"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Martial Solal Big Band – featuring Jacques DiDonatto, Clarinet – Live from Maison de la Radio, Paris – 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Lest you think Jazz is seldom seen and heard and has all but vanished from the musical landscape – not so in Europe, or throughout...
May 8, 1982 – ABC World News This Morning – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 8, 1982. News of impending war and last minute attempts at reaching a peaceful settlement in the Falklands crisis. All eyes were on UN Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to come up...
April 26, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 26, 1994 – A historic day for South Africa. For the first time ever, South African Blacks were voting in the country’s general election. After decades of apartheid and brutal oppression, it was a new...
March 27, 1940 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 27, 1940 -As the war in Europe gained momentum, allegiances and reminders of friendship pacts were declared throughout the continent. Latest to pledge mutual assistance was Hungary. Prime Minister Teleki paid a visit to Rome...
December 31, 1955 – The Year: 1955 – CBS Radio Network – Year-end wrapup of News Events – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Starting today, and going up until New Years Eve, we’ll be running Year-end Wrapups from years gone by; what we’re calling The Thousand Yard Stare; what the...
Blossom Toes, Procol Harum, Simon Dupree & The Big Sound, The Peddlers, Jackie Trent and Tony Hatch – Top Of The Pops – May 10, 1968 – BBC Transcription Service. With the exception of Procol Harum, it is doubtful most people in the U.S. have heard of the rest of...
Car Seat Headrest – in concert at Route du Rock 2017 – August 18, 2017 – Radio France International – Closing up Summer Festival season with a performance at Route du Rock 2017 by Car Seat Headrest. Recorded on August 18th by the venerable Radio France International. Car Seat Headrest,...
Radiohead – in concert from Haarlem, The Netherlands – May 5, 1993 – VPRO-Radio – Radiohead for Throw Back Thursday. From a concert recorded in Haarlem in the Netherlands on May 5, 1993 by the Netherlands Radio network VPRO, Radiohead in the middle of promoting their debut album, Pablo Honey....
August 14, 1951 – Don Hollenbeck for Edward R. Murrow and The News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 14, 1951 – 66 years ago we were in the middle of the Red Scare, but we were also in the middle of something more dark and sinister than the...
July 29, 1965 – News item: Passage of Medicare Bill – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Medicare. 52 years ago this week, it became a reality for millions of Americans, By an overwhelming majority on July 28, the Medicare bill passed Congress and headed to President Johnson for signature....
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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