The Crests 1960 – Trouble in Paradise ( Doo Wop )
The vinyl is almost always dusty. You pull the 45 from its sleeve—Coed Records, a paper label that looks like…
Oldies Songs
Donnie Brooks 1961 – Mission Bell
The year 1961 arrived with the sweet, fading echo of a bell that had rung out the previous summer. The…
The Gentrys 1965 – Keep On Dancing
There are moments in music history that feel less like grand design and more like a happy accident caught on…
Bobby Goldsboro 1968 – Honey
The year is 1968. The world is splitting at the seams, yet in the quiet, analog heart of the record…
The Spencer Davis Group 1967 – I’m A Man
There are pieces of music that arrive with a full manifesto, a declaration of intent hammered out in the studio.…
Northern Soul Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon 1968 – Breakin’ Down The Walls Of Heartache
The moment the needle drops on “Breakin’ Down The Walls Of Heartache,” the air thickens with anticipation, then explodes. This…
Marv Johnson 1969 – I’ll Pick A Rose For My Rose
The air in the room is thick and sweet, smelling faintly of sweat, varnish, and something indefinable, something electric—a ghost…
Helen Shapiro 1961 – Walking Back To Happiness
It is 1961. The sound of the future is a ragged, raw thing being hammered out in damp basement clubs,…
Strawberry Alarm Clock 1967- Incense & Peppermints
The air was thick with something electric in 1967. It was a summer—and then a fall—of transition, a head-rush of…
The Rolling Stones 1966 – Mother’s Little Helper
The needle drops, and before the snarl of Mick Jagger or the punch of Charlie Watts’s backbeat can set the…