"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
May 24, 1962 – ABC Radio – Special Report – Aurora 7 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 24, 1962 – And on this day in 1962, Aurora 7 was launched into space. Commanded by Scott Carpenter, it was four American launch into space and Carpenter was the...
The Yardbirds – Live At Radiohusset, Sveriges Radio – Stockholm , Sweden – April 4, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Yardbirds, this weekend. From a concert given at Swedish Radio in Stockholm on April 4, 1967. Always one of the favorite bands, and certainly one of the...
Queens Of The Stone Age – Reading 2000 – BBC 6 Music – Queens Of The Stone Age, in concert at The Reading Festival in 2000 (are you joking? Seventeen YEARS AGO??). The Palm Desert California band were one of the highlights of a festival that included headliners Oasis and...
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...
The Philadelphia Orchestra -Wolfgang Sawallisch, guest Cond. Emil Gilels, Piano – December 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another classic concert this week. This time, it’s The Philadelphia Orchestra, guest conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch and featuring the legendary Emil Gilels in a performance of the “Emperor” concerto (#5) by...
Don Henley Press Conference – Winning a 1993 International Earth Award – June 10, 1993 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While we’re observing Earth Day, looking at Earth Days gone past, and considering the fragile nature of Earth Day present, a few words from former Eagles Founder and environmentalist...
February 28, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 28, 1942 – While the news was coming in over the threatened Japanese invasion Java in the Pacific, a bulletin had flashed just towards the end of this newscast. Giving little in the way of...
April 22, 1990 – ABC Radio News – Earth Day Special – Hugh Downs, narrator – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 22, 1990 – twenty years to the day since the first Earth Day celebration in 1970. 20 years since the warnings, the Carbon Dioxide emissions, the global warming...
13 days and not quite 10% of our goal. Should I be worried? No – I know there’s a lot of you out there who are waiting for the last few days to pitch in – everybody likes the idea of down-to-the-wire, except the one on the receiving end. Here,...
Ahmad Jamal Trio – live at l’Olympia – 2000 – RFI-FIP – Ahmad Jamal this week, recorded shortly after celebrating his 70th birthday in 2000 playing to a sell-out crowd a concert at the famed l’Olympia in Paris. One of the most successful and well-known small group leaders in Jazz,...
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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