Paul Anka – It’s Time To Cry
The year is 1959. Rock and roll was still a visceral, slightly dangerous promise, but in the mainstream of American…
Oldies Songs
The Way It Is – Bruce Hornsby And The Range
The air in the apartment was thick with the scent of old paperbacks and stale coffee. It was late, perhaps…
Tony Orlando & Dawn – Tie a Yellow Ribbon
The window of the night bus is a sheet of black glass, reflecting the fluorescent smear of the cabin lights.…
Stampeders – Sweet City Woman
I remember the first time the needle found the groove. It was on a dusty, beige album platter in the…
Andrea Bocelli – Who Wants To Live Forever (with Brian May)
The air hung thick and velvet-dark over the rolling hills of Lajatico. It was a summer night under an impossibly…
Badfinger – Day After Day
The winter of 1971 felt perpetually grey, even inside the warm glow of the studio monitors. I can visualize the…
Deep Purple – Child In Time
It is an auditory experience, not a song. It begins in a space of monastic calm, the air thick and…
The Wedding (La Novia) – Julie Rogers
The lights dim just a fraction. There is a palpable hush, the kind of stillness that precedes a great intake…
Ferlin Husky – Wings of a Dove (Grand Ole Opry)
The year is 1960, and the stage of the Grand Ole Opry—that weathered, glorious church of country music—is bathed in…
Johnny Horton – Johnny Reb
The radio hissed, the tubes still warming, throwing a faint, amber glow across the dashboard of my father’s old pickup…