Dale Hawkins 1957 – Susie-Q
The air was always thicker in Shreveport. Not just humid—musically dense, heavy with the cross-currents of country, gospel, and the…
Oldies Songs
Bachman Turner Overdrive 1974 – You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
The scene is Winnipeg, 1974. Fluorescent lights are buzzing over a mixing console. The air in the studio is thick…
The Beatles 1965 – You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
The air inside Abbey Road’s Studio Two must have felt different that Thursday afternoon in February 1965. Usually, it was…
Stevie Wonder 1969 – My Cherie Amour
The world was loud in 1969. The charts pulsed with the grit of garage rock, the expansive ambition of progressive…
Sir Douglas Quintet 1968 – Mendocino
The air in the café this afternoon is thick with the smell of old paper and fresh espresso. I’m leaning…
The Rolling Stones 1964 – It’s All Over Now
The air inside Chess Studios that June night in 1964 was thick with the ghosts of Chicago blues. Muddy Waters,…
Neil Diamond 1967 – Shilo
The vinyl crackle is the sound of time folding in on itself. It is a warm, brief burst of white…
Mr Acker Bilk 1962 – Stranger On The Shore
The air is thick with the scent of stale coffee and rain-slicked pavement. It’s late, the kind of late where…
Bobby Rydell 1960 – Volare
The air in 1960 was thick with promise and tension. The raw, seismic shock of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee…
Them 1965 – Baby Please Don’t Go
Imagine the air in a London studio, mid-1964. It’s thick with the smell of hot vacuum tubes and cigarette smoke.…