The Platters 1957 – He’s Mine
The year is 1957. The air is thick with Brylcreem and cigarette smoke, and every jukebox in America is a…
Marvin Gaye 1968 – I Heard It Through The Grapevine
The needle drops, and the air immediately thickens. It’s the late 1960s, a moment where the gleam of classic Motown…
The Elgins 1966 – Heaven Must Have Sent You
The air in the club is thick. Not with smoke, but with something older, heavier—a kind of collective anticipation. The…
The Bachelors 1964 – I Wouldn’t Trade You For The World
The year is 1964. The airwaves are a battlefield of raw, electrified youth. The Beatles are a tidal wave; The…
Cream 1966 – I Feel Free
The air in the studio must have been heavy, a volatile mix of ozone from glowing tubes, cigarette smoke, and…
Stevie Wonder 1966 – Uptight ( Everything’s Alright )
I remember precisely the first time I realized that Stevie Wonder’s early career was a story of survival, not just…
R. Dean Taylor 1973 – There’s A Ghost In My House
The needle drops—or, perhaps, the cassette begins to spool, the sound of static giving way to a frantic, irresistible current.…
Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man
The late-night radio dial, somewhere between the hiss of static and the promise of a distant signal, often holds the…
Peter Sarstedt 1969 – Where Do You Go To ( My Lovely )
The sound begins in a room thick with nostalgia, a deliberate mist of European melancholy applied directly to the magnetic…
Long John Baldry 1967 – Let The Heartaches Begin
It is an inescapable truth of music history that the most authentic paths often run uphill, while the winding road…