"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Gene – live in Paris – 1994 – Black Session – RFI – Gene in concert to close out Friday – recorded in Paris for the Black Sessions at Radio France International in 1994. Gene rose to fame in the early ‘90s thanks to the buzz created by the British...
H.W. van Loon – Commentary: Relief – NBC Red Network – May 23, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – America in the midst of the Great Depression – still trying to recover, some 8 years after the initial Stock Market crash. Still going through fits and starts on what...
July 10, 1943 – War Telescope – Morgan Beatty – NBC Red Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – For the price of a humdrum latte: Become a Patron! July 10, 1943 – News from Europe this day and it was all about the invasion of Sicily which took place...
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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