
Category: Interviews


A Word Or Two From Jack Tworkov – 1966 – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry
Click on the link at the Past Daily site and listen to this 1966 interview with Jack Tworkov, one of the founding figures in the American Abstract movement in painting.

Sava Kosanovic, Yugoslavia And The Cold War – 1949 – Past Daily Reference Room
Meet The Press – Sava Kosanovic – November 12, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Post-War Yugoslavia; smack in the middle of the East European Iron Curtain and ruled over by Josip Broz Tito, leader of the partisan resistance movement during World War 2, when Yugoslavia was overrun by
Past Daily’s Fall Fundraiser – Short, Sweet, Give What You Can – Day 1
Click on this link here to make your Contributions to Past Daily: Past Daily Fall Fundraiser And if you’d like to hear a little bit about Past Daily and The Gordon Skene Sound Collection via The Dots podcast in my own words: It’s that time of the year – The

L.A. In 1962 – Megalopolis At Night – KNX Visits The Potted Pigeon And Asks About The food – Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles
KNX Radio – Megalopolis At Night: A Visit To The Potted Pigeon – June 8, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – L.A. nightlife in the early 60s. A lot going on and no shortage of restaurants and night clubs. Along Hollywood Boulevard it was a place to people watch

Jerry Lewis Has A Word Or Two About Jerry Lewis – 2005 – (1926-2017) – Past Daily Pop Chronicles: Tribute Edition
Jerry Lewis – Interview with Terry Gross – NPR: Fresh Air – October 25, 2005 – National Public Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Jerry Lewis is gone. Most people have come to know him as the “guy on the Muscular Dystrophy Telethons”. Still others remember the long career

August 8, 1965 – Gen. Maxwell Taylor Meets The Press – Past Daily Reference Room
General Maxwell Taylor – NBC-Monitor: Meet The Press – August 8, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – General Maxwell Taylor, returning to the U.S. after spending a year as our Ambassador to South Vietnam went before the panel on Meet The Press and told, in no uncertain terms, that

Rahsaan Roland Kirk In Session – In Interview – 1970 – Past Daily Downbeat
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – In session and in conversation – Positively Black program – Sept. 6, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In the late 1960’s/early 1970s, TV witnessed an explosion of Black Produced Public Affairs programs both nationally and locally throughout the U.S. – in an effort to

An Interview With Carrie Fisher – (RIP Carrie Fisher: 1956-2016)
Carrie Fisher – interviewed by Terry Gross for Fresh Air – November 28, 2016 – NPR In a year already overflowing with loss, to hear the latest news that Carrie Fisher passed away earlier today, never recovering from the massive heart attack last week, is just one more mind-numbing tragedy

Bob Dylan – In Session 1962 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Bob Dylan – On The Billy Faier Program – October 1962 – WBAI, New York – Early Bob Dylan tonight. Since we’re kicking off our Fundraiser today, and since what we’re all about is history and defining moments in our society and culture, who better to define a generation than