Dana – All Kinds of Everything
It’s late afternoon, and the light slants low across the listening room. There is a specific quality to the air…
Elvis Presley 1960 – Stuck On You
The air in Nashville’s RCA Studio B on the chilly night of March 20, 1960, must have been electric, thick…
The Fortunes 1965 – You’ve Got your Troubles
The air is thick, not with smoke, but with the specific, sweet melancholy of a late summer evening in 1965.…
The kingsmen 1965 – Louie, Louie
The first time I really listened to The Kingsmen’s “Louie, Louie,” I was sitting in the back of an overheated,…
The Ventures 1963 – Wipeout
The air hung thick with salt and reverb. It’s a sensory memory, one forged in the amber light of a…
Connie Francis 1961 – My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own
I was sitting in an old jukebox diner, the Formica countertop cool beneath my elbow, when it first hit me.…
The Rolling Stones 1964 – Carol
There are certain pieces of music that possess the energy of a reckless, midnight drive. Not the smooth, contemplative kind,…
Johnny Mathis 1960 – My Love For You
The year is 1960. The pop music landscape is in the middle of a tectonic shift. Rock and roll, barely…
Neil Sedaka 1968 – You Mean Everything To Me
There are certain songs that don’t simply exist in time, they define a specific emotional bandwidth of an era. They…
Chuck Berry 1958 – Memphis, Tennessee
It’s late, the kind of deep night where the streetlights outside your window seem to hum with a secret frequency.…