HEY GIRL – THE TEMPTATIONS
The needle drops, and for a moment, the world outside the speakers—the grit and hustle of 1960s America, the relentless…
Sloop John B by The Beach Boys
The wind had been knocked out of the sails of pop music, and nobody knew it yet. It was 1966,…
Beach Boys – Don’t Worry Baby
The scene is always the same in my memory: a late-night drive, the city lights blurring into streaks of gold…
Bowling Green – The Everly Brothers
The air hangs thick and sweet on a late-summer night, the kind of stillness that invites memory. Out on the…
Bill Haley & His Comets – Calling All Comets (1956)
It is easy, looking back through the rear-view mirror of music history, to reduce Bill Haley & His Comets to…
Jerry Lee Lewis – Crazy Arms
The air inside the tiny room at 706 Union Avenue—Sun Studio in Memphis—must have been thick with cigarette smoke and…
Nat King Cole – “Too Young”
The track drops in with a snap of pure, unadulterated pleasure. It doesn’t fade; it simply arrives, fully formed in…
Sam Cooke “Good News”
The track drops in with a snap of pure, unadulterated pleasure. It doesn’t fade; it simply arrives, fully formed in…
Jerry Lee Lewis – One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)
I first heard this piece of music on a cassette tape, late at night, in the pale glow of a…
Jerry Lee Lewis “You Win Again” (1979)
It’s 3:00 AM on a stretch of highway where the asphalt has begun to look like wet obsidian under the…