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.…
Bad Finger – Come And Get It
I first met “Come and Get It” the way many people did: cresting out of a car speaker on an…
The Beach Boys – God Only Knows
I remember the first time the French horn entered—soft as a door opening into a brighter room—and the world around…
Jim Reeves – I Love You Because
I can still hear the faint bloom of strings before the voice arrives—the kind of soft, curtain-opening swell that tells…