The Crests – Step By Step (1960)
The air in the 1960s was thick with transition. The raw, street-corner energy of the mid-fifties doo-wop groups, sung under…
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL by Ray Charles
The night was cold and late. The car radio, a sputtering filament of sound in the gloom of the interstate,…
Wipe Out – The Surfaris
It’s late. The car radio crackles to life, a low, orange glow illuminating the dust motes dancing in the stale…
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…