The Mamas and The Papas – Dancing Bear (1966)
The memory is not of a stadium or a chart-topping crescendo. It is an internal scene: the low, warm glow…
Oldies Songs
The Mamas & The Papas – Got a Feelin’
The scent of dust motes dancing in a single shaft of late afternoon sun, the heavy, muffled thud of a…
Stand by Me (Otis Redding)
The first time I heard Otis Redding’s version of “Stand by Me,” it wasn’t a discovery—it was a recognition. Not…
Neil Diamond – Morningside
The air in the studio, even fifty years later, feels heavy. It is the imagined silence between the final, sighing…
Otis Redding – My Girl/Respect
The world felt different in 1965. The cultural lines were being redrawn, and in the sound coming out of the…
Otis Redding – Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Sad Song
The needle drops. There is that immediate, signature grit, the low, warm exhale of the Stax recording room in Memphis.…
The Coasters – Young Blood
The year is 1957. The air is thick with the sweet, yearning sound of street-corner harmonies, but something is shifting…
Ricky Nelson – Yesterday’s Love
The air in the café was thick with the scent of old paper and fresh rain. It was late, the…
Drifters – Down On The Beach Tonight
The air in the café hung heavy, smelling of rain-damp wool and strong, over-brewed coffee. It was late—that particular hour…
The Drifters – You’re More than a Number in My Little Red Book
The light is low. A scratchy AM radio signal drifts in from the kitchen, muffled by the sounds of a…