It’s Christmas Slade – Merry Xmas Everybody
It is the sonic equivalent of a living room on Christmas morning, twenty minutes after the paper chains have gone…
Oldies Songs
Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas 1964 – From A Window
The air in the room is warm, thick with the smell of old paperbacks and something faintly metallic—the tang of…
Shocking Blue 1969 – Venus
The needle drops. There is that briefest moment of silence, the promise of sound suspended in the air. Then, the…
Bo Diddley 1965 – Bo Diddley
The summer of 1965 felt like the world was spinning on a new axis. London’s Carnaby Street was exporting its…
Ray Charles 1962 – Unchain My Heart
I remember the first time this song truly hit me. It wasn’t the radio version, clipped and compressed to ride…
Chuck Berry 1964 – You Never Can Tell
I remember the first time I felt that groove hit, not as the familiar soundtrack to a cinematic dance sequence,…
The Beatles 1965 – I Feel Fine
The fog of a late October afternoon settles thick over the streets of London. Inside Studio Two at EMI Studios,…
Shirley Ellis 1965 – The Clapping Song
The old café felt heavy with the silence of a late Saturday morning, the kind of stillness that precedes a…
Stevie Wonder 1965 – Uptight (Everything’s Alright)
The year is 1965. The air in Detroit is thick with the churning ambition of Motown, but a small crisis…
Marvin Gaye 1962 – Hitch Hike
The early Motown years were a constant, glorious experiment, a sonic laboratory where the polish of pop was being buffed…