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The Supremes – KHJ 2nd Annual Appreciation Concert – April 29, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 2021 is offering no let-up in loss – and we thought 2020 was bad. The sad news just yesterday of the passing of Mary Wilson, founder and backbone of the Supremes offered...
February 9, 1942 – News From Radio Chungking – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 9, 1942 – With distant and crackling sound, fading in and out, Radio Chungking reported that Japanese forces had landed at Singapore. One of many events taking place that day. Asia was wrapped up in...
February 9, 1971. If you lived in Los Angeles this day, all that was on your mind was the earthquake that tossed you out of bed around 6 in the morning, the aftershocks that continued to rumble all day and into the night. No lights, no gas, no phones –...
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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