The Statler Brothers – Bed Of Roses
The old console stereo in the corner was a magnificent piece of mid-century furniture. It was the hub of our…
Oldies Songs
Shocking Blue – Venus
The sound hits like a sudden, bright flash in the rearview mirror. It’s that guitar riff—three notes, a quick silence,…
The McGuire Sisters – “May You Always” (1959)
The year is 1959. Rock and Roll had already crashed the gates, but in the polished, chandelier-lit ballrooms of popular…
JOHNNY RIVERS – Secret Agent Man
The air in the room is thick with smoke, cheap cologne, and a low hum of anticipatory tension. It’s 1966.…
To Sir With Love – Lulu
The smell of old velvet seats and stale popcorn lingers faintly in the memory, inextricably linked to certain pieces of…
Marie Osmond & Andy Gibb – ‘Just Once
It’s a memory-scene opener that lives not in a café, but in the shimmering, almost hyper-real glow of a 1982…
Phil Collins – Against All Odds
The year is 1984. Pop music is an explosive landscape of synth-sheen, technicolor videos, and maximalist hooks. Yet, cutting through…
The Zodiacs – “Stay”
The late hour radio hums with an archival warmth. The air is cool, perhaps a little damp from a passing…
Dizzy – Tommy Roe (1969)
The sound is unmistakable, a pure, unadulterated shot of late-sixties euphoria, yet its simplicity is a masterful deception. We are…
Patti Smith – Because The Night (1978)
I first heard this piece of music on a static-laced college radio broadcast, late one winter night. The dial was…