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King Vidor – In Conversation With Arthur Knight – March 3, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Unless you’re a film student or devoted to the history of Cinema, the name King Vidor may not ring many bells with you. The history of Cinema, particularly the early days, is...
Happy Mondays – in concert from Kilburn National Ballroom, London – October 26, 1992 – BBC In Concert – BBC Radio 1 – Happy Mondays this weekend. The Spirit of Madchester with continued thoughts and good vibes to the people of Manchester ahead of the One Love Manchester concert...
Parálisis Permanente – Live at RTVE Studios – Broadcast June 7, 1983 (Tribute) – RTVE Spain – Heading over to Madrid to end the week for a set by the tragically short-lived Spanish Punk/Darkwave/Post-Punk band Parálisis Permanente, by way of the RTVE program La Edad de Oro, as broadcast on...
Bumps Blackwell talks about Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke and the early days of Rock n’ Roll in this rare interview, done around 1969. Robert “Bumps” Blackwell was a key figure in the initial birth and promotion of Rock n’ Roll, helping bring it out of the predominately African-American...
December already, and a reminder that the end of the year is rapidly approaching along with your chance to take a deduction on your taxes for a contribution to help keep Past Daily up and running is quickly coming to a close. And as is always the case with the...
Past Daily’s Spring Fundraiser is now a thing of the past. In the final hours there was a flurry of contributions, and even though we didn’t get anywhere near our goal, we managed to squeak by with enough to pay for repairs on a few of our machines that have...
Ten days left. And still under half our goal. This weekend we only heard from two of you, but quite a few thousand visited the site. I know everyone likes the idea of getting stuff for free, and everyone balks at the idea of having to pay for a subscription...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Jesse Winchester – In concert at Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton MA – October 12, 1982 Sunday night, when the news came across several Social Media sites that singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester had lost his battle with Cancer at age 69, it...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: First Tuesday: Domestic Spying – How Much Do They Know About You? – Dec. 1, 1970 It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to many that our preoccupation with Domestic spying has been with us for a very long time. In 1970...
