Booker T & The MGs 1962 – Green Onions
The air in the former movie theater on McLemore Avenue in Memphis, 1962, must have smelled like stale popcorn and…
Oldies Songs
Tommy Roe 1962 – Sheila
The year is 1962, a restless pivot point in American music. The ghosts of the pioneers were still rattling the…
Paul & Paula 1963 – Hey Paula
The year is 1963. The scent of lacquer hairspray and freshly-baked idealism hangs in the air. Television screens are glowing…
The Dave Clark Five 1964 – Do You Love
The air in the rehearsal hall—reportedly a church in Tottenham, North London—must have been thick with cigarette smoke and raw…
Dave Berry 1965 – The Crying Game
The air hung heavy and stale in the club, thick with cigarette smoke and cheap cologne. It was 1964, and…
Marty Wilde 1959 – Teenager in Love
The year is 1959. In America, rock and roll’s first wave—the founding myth—is already cresting, its pioneers derailed by a…
Paul Anka 1959 – Lonely Boy
The year is 1959. The transistor radio sits on the nightstand, its plastic casing faintly warm, glowing dimly in the…
Peter & Gordon 1966 – Woman
It is a quiet, late afternoon memory, washed in the amber glow of a pre-digital era. The old stereo, a…
Gerry & The Pacemakers 1965 – I’ll Be There
The year 1965. The air still crackled with the energy of the British Invasion, but the sound was already shifting.…
Peter And Gordon 1965 – To Know You Is To Love You Peter
The radio dial in 1965 was a chaotic, brilliant mosaic. It was the absolute zenith of the British Invasion, a…