Guy Mitchell 1957 – Rock-A-Billy
It’s 1957. The air in the Columbia Recording Studio A in New York City is thick with cigarette smoke and…
Oldies Songs
Guy Mitchell 1956 – Singing The Blues
The air in the room was thick with smoke and expectation. It was late 1956, and the sonic landscape of…
Joe Cocker 1968 – With A Little help From My Friends
The air in the studio was reportedly thick with a sense of audacity. It was 1968, and the Beatles’ Sgt.…
Ralph McTell 1969 – Streets Of London
The sound of rain on a distant window pane. That’s the atmosphere of Ralph McTell’s “Streets of London,” not in…
The Animals 1964 – Baby Let Me Take You Home
The memory is as sharp as a clean arpeggio in a silent room: a late night, the car radio humming…
Lesley Gore 1966 – Young Love
I remember the first time this particular piece of music stopped me cold. It wasn’t the teenage angst of “It’s…
Jim Reeves 1957 – Four Walls
The radio was always a different country after midnight. The static hissed and popped like distant embers, an atmospheric backdrop…
Percy Faith & His Orchestra 1959 – A Summer Place
The air in my listening room tonight is exactly right: dark mahogany scent, the comforting hiss of a clean vinyl…
Barry Ryan 1969 – Eloise
The year is 1969—or late 1968, depending on which side of the New Year’s singles chart you trace its monumental…
Gene Pitney 1965 – I Must Be Seeing Things
The air in the listening room is thick, not with cigarette smoke or stale beer, but with the quiet reverence…