"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
KBLA – Humble Harve – December 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Christmas Vacation in Los Angeles. Not like anyplace else – no snow, barely any rain, a chance it was going to be as hot as Summer and not conducive to listening to Bing Crosby....
The Earlies – In session at The BBC – Dec. 21, 2009 – BBC 6 Music – The Earlies, getting us reasonably into the holiday season. Yes, believe it or not, there are 4 shopping days until Christmas, and despite an avalanche of Christmas Music coming out of every speaker,...
A Christmas Sing With Bing – December 24, 1956 – CBS Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Bing Crosby and Christmas – for decades it was an institution. You couldn’t have one without the other. And every year, from 1955 up to the 1970s (and beyond, via repeats)...
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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