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Depeche Mode – Live At Dodger Stadium – Aug.4, 1990 + Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, S.F. – july 21, 1990 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Depeche Mode this weekend, from their World Violation Tour, supporting their seventh album release, Violator which came out on March 19,1990. In a contemporary review...
October 8, 1967 – ABC News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 8, 1967 – This day was more or less typical of most days in 1967; the Vietnam War was dragging on and taking its toll, not only of troops but in the court of...
May 25, 2001 – BBC World Service News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 25, 2001 – The collapse of a wedding hall during festivities in Jerusalem brought the instant assumption of a terrorist bombing. But after a few minutes, it was determined the Versailles Wedding Hall, hosting a...
November 22, 1962 – NBC Radio News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 22, 1962 – A busy Thanksgiving Day in 1962. On Capitol Hill, an uproar over the new Tax Reform package and fears it may be shot down. Congressional leaders were putting the brakes...
Pale Waves – In Session for Huw Stephens – Maida Vale Studios – Nov. 13, 2017 – BBC Radio 1 – Pale Waves tonight. For all intents and purposes, a new band – even though they’ve been together for two years. But this year they did their first tour of...
March 31, 1942 – NBC News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 31, 1942 – news for this day was significant on two fronts. The first, a proposal offered up by Britain to India was turned down. Dispatches reaching London from New Delhi predicted the Indian...
ABC Radio: Storm Over The Himalayas – India-Pakistan at War – Sept. 19, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the latest series of news reports regarding fighting going on between India and Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir region, I was reminded of an earlier war – a war...
Cornershop – John Peel Session – BBC – Feb. 13, 1993 – BBC Radio 1 – Cornershop – one of the more unusual and eclectic mashups of musical styles and genres to come along in the early 1990s. Formed in 1991 by the brothers Tjinder and Avnar Singh, along with...
March 16, 1942 – News of the World – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 16, 1942 – A day where focus of attention was on the Far East and the South Pacific. Word that Sir Stafford Cripps was sent on a mission to bolster support for India,...
February 15, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow and the News – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 15, 1951 – Reports from Korea were pessimistic, even with spin attached. As of this day the list of casualties grew by 600, passing the 48,000 mark for both dead...
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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