Harry Nilsson 1968 – Everybody’s Talking
The sound arrives like a late-afternoon gust, sweeping dust and unwanted noise from the city street. It is the sound…
Oldies Songs
Teresa Brewer 1950 – Music, Music, Music
It’s late, the kind of late where the streetlights feel like they’re the only things awake, casting long, lonely shadows…
Ohio Express 1968 – Yummy Yummy Yummy
The summer of 1968 was a volatile kaleidoscope: an era defined by profound social tremor and sonic innovation. While Hendrix…
Twistin U S A – Chubby Checker 1961
The year is 1961. The air in American living rooms still hums with the recent, revolutionary shock of “The Twist,”…
Don Gibson 1958 – Oh Lonesome Me
The scene is midnight in a roadside diner, somewhere between Knoxville and Nashville, 1957. The Formica countertop gleams under fluorescent…
Craig Douglas 1962 – Oh Lonesome Me
The air in 1962 was thick with anticipation. The raw, untamed heart of rock and roll was already beating a…
Nini Rosso 1965 – IL SILENZIO ( Tema di Se non avessi più te )
There are records that simply arrive, take their place on the wall of sound, and hold it. Then there is…
Jackie DeShannon 1965 – What The World Needs Now
The needle drops, and the air itself seems to soften. It is late afternoon, the light outside my studio window…
Hermans Hermits 1966 – Jezebel
The British Invasion of 1964 landed like a thunderclap, but the subsequent years were less a continuous storm and more…
Brian Hyland – Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
It is the summer of 1960. The air is thick, shimmering with heat and the nervous, expectant energy of a…