Blue Feeling – The Animals
The story of The Animals is usually told in sharp, iconic flashes: the gut-wrenching wail of “House of the Rising…
Blue Monday – Fats Domino
The glow of a vacuum tube amplifier in a dimly lit room is not just a visual cue; it’s a…
Goodnight Tonight – Paul McCartney Wings
The late 1970s. The air hung thick with the shimmering dust of mirrored balls, the throb of four-on-the-floor kick drums,…
Ooh Poo Pah Doo – Paul Revere Raiders
The mid-1960s air was thick with the polished harmonies and tailored suits of the British Invasion. Clean, precise, often studio-perfected,…
Lucille – Everly Brothers
The light is always low in my memory of this song. It’s late—the kind of late where the local AM…
I Want Candy – Strangeloves
The air in the garage was thick with humidity and the metallic tang of cheap beer. It was 1965, and…
You Turn Me On – Ian Whitcomb
The mid-1960s were a kaleidoscopic blur of British youth culture washing ashore in America. The charts were dominated by the…
A Lifetime of Loneliness – Jackie DeShannon
The radio dial clicks—a fleeting moment of static, the distant roar of a 1960s city night outside—and then the sound…
Ain’t That Peculiar – Marvin Gaye
The air in my late-night study is thick with the smell of old paper and the quiet drone of the…
She’s about A Mover – Sir Douglas Quintet
The sound hits you not like a wave, but like a sudden, humid gust of wind—one that smells faintly of…