Bobby Day – Rockin’ Robin (1958)
The year is 1958. A transistor radio sits humming on a dusty shelf in a roadside diner, its plastic grille…
Oldies Songs
Danny & The Juniors – Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay
I remember a damp, late-autumn evening, cruising the suburbs with a friend, the car windows fogged up, the radio hiss…
Marty Robbins – The Story Of My Life (1957)
It’s late, the kind of hour where the world outside seems to have paused, and all that moves is the…
Louis Armstrong – La vie en rose
The air is thick with smoke and suggestion. It’s not a memory of a specific place, but the feeling of…
Les Paul & Mary Ford – Vaya con Dios (1953)
The air in the mid-fifties living room was thick with a kind of post-war, pre-rock-and-roll quietude. Radios, gleaming with walnut…
Edith Piaf – Non, Je ne regrette rien
The first time you hear it—truly hear it, stripped of its cultural baggage and cinematic context—it’s not a song, but…
Andy Williams – House of Bamboo
The year is 1958. We picture Andy Williams, already a rising star, a clean-cut face ready to transition from a…
Chuck Berry – Roll Over Beethoven (1956)
The year is 1956. The scent of hot wax and vacuum tubes hangs in the air of Universal Recording Corp.…
Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons (1955)
The first sound is the silence being broken by a simple, dry rhythmic snap. Snap, snap, snap. It’s the sound…
The Kingston Trio – Tom Dooley (1958)
The year is 1958. The airwaves are thick with the frantic energy of rock and roll—Elvis’s swagger, Jerry Lee’s wild…