Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas 1964 – Little Children
The air in early 1964 felt like high-voltage electricity, a dizzying current flowing across the Atlantic. Merseybeat had done its…
Oldies Songs
Martha And The Vandellas 1966 – Jimmy Mack
It is two in the morning. The kind of hour where city sounds thin out, leaving only the bass frequencies…
Stevie Wonder 1963 – Finger Tips
There are pieces of music that define an era, and then there are those that simply explode it. They arrive…
Dionne Warwick 1964 – Walk On By
The memory is not a visual one, but a sonic one: the distant, slightly muffled quality of a transistor radio…
Petula Clark 1965 – Down Town
The vinyl still carries the scent of a long-gone winter evening, the static whisper of a world turning from monochrome…
Fleetwood Mac 1969 – Man Of The World
The memory is not of a stadium, nor even a smoky, post-gig London club. It is a quiet Sunday afternoon,…
The Windmills of Your Mind 1969 – Noel Harrison
The first time I heard the song, I was in a room bathed in the blue-grey glow of a late…
Del Shannon 1962 – Little Town Flirt
The studio air in the early sixties was thick with change, an anxious hum beneath the bright sheen of pop.…
Cilla Black 1964 – You’re My World
It’s an image burned into the collective memory of British pop: a tiny, fiercely coiffed Liverpudlian with a voice that…
The Ivy League – Funny How Love Can Be
There is a moment in the history of British pop—a flashpoint in the mid-sixties—when the raw, driving energy of the…