Cliff Richard & The Shadows 1963 – Travellin Light
The air in 1959 was thick with change. Post-war grey was slowly, tentatively, giving way to the first shoots of…
Oldies Songs
The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967 – Purple Haze
The air in Olympic Studios must have felt electric. You can almost imagine it: the low hum of vacuum tubes…
The Bee Gees 1967 – New York Mining Disaster 1941
The story goes that the lights went out. Not on a stage, but deep inside Polydor’s London studios in early…
Jive Bunny & The MasterMixers – Swing The Mood
The air in 1989 was thick with the glossy, synthesized sheen of Stock Aitken Waterman, the burgeoning pulse of acid…
Carl Perkins 1956 – Blue Suede Shoes
You can almost feel the magnetic tape pulling past the recording heads, the humid Memphis air thick with the smell…
The Temptations 1965 – My Baby
The air in Studio A hangs thick with magnetic tape and ambition. It’s 1965. A few months ago, a song…
The Dovells 1963 – You Can’t Sit Down
It’s 1963. The air is thick with anticipation, a strange calm before the storm we now call the British Invasion.…
Roger Whittaker 1970 – I Don’t Believe In If Anymore
The signal arrives like a ghost. It’s a sound from another time, swimming through the static of a late-night drive,…
Mickey & Sylvia 1956 – Love Is Strange
The air in 1956 was thick with noise. It was the sound of a generation gap cracking wide open, of…
Edith Piaf 1959 – Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
The air in the grand apartment on Boulevard Lannes is thick with tension. It is 1960, and Edith Piaf, the…