"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – January 22, 1996 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A day of digging out if you were on the East Coast, this January 22nd in 1996. Hot on the heels of the Blizzard of ’96 came the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Meet The Press – Guest: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King – April 17, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In honor of Dr. King’s Birthday today, I unearthed this 1960 appearance on Meet The Press, where the discussion...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Frank Zappa – In Concert at Buffalo New York – November 15, 1974 Today, it just so happens, would have been Frank Zappa’s seventy-third birthday. Born on December 21st in 1940, Frank Zappa became one of the true revolutionaries in...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio Hourly News + World News This Week – October 23, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Thirty years ago today we were hearing the shocking news of a truck bomb exploded outside a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. And...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/22152610/news-for-june-19-1955.mp3 While the United Nations were preparing to celebrate 10 years as a peacemaking body on the 20th of June, a military coup was going on in Argentina, with a plan to oust Juan Pèron. this day in June 1955. At the time...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: As much as I like to run concerts from the past on Downbeat, I am always reminded that Jazz (or Modern American Music) is as vital today as ever. Certainly with respect to Gary Burton, whose pioneering virtuosity has been...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for February 22, 1969 News on this Washington’s Birthday in 1969 had much to do with the anticipated European visit of newly inaugurated President Nixon. It also had something to do with a just-published biography of George Washington by author-historian Mary...
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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