RICKY NELSON – Bye Bye Love
The year is 1960. The air is thick with the promise of a new decade, but the soundtrack is still…
Oldies Songs
Brook Benton – Rainy Night In Georgia
There is a moment in the dead of a late, wet night—the kind where the city outside seems to dissolve…
Ferrante & Teicher – Exodus
The 1960s were not solely the decade of rock-and-roll revolution; they were also a golden age for the instrumental orchestra,…
The Hollies – Sorry Suzane
It is late 1969, and the air is thick with change. The monolithic promise of psychedelic freedom is giving way…
Bee Gees – Woman in Love
The year is 1980. The embers of the disco inferno, fueled so brightly by the Bee Gees themselves, were cooling…
Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb – Guilty
The year is 1980. The decade of disco was fading, replaced by the slick, synthesized sheen of new wave and…
Midnight Special – Johnny Rivers
The scene is palpable, even half a century later. It’s 1964, and the whisper of the Sunset Strip is a…
Summertime – Zombies
I often think about those pivotal moments in an artist’s career—the single song, sometimes a cover, that shifts the whole…
Nine Times Blue – Monkees & Mike Nesmith
There are songs that crash through the speakers, demanding attention with a brassy fanfare or a searing electric guitar riff.…
The Kendalls – Heaven’s Just a Sin Away (1977)
The air in the kitchen was thick, not with cigarette smoke, but with the humidity of a late-summer evening in…