Peggy Lee – Fever
It is two minutes and thirty-three seconds of perfect, crystalline tension. It arrives in the velvet hour, after the last…
Do You Want To Dance – The Beach Boys
The year is 1965. The touring is a brutal, ceaseless blur, and Brian Wilson, the band’s visionary heart, has just…
Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
I remember the first time I heard it on a proper sound system—not car speakers, not tinny headphones, but through…
Jackie DeShannon – When You Walk In The Room
The true history of pop music is written less in the number one singles than in the songs that lay…
The Osmonds – Yo Yo
The air in the studio was thick, not with the sterile calm of a corporate pop session, but with the…
Bill Haley & His Comets – Rock Around The Clock (1955)
I wasn’t there, of course. I was a few decades too late for the opening credits of Blackboard Jungle, the…
Eddie Cochran – Twenty Flight Rock
🎙️ The Grind and The Glamour: Climbing the Stairs with Eddie Cochran The lights are low, casting long shadows in…
T. Rex – Get It On (1971)
The music cuts through the air like a flashbulb in a smoky room. You don’t just hear it, you feel…
Carl Perkins – Honey Don’t 1956
The year is 1956. The air is thick with the scent of Brylcreem and ambition. The revolution wasn’t televised; it…
Blues by Big Mama Thornton – Hound Dog and Down Home Shakedown
The air in the room, when you drop the needle on Big Mama Thornton’s original “Hound Dog,” is not just…