The Platters – I’m Sorry
The needle drops, and immediately the room changes temperature. It’s not the raw, garage-band heat of early rock and roll,…
Oldies Songs
Gloria Jones 1964 – Tainted Love
It starts with a heartbeat, a drum kick that lands hard and fast, immediately out of breath. It doesn’t fade…
Dobie Gray 1965 – The In Crowd
The year is 1965, but the scene is late 1964. You’re in a dimly lit, smoke-hazed club somewhere on the…
The Turtles 1966 – You Baby
The dial glowed a soft, hypnotic amber. It was late, past three in the morning, the kind of quiet hour…
Dion – The Wanderer
The late autumn night had a thin, cold rain spitting against the windshield, the kind of weather that pulls the…
Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance 1973 – How Come
The air in the room stills a little when the song drops. It’s a late, rainy Tuesday night, and the…
“Sway” – Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis
The room is dark velvet and cigarette smoke, thick with the scent of expensive cologne and cheap champagne. A thousand…
a-ha – Take On Me
The genesis of a global smash hit is rarely a straight line. Often, it’s a zig-zag of false starts, critical…
AC/DC – Back In Black
I remember the first time I felt the shockwave. It wasn’t through a concert hall stack or a stadium PA,…
Guns N’ Roses – Paradise City
I remember the first time I truly heard it. It wasn’t on a radio broadcast or a music television countdown;…