Lulu 1967 – The Boat That I Row
It’s 2 AM on a Tuesday, and the city is breathing out the cold, metallic smell of a winter rain.…
Brenda Lee 1957 – Rock The Bop
The air in the studio was heavy, thick with the smell of old coffee and a nervous kind of static…
Little Anthony & The Imperials 1964 – Going Out Of My Head
The needle drops. The room, for a moment, is perfectly still—a dim café perhaps, or a solitary listening space late…
The Hounds 1966 – Sealed With A Kiss
The smell of dust motes suspended in a sunbeam and the echo of a forgotten transistor radio—that’s the scent of…
The Lennon Sisters 1957 – Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now
I remember the first time I heard it—not in its own time, of course, but late one night, a scratchy…
The Everly Brothers 1966 – The Price Of Love
The needle drops, not with the familiar, honeyed sigh of a Nashville ballad, but with a crackle that sounds like…
Steam 1969 – Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
The late-night air hung thick and blue in the studio, a fog of ambition and exhaustion. It was 1969. Outside,…
Little Anthony & The Imperials 1964 – Hurt So Bad
The year is 1964, and the American imagination is still tethered to the curling Pacific wave, yet a quieter, faster…
Jan & Dean 1964 – Sidewalk Surfin
The year is 1964, and the American imagination is still tethered to the curling Pacific wave, yet a quieter, faster…
Dale Hawkins 1957 – Susie-Q
The air was always thicker in Shreveport. Not just humid—musically dense, heavy with the cross-currents of country, gospel, and the…