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…
Oldies Songs
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…
Brenton Wood 1966 – Gimme Little Sign
The late 1960s were less a decade than an explosion, a kaleidoscope of sonic debris scattering in every possible direction.…
The Move 1968 – Fire Brigade
The late 1960s were less a decade than an explosion, a kaleidoscope of sonic debris scattering in every possible direction.…
Cat Stevens 1971 – Morning Has Broken
The memory is as sharp as the chill air of a New England autumn morning. I was perhaps seven, slumped…
The Foundations 1969 – In The Bad, Bad Old Days
The sound hits like a sudden, unexpected swell of warmth on a cold afternoon. A rush of strings, not timid,…
The Turtles 1968 – Elenore
The year is 1968. The Summer of Love’s paisley haze is just beginning to dissipate, giving way to an era…