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Secret Affair – in session for John Peel – Recorded July 18, 1979 – Broadcast July 25 – BBC Radio 1 – Secret Affair to prepare for the upcoming week. Recorded for John Peel – July 18, 1979 -broadcast on July 25. Formed after the demise of the CBS Records...
E.J. Moeran – Serenade in G – Radio Eireann Symphony – Jean Martinon, Conductor – 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of E.J. Moeran this weekend – taking a small break from our festival of Americana (back next week . . .I promise). A performance, and I...
Interview with Vincent Willem van Gogh – Burton Cumming, Director of Communications, New York Graphic Society. – April 9, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Vincent Willem van Gogh, son of Theo and Johanna, was named after his famous uncle, but throughout his early years he strove to make...
Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, Charlie Byrd – Three Great Jazz Guitarists In Concert – Jazzfest Berlin – November 8, 1981 – RBB Radio Berlin – A summit meeting of legendary Jazz Guitarists this weekend. Herb Ellis, Charlie Byrd and Barney Kelles in concert at the 1981 Jazz Berlin – recorded...
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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