Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – You Really Got A Hold On Me
The radio was always a confessional booth in the early sixties, a dark, gleaming chrome box ready to hold a…
Oldies Songs
Jim Reeves – Adios Amigo
There are songs that capture a moment, and then there are songs that capture a feeling so universal, so deep…
Gary Lewis & The Playboys She’s Just My Style (1965)
The memory is not of a high-fidelity playback in some expensive listening room, but of a tinny, slightly overdriven sound.…
HEY LITTLE COBRA – The Rip Chords
The song itself was more a studio construction than a traditional band effort, which only adds to its mystique. Released…
The Marmalade – Reflections Of My Life
The air in my small studio office tonight is thick with the scent of old vinyl and ozone from the…
Neil Diamond – Cracklin Rosie (1970)
The air in the cabin radio station was thick with cigarette smoke and the faint aroma of burnt coffee. It…
Tony Orlando & Dawn – “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” (1973)
The highway rolled out before me, a ribbon of asphalt under a late-autumn sky. The car, an old sedan, smelled…
Ricky Nelson – Cindy
It’s late, the city has gone quiet, and the only light comes from the glow of an old tube amplifier.…
Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson – My Rifle, My Pony and Me & Cindy Cindy
The camera is close. The lighting is low. There is a palpable tension that has nothing to do with gunfire…
Johnny Rivers “Memphis Tennessee”
The air in Los Angeles in early 1964 was thick with the strange, exhilarating panic of a cultural takeover. The…