Andy Williams – Danny Boy
The memory is a monochrome photograph: a late-autumn evening, the hiss of a turntable, and a single, flawless baritone voice…
Rolling Stones – Get Off Of My Cloud
It’s a sound I first remember hearing on a road trip, late at night, the car windows down, the radio…
George Jones – Choices
The clock has struck midnight. The air is thick with the scent of stale coffee and something like woodsmoke, even…
The Dave Clark Five – You Got What It Takes
The world of 1967 was a blur of paisley and feedback. The British Invasion, once a unified, monochrome force, had…
Connie Stevens Sixteen Reasons
The scene is simple, yet indelible: a television screen bathed in the warm, flickering glow of the late 1950s, projecting…
The Shirelles – Everybody Loves a Lover (1966)
The needle drops. Not on the familiar, bubblegum-pink world of the early sixties, but somewhere deeper, wider. It’s late 1966,…
Mary Hopkin – In My Life
The air in the café was thick and sweet, smelling of old paperbacks and chicory coffee. It was late, maybe…
The Beach Boys- California Girls (1965)
The needle drops, and before the bassline can even suggest a rhythm, the mind is elsewhere. It’s 1965, the air…
The Temptations – Soul To Soul
The cassette deck of my beat-up car always seemed to know when I needed a sermon in soul. It wasn’t…
Glen Campbell – Amazing Grace
The glamour of the ’70s country-pop machine could often feel blinding. Picture the man—Glen Campbell—the television host, the golden-voiced conduit…