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James Brown And His Famous Flames – Live in Lausanne Switzerland – 1973 – Swiss Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While the dust settles and Past Daily gets back to normal, I thought I would try and get things back up to speed with a classic concert by...
Van Morrison – live at The Lion’s Share – San Anselmo, Calif. Feb. 25, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Van Morrison this weekend, from a concert appearance at The Lion’s Share at San Anselmo, California – recorded by KPFA, Berkeley on February 15, 1973. I don’t think...
The Fall – in concert at Tut’s, Chicago – July 16, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the sad news earlier this week regarding the death of leader/front man/writer/iconoclast Mark E. Smith of The Fall, tributes have been pouring in from all over the world. Clearly, Mark E....
KHJ – The Real Don Steele – circa Feb. 22, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you were growing up in L.A. in the 1960s, one of the great rituals of listening to Top-40 radio was being the first kid on your block to hear the latest single...
– Top Of The Pops – December 1, 1967 – BBC Transcription Service – Another Top Of The Pops to end the weekend. This one features Amen Corner, The Alan Price Set, The Who, The Tremeloes, Traffic and The Settlers – hosted by Brian Matthew and all live performances...
Portishead – live at Route du Rock, St. Malo France – August 15, 1998 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Portishead tonight. Continuing with pivotal and influential bands the past few decades this week. Portishead have been considered pioneers in Trip-Hop, as well as having a firm base in Experimental...
Gregg Allman Band – live at The Stone, San Francisco – September 22, 1984 – Band Soundboard – If anyone thought we’d get a respite from the flood of untimely deaths which visited us in 2016, I am afraid that was only a fleeting hope and fervent wish. Now we...
Noreen Corcoran – Why Can’t Boy And Girl Stay In Love – 1963 – Vee-Jay Records (master tape) – Noreen Corcoran – a name that would ring no bells with you, unless you were a die-hard fan of 1950s Television. Corcoran was a regular on the hit TV show Bachelor...
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,...
John Cale – In Session for Top Gear – BBC Radio 1 – 1975 – BBC John Cale in session tonight. One of the founding members of The Velvet Underground, with a stellar solo career after, Cale has been one of the more influential artists, spanning several decades. As a...
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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