBC 6 Music – March 9, 2002 – BBC 6 Music – Candidate in session tonight – recorded at BBC 6 Music on March 9, 2002. It’s not quite clear whether they are still together or on hiatus -their website stops at 2012 and there...
January 31, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 31, 2000 -The morning after – The St. Louis Rams held off the Tennessee Titans last minute play to preserve their 23-16 lead and to take Super Bowl 34. It was the first Super Bowl...
Tapes n’Tapes – live At Indian Summer Festival – Glasgow – 2006 -BBC 6 Music – A little something from this side of the Atlantic for mid-week. Minneapolis Indie stalwarts Tapes n’ Tapes, recorded in concert at the 2006 Indian Summer Festival in Glasgow by the inimitable BBC 6 Music....
Elisabeth Leonskaja and Christoph Eschenbach – NDR Symphony – In Concert – May 3, 2009 – Radio France Musique – Certainly qualifies as a quintessential Wednesday Anti-Road Rage concert this week. The legendary Russian/Austrian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, together with Christoph Eschenbach and the North German Radio Symphony in a concert...
January 30, 1996 – NPR Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 30, 1996 – A day loaded with politics and campaigns. The Senate seat in Oregon vacated by Bob Packwood was now being hotly contested as voters were making their way to polling booths in what was...
The High Fidelity – in concert – Union Chapel, London – March 29, 2000 – Broadcast live by John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – The High Fidelity in concert tonight. Recorded live at Union Chapel on March 29, 2000 and mc’d by John Peel at BBC Radio 1. The...
January 29, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 29, 1994 – And if you lived in Los Angeles, the earth continued to be loaded with surprises. During the night, Southern California was greeted with three strong aftershocks from the earthquake that hit over...
Pulp – Live At Reading 2002 – August 23, 2002 – broadcast by John Peel – August 28, 2002 – BBC Radio 1 – Pulp – in concert at Reading Festival 2002. From August 23, 2002, recorded and broadcast by John Peel on August 28, 2002. A significant concert, though...
January 28, 1981 – CBS Radio News + The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 28, 1981 -A busy news day and much of it coming from Washington. Starting with news that Price controls on gas and oil and petroleum were to be removed. Keeping a campaign...
NBC Blue Network – The Magic Key – Grace Moore – Byron Janis and many others – Feb. 12, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another installment of The Magic Key this weekend. featuring the celebrated Soprano, Grace Moore as well as a 10 year old Piano Prodigy Byron...
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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