Amalia Rodrigues – 4 Songs – 1962 – Past Daily Nights At The Round Table
Click on the link at the Past Daily site and have a listen to four songs by the fado legend Amalia Rodrigues.
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Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History, Music
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Category 1950’s
January 17, 1951 – A Rejection Of Peace Proposals – An Indo-China State Of Mind
January 17, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow and The News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Janury 17, 1951 – Amid Chinese rejections of a UN Peace proposal, an eerie calm falling over Korea this day. Anticipation of another major…
Arthur Garami And Charles Reiner Play Music Of Henri Barraud – 1955 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Henri Barraud – Sonata For Violin and Piano – Arthur Garami, Violin – Charles Reiner, Piano – CBC Canada Radio Session – 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Completing the Radio session a few weeks ago that also featured…
Music Of Udo Kasemets – Arthur Garami, Violin – Charles Reiner, Piano – 1955 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Udo Kasemets – Sonata For Violin and Piano – 1954 – CBC Recital – CBC Transcription Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Udo Kasemts – Born in Estonia, migrated to Canada in 1951 – became a Canadian citizen in…
Exit: Jakarta – Expelling Dutch Nationals – 1957 – Past Daily Reference Room
news regarding last Dutch nationals leaving Indonesia and the story behind the expulsion – Click on the link at the Paste Daily site and listen to the original documentary.
It’s 1955 – You Live In Los Angeles – It’s The End Of The Year – You’re Sitting At The Radio – It’s Not Freezing – Past Daily’s Weekend Pop Chronicles
KHJ-KABC-KXLA – Dec. 30-31, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you were a kid, growing up in Los Angeles in the 1950s, chances are you weren’t born here. In the 1950s it was “the great trek west” a…
The Year Was 1955 – Past Daily’s Thousand Yard Stare At The Year
December 31, 1955 – The Year: 1955 – CBS Radio Network – Year-end wrapup of News Events – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Starting today, and going up until New Years Eve, we’ll be running Year-end Wrapups from years gone…
John Foster Dulles And The Cold War Press Conference – 1956 – Past Daily Reference Room
John Foster Dulles – Press Conference – December 18, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, unmistakeable symbol of The Cold War and the Arms race. In this press conference, his first since returning…
Albert Pratz And Leo Barkin Play Music Of Healey Willan – 1956 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Healey Willan – Sonata in E Minor for Violin and Piano – Albert Pratz, vln – Leo Barkin, pno – CBC Studio recording, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Up to Canada again, this time for a performance of…
Arnold Toynbee And Reinhold Niebuhr: “What Beliefs Sustain The Free World?”
CBS Radio – The Great Challenge – What Beliefs Sustain the Free World? – May 28, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the 1950s were drawing to a close, issues of who we were as people were starting…