"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Big Jay McNeely – live at Birdland, Seattle Washington – 1957 – Big J Records 1989 – In case you missed it, or it slipped your mind, or you were distracted by the birthday of another celebrated Jazz giant, Duke Ellington (born on April 29, 1899), yesterday was also the...
Blood, Sweat & Tears (featuring Al Kooper), live at The Psychedelic Supermarket, Boston – recorded on February 23, 1968. Jim Fielder Interviews the members of the band – Backstage – Feb. 23, 1968 For those of you who became familiar with Blood, Sweat & Tears as a sort of soft-pop/quasi-mainstream...
Terry Reid – In Session for Beat Club – Dec. 31, 1969 – RBB Berlin Terry Reid tonight. Probably more well known by fans as “the man who turned down Led Zeppelin” than for the actual artist himself, Terry Reid was a well respected and moderately successful artist in his...
The Eisenhower Years – CBS Radio News – January 8, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The Eisenhower Years – the years that started in January of 1953 and ended in January of 1961. Years which saw a Cold War, a Space Race, a Population explosion, a wave of independence...
Motorhead – Live at The Paris Theatre, London – May 16, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Motorhead tonight. In tribute to the passing of legend and Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister, who died in L.A. today at age 70 from a short bout with Cancer. He left us...
– Peter Gabriel – Live In Seattle – August 10, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When Peter Gabriel left Genesis, a band he co-founded in the mid-1960s and said farewell to at the close of the Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tour in 1975, it came as a...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Atomic Rooster – In Session for Alan Freeman’s Saturday Rock Show – 1970 – BBC Radio 1 Atomic Rooster were a very interesting band, although they didn’t get the immediate response from the audience and critics they...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC Radio 1 – Vivian Stanshall’s Radio Flashes – August 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. To explain Vivian Stanshall is next to impossible – as founding member of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, he was front...
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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