Cream 1966 – I Feel Free
The air in the studio must have been heavy, a volatile mix of ozone from glowing tubes, cigarette smoke, and…
Oldies Songs
Stevie Wonder 1966 – Uptight ( Everything’s Alright )
I remember precisely the first time I realized that Stevie Wonder’s early career was a story of survival, not just…
R. Dean Taylor 1973 – There’s A Ghost In My House
The needle drops—or, perhaps, the cassette begins to spool, the sound of static giving way to a frantic, irresistible current.…
Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man
The late-night radio dial, somewhere between the hiss of static and the promise of a distant signal, often holds the…
Peter Sarstedt 1969 – Where Do You Go To ( My Lovely )
The sound begins in a room thick with nostalgia, a deliberate mist of European melancholy applied directly to the magnetic…
Long John Baldry 1967 – Let The Heartaches Begin
It is an inescapable truth of music history that the most authentic paths often run uphill, while the winding road…
The Beatles 1963 – Please Mister Postman
The year is 1963. The setting is London’s EMI Studios, now globally revered as Abbey Road. Outside, the world is…
Barry McGuire 1965 – Eve Of Destruction
It begins with an acoustic $\text{guitar}$ strumming the apocalypse. Not a grand, orchestral prelude to destruction, but a deceptively simple,…
Jeannie C. Riley 1968 – Harper Valley P.T.A
It’s an image burned into the collective consciousness of American music: the widowed Mrs. Johnson, clad in her defiant miniskirt,…
The Hollies 1964 – Here I Go Again
There are certain records, specific sides of 45s tucked away in the forgotten corners of the British Invasion, that don’t…