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Harry James and his Orchestra – July 20, 1945 – Armed Forces Radio Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Do what you can to support our website: Become a Patron! Harry James during one of his many appearances at camps and hospitals during World War 2. Recorded at The...
Gerry Mulligan – Big Band – Live At The North Sea Jazz Festival, The Hague – July 16, 1982 – VPRO Sorry to bug you, but . . .Become a Patron! Gerry Mulligan this weekend. With big band, recorded at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague on July...
Claude Hopkins – Dorothy Donegan – Stuff Smith Trio – Jubilee Program – October 16, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – We got bills – we got pressure – we got patrons: Become a Patron! Back over to some Big Band of the 1940s this week. This one from...
Artie Shaw and His Orchestra/Gramercy Five – Camp San Luis Obispo – September 26, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Patrons get to download this one: Become a Patron! Artie and his Orchestra, along with his Gramercy Five in an appearance at Camp San Luis Obispo from September 26,...
Jubilee – Armed Forces Radio – May 24, 1943 – Louis Armstrong, Theresa Harris, Red Callender, Sonny Woods – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Jumping into some wartime Big Band this weekend with a broadcast via Armed Forces Radio of the legendary Jubilee program from 1943. This one featuring the...
Christian Garros et son Orchestre – Jazz-Danse Nr. 1 – French Columbia Records – EP ESDF – 1218 – EMI/Columbia – France – Subscribers get the proverbial backstage pass: Become a Patron! Pulling records off the shelf tonight, running into sounds of French Big Band from the 1950s. Lest you...
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra – CBS Radio – Camel Caravan – November 18, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Benny Goodman for this Holiday weekend. 80 years ago this was the state of Popular Music in America. Big Band Swing was in its heyday and...
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra – NBC Radio – Concert In Miniature -August 12, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Stan Kenton: A name synonymous with the revolution in Modern Jazz by taking it from the dance hall to the concert hall and achieving mixed results in the process....
Jubilee – Armed Forces Radio Service – June 11, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Here is a prime example of just how diverse and all-inclusive Jazz was (and still is). Jubilee was one of the most popular programs aired to service personnel during and just after World War...
Benny Goodman – Camel Caravan program – February 14, 1939 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Benny Goodman and a dose of Swing this weekend. Listening to this broadcast, made some 80 years ago, you wonder what the status of Popular music was during...
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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