The Searchers – Love Potion Number Nine
I first heard The Searchers’ “Love Potion No. 9” late at night on a battered transistor radio, the kind whose…
Oldies Songs
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The first time I really heard “Lightnin’ Strikes”—not just recognized it, but sat with it—was late at night when the…
Cat Stevens – Matthew And Son
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The Fortunes – Here It Comes Again
The first thing you hear is softness—a cushion of strings inhaling, as if the orchestra takes a breath for you.…
Neil Sedaka – You Mean Everything To Me
It begins with a hush—strings poised like breath held before a confession. Then the voice, instantly personable, steps forward with…
Connie Francis – Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
The tape hiss is the first thing I imagine, that faint halo you hear in your mind before the needle…
The Drifters – Saturday Night At The Movies
The song arrives the way a marquee lights up at dusk: one bulb, then another, until the whole facade glows.…
The Everly Brothers – Medley
The tape hiss arrives first—imaginary, perhaps, but easy to hear if you’ve ever fallen down an Everlys rabbit hole late…
The Danleers – One Summer Night By
The first time I re-entered “One Summer Night,” it was past midnight, the kind of late when an apartment’s pipes…
The Searchers – Don’t Throw Your Love Away
I first hear it the way many people did in 1964—at least, that’s how it plays in my mind’s ear.…