"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
May 1952 – CBS Radio: The People Act: Migrant workers and families in San Joaquin Valley – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Before the age of tape recording, the only method of producing a documentary was either by a cumbersome disc-cutting machine, an undependable wire recorder or making it all up...
Simon & Garfunkel – live at The Hollywood Bowl – Part 1 August 23, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Simon &Garfunkel – Live At The Hollywood Bowl – Part 2 – August 23, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It only seems fitting, after the milestone series...
The Strokes – Live at ULU, London Nov. 29, 2005 – BBC 6 Music In Concert – BBC 6 Music The Strokes for Hump Day. Recorded live at ULU in London in 2005, coinciding with the release of First Impressions Of Earth, which came out in January of 2006....
Felt – in session for Janice Long – September 30, 1984 – BBC Radio 1 – Felt to end up the working week – Cited as a major influence for such bands as The Charlatans, Belle & Sebastian and Manic Street Preachers, they formed in 1979 in Water Orton,...
AC/DC – In Concert from Golders Green, London – October 13, 1977 – BBC Radio 1 – In Concert – With the sad news this morning of the death of AC/DC Guitarist and co-Founder Malcolm Young it seems like another chapter in Rock History has closed. The irony is that,...
Mogul Thrash In Concert – Recorded at The Paris Theatre- April 25, 1971 – John Peel/In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – Mogul Thrash for a Thursday night. Fans of early 70s Prog Rock will no doubt know who this is, you know who they are and who some...
schis April 4, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 4, 1978 – A day where the situation in Lebanon and the Middle East took a minor backseat to the situation at the Academy Awards and the Oscars the night before. Beginning with news of the...
Bumps Blackwell talks about Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke and the early days of Rock n’ Roll in this rare interview, done around 1969. Robert “Bumps” Blackwell was a key figure in the initial birth and promotion of Rock n’ Roll, helping bring it out of the predominately African-American...
Barbara – in concert at Radio France – Sept. 15, 1965 – ORTF, Paris – Any fan of French singers of the 1960s will know who Barbara is – you probably have several of her albums in your collection. Or you’ve just discovered her by way of the many reissues...
Siouxsie and The Banshees – Live At Warwick University 1981 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Ending up a week of (mostly) Punk with a 1981 concert by Siouxsie and The Banshees, live at Warwick University and recorded for posterity by BBC Radio 1. Initially a Punk band, who...
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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