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If we’re helping keep your mind off things, maybe chipping in a buck of five would be a good idea, no?: Become a Patron! Characterized as a tinderbox by the State Department, Turkey, Italy, Greece and the Balkan region were hot in the grips of rioting on this March 19th...
May 24, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 24, 1990 – News of the “Bigger Picture” kind. Today, President Bush announced renewal of China‘s Most Favored Nations trade benefits for an eleventh year, despite continued reprisals and executions of Tiananmen Square protestors from...
The Stranglers In Session for John Peel – September 13, 1977 – BBC Radio 1 – The Stranglers in session to kick off he week. Their second session for John Peel, recorded on September 13, 1977. FYI: I ran the first session a couple years ago, so you might want...
Mario Cobo – live at Conciertos de Radio 3, Madrid – April 18, 2018 – RNE Radio 3 – Continuing Rock Without Borders week with a slice of Rockabilly from Madrid. Recorded at RNE Radio 3 studios in Madrid for Conciertos de Radio 3 – April 18, 2018. Mario...
March 28, 1941 – NBC Red Network – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 28, 1941 – A day for celebrating in Britain and a day of coups and overthrows in the Balkans. From Eritrea in Eastern Africa came word that the British had captured...
National Pastime – In Concert from BBC’s Paris Theatre – December 5, 1984 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – National Pastime to kick off the week. Admittedly, I wasn’t familiar with this band, but they were very much in a familiar genre of the mid-1980s; a heavy emphasis on...
Fabienne DelSol – Songs from 2006-2010 – Damaged Goods Records – During that comparatively brief period when MySpace was a wonderful portal to Creative people from all over the world meeting up in one place and showing off their stuff, there were more bands per square foot than any other...
G Deaf School – in session for John Peel – August 9, 1976 – BBC Radio 1 – Deaf School. Despite a lot of promotion and great press, a band which, on the face of it didn’t achieve a margin of success. However, the solo careers that got started with...
Johan Wagenaar – The Doge of Venice, Suite – Utrecht Municipal Orchestra – Paul Hupperts, Cond. – 1951 – Radio Nederland – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Johan Wagenaar this week. From the Radio Nederland transcription service, a broadcast performance featuring the Utrecht municipal Orchestra, conducted...
Meet The Press – Sava Kosanovic – November 12, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Post-War Yugoslavia; smack in the middle of the East European Iron Curtain and ruled over by Josip Broz Tito, leader of the partisan resistance movement during World War 2, when Yugoslavia was overrun by...
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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