"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The Beatles – Christmas 1966 – The Beatles Fan Club – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Beatles – in what became a yearly ritual from the Fab Four as a Christmas Card to their fan club, the 1966 installment of yuletide festivities was progressively more outrageous with each year....
KHJ – The Real Don Steele Show + Bobby Mitchell – November 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Third week of November, 1965 – the year was almost over and things were changing faster than ever. The Beatles were household names and The Rolling Stones were freely copied by...
KFWB – B. Mitchel Reed – KRLA – Reb Foster – October 20 (approx.) 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Summer of Love is over, but radio is sill going strong. KFWB and KRLA are dispensing the music that moves your world – Reb Foster is playing the...
– John Lennon death reports – Various stations – December 8, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – John Lennon – a life ended at the end of a gun outside The Dakota Apartments in New York City, 35 years ago tonight. In the 35 years since his death, so...
– KRLA-KFWB-KHJ-KBLA- recorded between February and May, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Long before the days of downloading, streaming and ripping, if you wanted to listen to a new song over and over, the only way you could do that was hook up your tape-recorder (or your parents...
– Pop Goes The Beatles – August 6, 1963 – BBC Transcription Service – I have rarely run Beatles material on Past Daily. No good reason – other than, the subject is covered so thoroughly by so many other sites, that I don’t think I can add anything that hasn’t...
– KRLA-KHJ-KFWB, Los Angeles – October 16, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you’ve ever wanted to hear a slice of an average day of Top-40 radio in Los Angeles during those halcyon days of Rock, all things British Invasion and Motown, this may be your chance. It...
– BBC World Service – World Briefing – October 9, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the overthrow and resignation of Slobodan Milosevic a few days earlier and the installation of Vojislav Kostunica as the legitimate President, members of the EU were meeting on this day to...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Newsfront Interview with Lennon and McCartney – May 11, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Unlike the Billie Holiday interview last week, this interview with John Lennon and Paul McCartney has been discovered recently and has been...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Martha Stuart: Are You Listening? – Boys With Long Hair – July 1970 Anyone reading this who was born after 1970 will have no idea what the deal was. It was all about hair in the 1960s...
