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For Audio Files: If you’re a record collector, particularly of early lps, the name Pierre-Michel LeConte is most likely familiar to you. During that period of transition in the late 1940s to the early 1950s, from 78s to what was the revolutionary Long Playing album, LeConte was the mainstay with...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Special Report – Situation in Europe/Address by Premier Paul Reynaud – May 27, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. 75 years ago today, ominous news was coming from Europe. An unusual address at 8:30 in the...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – News Of The World – May 22, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this May 22nd in 1941, which was the 627th day of War, was about the continuing expansion of the War in...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Laetitia Sheriff – In session at Oui-FM, Paris – April 1, 2015 – Oui-FM Laetitia Sheriff is a French Singer-Songwriter with three albums to her credit. Sheriff has been gigging around her native France of late, promoting...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Pasquier Trio play music of Piernè – 1953 – ORTF Broadcast – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The celebrated Pasquier Trio this week, and a work which was dedicated to them by the late-19th/early 20th French composer/conductor...
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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