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December 18, 1968 – Newsfront – Eastern Educational Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 18, 1968 – news from Brazil this day – much of it not good. In Rio de Janiero, a spokesman for the Brazilian government said a plot organized by former Governor Lacerda and former...
Winter- In session for Audiotree – June 18, 2016 – Audiotree Another L.A. band tonight – well . . . .again, not entirely a born-and-bred in L.A. band, but rather a band that came together in another city, eventually came to L.A. and stayed. Winter, aside from being a solo...
December 13, 1968 – EET: Newsfront – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 13, 1968 – Busy news day – at home and abroad. Starting with Defense Secretary-designate Melvin Laird saying in a press conference earlier that he hoped the war in Vietnam would be over by the time they...
– Lucas Hamming – live at Song Of The Year 2015 – Dec. 11, 2015 – NPO3-3VOOR12 – Lucas Hamming tonight. Barely out of school and already receiving wide recognition and a lot of high praise from the Press. Tonight he’s performing at the 2015 Song Of The Year event...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Blecaute (Blackout) – Que Samba Bom – 1949 Something out-of-the-ordinary, but not so unusual if you spend any time over here. Tonight it’s a single by the legendary Brazilian singer/Samba practitioner Blackout, or Blecaute as it was spelled in Brazil. Blecaute...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – George Fisher Interviews Carmen Miranda – July, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection No question, Portuguese-Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda was a household name in American entertainment throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s. Anyone who is a fan of the Technicolor...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News on this day in 1958 had to do with the aftermath of the disastrous visit by vice-President Nixon to South America. In each of the stops on this State visit, the Nixon party was greeted with bottles, rocks and...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: (Apologies again for the player – issues still haven’t been fixed – but we’re working on it) One of the things that keeps music fresh is the state of willingness artists have to mix it up, musically. Introducing genres and styles and...
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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