"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Marvin Gaye – Live at Budokan, Tokyo – November 13, 1979 – NHK-FM Japan – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Marvin Gaye to help the festivities along tonight. Recorded live at Budokan in Tokyo by NHK-FM on November 13, 1979. From Wikipedia: Marvin Gaye has been called “the number-one purveyor...
Bing Crosby – Rosemary Clooney – CBS Radio – April 6, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney from their five-day-a-week radio program, The Crosby-Clooney Show from April 6, 1962. While most people think Rock Music took over the airwaves and the record stores starting...
Jean Shepherd – WOR, New York – Army Thanksgiving – November 23, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Jean Shepherd – Most people these days know him as the guy who wrote and narrated A Christmas Story, but Jean Shepherd was an institution. Primarily in New York throughout 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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