The Platters – My Dream
The memory is not of a dance floor or a teenage sock hop, but a stretch of lonely, dark highway,…
“Just A Little” – The Beau Brummels
The needle drops—or perhaps, in the modern age, the stream initializes—and a moment of perfect, minor-key melancholy floods the air.…
Tom Jones with Burt Bacharach – Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
A classic is only classic because of its adaptability—its core melody and lyric capable of shedding one skin for another,…
Carpenters – Goodbye To Love
The sound of rain on a pane of glass. That is the texture that comes to mind when the opening…
Make Your Own Kind of Music ( Mama Cass Elliott )
The world of 1969 was fractured, spinning on an axis of change that was both exhilarating and terrifying. In the…
Queen – We Will Rock You (1977)
The memory is not of a stadium, not at first. It is of a garage in the humid summer of…
Sunshine of Your Love – Cream (1967)
It starts in the dark. Not the absence of sound, but a sonic midnight, thick and aqueous, where a single…
Piano Man – Billy Joel (1973)
The air in the Executive Room—the California piano bar that inspired this song—must have been thick with the clatter of…
The Originals – Baby I’m For Real
The air in the room is heavy and dark, not with despair, but with the quiet, expectant warmth of a…
DAVID RUFFIN – IM GONNA WALK AWAY FROM LOVE
The year is 1975. The sound of American music is splitting down a seam. On one side, the plush, expansive…