Louie Louie – Paul Revere & The Raiders
Forget the matching Revolutionary War uniforms for a moment. Forget the slick, technicolor pop-art aesthetic that made Paul Revere &…
Oldies Songs
The Tornados – All The Stars In The Sky
There are certain sounds that immediately transport you. For those of us who grew up with the shadows of the…
CW McCall (Convoy)
The sound hits you not with a guitar riff or a drum crack, but with a sudden, startling burst of…
Lenny and the Squigtones – Night after Night
I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard the full studio (or rather, “live”) recording of “Night…
Gayla Peevey – I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
The holiday season arrives each year with an enormous, predictable playlist. We settle into the familiar narratives: snow, romance, chimney…
Charlie Rich – Behind Closed Doors
The sound of 1973 was, in many ways, an exercise in excess: stadium rock anthems, sprawling prog epics, and funk…
Drift Away – Dobie Gray
The car radio, that ancient, ubiquitous altar of pop culture, is where the best songs live forever. It doesn’t matter…
Lee Dorsey – Ya Ya
The air in the studio, reportedly a humble New Orleans space, must have been thick with cigarette smoke and the…
Precious And Few – Climax 1972
There are some songs that simply exist outside the clamor of the chart wars, pieces of music that feel less…
Johnny Rivers – Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu (1973)
It is a sound that smells of stale beer and hot asphalt, a sound born under the sticky summer moon…