The Lennon Sisters – Jamaica Farewell
The air in the living room was always static and hushed on Saturday nights. The scent of furniture polish and…
Glenn Miller – Chattanooga Choo Choo – Sun Valley Serenade
It is the sonic equivalent of a newsreel in Technicolor. Close your eyes and you’re not in the room; you’re…
The Tremeloes – Call Me Number 1
The year is 1969. The great sonic conversation of the sixties was winding down, mutating into something heavier, more introspective,…
The Move – Blackberry Way
It’s an overcast Tuesday in late autumn, and a chill has settled into the bones of the afternoon. The world…
The Coasters “Searchin'”
The glow of the late-night dial was amber and dusty. It was 1957, and the airwaves were a chaotic landscape…
Diana Ross & The Supremes – Reflections
The year is 1967. The world is spinning on a dizzy axis of color, change, and sound distortion. On the…
Neil Sedaka – Laughter in the Rain
There is a period in every artist’s career—a difficult, barren stretch—when the phone stops ringing and the royalty checks thin…
Terry Stafford “Suspicion”
The air in 1964 America was vibrating at a new, relentless frequency. It was the sound of mop-tops and Liverpudlian…
Johnny Cash & June Carter – Jackson
The moment the track begins, it feels like the door to a smoky, clapboard roadhouse is swinging open. There is…
I’M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY (1949) by Hank Williams
The rain outside the Herzog Studio in Cincinnati on August 30, 1949, must have sounded like a drumroll to despair.…