Shelley Fabares – Johnny Angel (1962)
The year is 1962. Before the roar of the British Invasion changed everything, American pop music lived in a delicate,…
The year is 1962. Before the roar of the British Invasion changed everything, American pop music lived in a delicate,…
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It’s late. Not just late, but the quiet, indigo hour that precedes the first pale wash of morning. The world…
It’s late afternoon, the sun low enough to throw long shadows across a recording console that has seen decades of…
The stage lights dim, settling on a collection of acoustic instruments that gleam under the focused beams. It’s a scene…
The late-night radio dial glowed a soft, anachronistic blue, a beacon in the digital darkness. It was nearly one a.m.,…
The year is 1956. The music landscape is a fractured map: rock and roll is a nascent, dangerous whisper; the…