When Stereo came into being and every home in America had to have one, one of the most popular items for every budding hi-fi enthusiast to have in their collection for bragging rights was the Sound Effects Record – the one where either a freight train lumbered from your right
– Dexter Gordon Quartet – Live In Paris – Maison de la Radio – Studio 104 – February 9, 1973 – Radio France – Dexter Gordon this weekend. Some weeks ago I ran a concert featuring Wardell Gray, whose Tenor duels with Dexter Gordon in the early 1950s were legendary. This
Another installment of our occasional weekend series of landmark Plays because Theatre is a life-changing experience and good plays suspend time. Tonight it’s Three Sisters by Anton Chekov in a BBC Radio 3 production from March 3, 2016. The cast: Olga … Hattie Morahan Masha … Scarlett Alice Johnson Irina
Creepy, actually. You look at yourself in the mirror – average guy, nothing to write home about – blend into a crowd – B student – doesn’t make waves – homework every night – don’t smoke – don’t drink – gets to bed early. Otherwise, a Boy Scout. So what
Where would Saturday be without a heavy dose of Tame Impala to get the weekend moving? No place on the edge, that’s for sure. This weekend we’re diving back to 2015 to the Splendour In The Grass Festival at Byron Bay in Australia for their first gig back home after
– NBC Radio – Second Sunday: J.Edgar Hoover’s FBI – May, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Long before the days of Internet spying, domestic surveillance and government intrusion on privacy, we had J.Edgar Hoover. Hoover was the man behind the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and he made is his
On a day where crises were popping up seemingly everywhere, the focus on this February 7th in 1964 was the flare-up of bad relations with Cuba and threats by the Castro regime against our military base at Guantanamo. The flap began over the seizing of four Cuban fishing trawlers off
Lianne La Havas for Friday. The last time I ran one of her concerts was several years ago when things were just getting rolling. At the time time I predicted good reactions. I was right, but there was a hiatus – she’s been back since 2020 with a new album.
The Zen Circus – Fino A Speccarti Due o Tre Denti – 2006 You may not have noticed it, but we had a small crisis here at Past Daily the past few days and we were dangerously close to having all the posts from the past ten years wiped out.
– CBS World News Roundup – February 6, 1992 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another crack at some sort of affordable healthcare started making the rounds, this February 6th in 1992. President George (HW) Bush was proposing a plan for health coverage for the millions of Americans with no
