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Become a Patron! July 17, 1951. The big news concerned the devastating floods sweeping over Kansas City, submerging some 2 million acres and causing an untold amount of damage and loss of life. On the day of this newscast, President Truman had finished a tour of the disaster area. He...
Become a Patron! After a promising start, sidelined for almost two weeks by a website server crash, the scramble to catch up has been met with mixed results. A lot of you have been supportive of Past Daily during this fundraiser; either by new contributions or renewing older ones. That...
Kim Weston – Live at Composers Concept Concert with The Paradise Theatre Orchestra – Detroit – March 26, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Kim Weston this weekend. A lot of music aficionados will recognize the name as the iconic Soul singer and Motown alumnus of the 1960s. You’d be...
Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, LaVern Baker, Count Basie and his Orchestra -CBS Radio: Camel Rock n’ Roll Dance Party – April 16, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 14, 1956 – Sixty-three years ago today, Alan Freed along with LaVerne Baker, Count Basie and Frankie Lymon and...
Jubilee – Lionel Hampton and Dinah Washington – October 16, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If it wasn’t for the Armed Forces Radio Service, started during World War 2, a vast treasure trove of our cultural heritage would be lost forever. Because the service was aimed at troops...
Congressional Black Caucus – Comment With Edwin Newman – June 13, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Congressional Black Caucus – a little background via the House of Representatives Webpage: With the opening of the 92nd Congress (1971–1973), the number of black Representatives rose to 13—the greatest number of...
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King – Sermon at Riverside Church – April 4, 1967 – Southern Christian Leadership Conference – In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday today – a day perhaps overshadowed by our current state of affairs and the level of confusion we find ourselves in, I...
January 8,1968 – Newsfront – Eastern Educational Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 8, 1968 – Anticipation of a year of protests. The year was starting off with warnings from Civil Rights leaders that Summer of 1968 was going to be potentially just as hot as summers past,...
Benny Carter, Nat “King” Cole, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, etc. – Jubilee – April 16, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Benny Carter and his orchestra this week – along with a host of guests on this episode of Jubilee from April 16, 1945. Just one of the many music...
James Baldwin – Book Beat program – 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – James Baldwin has been an enormous influence for writers the past several decades – for Black writers his influence has been profound. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of...
