Walk Right In – The Rooftop Singers
It’s 1962. The folk revival is cresting, still largely a world of earnest college students, smoky Greenwich Village coffee houses,…
Oldies Songs
Love Is Alive – Gary Wright
The year is 1976. The air is thick with disco shimmer and the fading roar of stadium rock. Yet, in…
Patti Page – Red Sails In The Sunset
The air in the listening room is thick with a manufactured nostalgia, a carefully engineered sound that only the high-fidelity…
Paul Revere & The Raiders – Indian Reservation
The radio dial spins through a haze of static and late-night whispers. It’s a moment of profound atmospheric solitude. Then,…
The Platters – My Dream
The memory is not of a dance floor or a teenage sock hop, but a stretch of lonely, dark highway,…
“Just A Little” – The Beau Brummels
The needle drops—or perhaps, in the modern age, the stream initializes—and a moment of perfect, minor-key melancholy floods the air.…
Tom Jones with Burt Bacharach – Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
A classic is only classic because of its adaptability—its core melody and lyric capable of shedding one skin for another,…
Carpenters – Goodbye To Love
The sound of rain on a pane of glass. That is the texture that comes to mind when the opening…
Make Your Own Kind of Music ( Mama Cass Elliott )
The world of 1969 was fractured, spinning on an axis of change that was both exhilarating and terrifying. In the…
Queen – We Will Rock You (1977)
The memory is not of a stadium, not at first. It is of a garage in the humid summer of…