The Ivy League – Funny How Love Can Be
There is a moment in the history of British pop—a flashpoint in the mid-sixties—when the raw, driving energy of the…
Oldies Songs
The Scaffold 1968 – Lily The Pink
I remember the first time I heard it. It wasn’t on a crackling transistor radio in 1968, nor was it…
Benny Hill 1970 – Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)
The year is 1971. The airwaves are thick with the scent of patchouli and the shimmer of lurex. Glam Rock…
John Fred & His Playboy Band 1967 – Judy In Disguise
The year is 1967. London is aflame with paisley and incense, San Francisco is vibrating with counterculture, and The Beatles…
The Four Seasons 1965 – Let’s Hang On
The year 1965 should have been a time of reckoning, a slow, painful slide toward irrelevance for The Four Seasons.…
Desmond Dekker & The Aces 1968 – Israelites
It’s late, maybe 3 a.m., the kind of silence-after-the-storm quiet that settles over a sleeping city. The air in my…
Clodagh Rodgers 1969 – Come Back And Shake Me
The late 1960s were a kaleidoscope of sound—a messy, thrilling collision of flower power psychedelia, soulful grit, and the enduring,…
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown 1969 – Fire
The air of 1968 was already thick with change, scented with patchouli, revolution, and the creeping static of a generation…
The Beatles 1965 – In My Life
The moment the needle drops—or the algorithm clicks—on “In My Life,” the world outside the speakers stills. This is not…
Bob Lind 1965 – Elusive Butterfly
It is 1965, the air thick with the buzzing anticipation of an industry pivoting. On one side, the earnest, acoustic…