Category Past Daily

Eisenhower

Eisenhower – Republican Convention – 1952 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room

Become a Patron! As Convention season gets closer (and one can only guess what 2024 will be like), here is a sampler from another Republican Convention – seventy-two years ago – July 11,1952. General Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers the acceptance…

Europe

Postwar Europe: A Delicate Balance – March 14, 1948

News on this March 14th in 1948 came by way of commentary on the Marshall Plan for reconstruction of Europe. Branded by some as an unwarranted blank check to the former European allies with no obligation to pay back, while…

Primal Scream

Primal Scream – 6 Music Festival, Bristol 2016 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth

Become a Patron! – Primal Scream – live at BBC 6 Music Festival, Bristol 2016 – February 12, 2016 – BBC 6 Music – Primal Scream headlined the first day of BBC 6 Music’s Music Festival in Bristol in 2016.…

Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse – Hove Festival, 2007 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth

We exist because of subscribers like you: Become a Patron! Amy Winhouse in concert this morning. Recorded live at The Hove Festival in Norway from 2007. Amy Winehouse had an astonishingly short career, having arrived and peaked within a period…

A Word Or Two From Swami Satchidananda – 1967 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

NET: Newsfront – Interview with Swami Satchidananda – September 6, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In that wildly upheaval year of 1967 among so many revolutionary changes, came an onslaught of Gurus from India. Not that Eastern Philosophy…

National Farm Day – 1941 – FDR, Henry Wallace, Claude Wickard – March 8, 1941

Check us out for 7 days free: Become a Patron! – Pres. Roosevelt, vice-President Wallace, Sec. of Agriculture Claude Wickard – Farm Day 1941 – March 8, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection March 8, 1941 marked the 2nd annual…

Erma Franklin

Erma Franklin With Mike Bloomfield’s Electric Flag – 1968 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth

Coffee works wonders: – Erma Franklin with Mike Bloomfield’s Electric Flag – Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco – April 21, 1968 – Something special and historic this week. A concert from the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco, recorded on (or around)…

Cold War: “This Is Moscow Calling . . .” – March 7, 1947

– Radio Moscow – News from Moscow to America – March 7, 1947 – One of the constants during the Cold War period was the War of Words waged between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. This broadcast, from Radio…