Somebody Nobody Wants – Dion
The city always sounds different after midnight. The familiar rumble of traffic turns into a low, echoing hum; the neon…
THE SEARCHERS – What Have They Done To The Rain
The transistor radio, usually a reliable source of electric, giddy chaos, crackled with an uncharacteristic hush. It was 1964, and…
Baby The Rain Must Fall – Glenn Yarbrough
The night was thick and the headlights sliced through a warm Texas drizzle, a perfect cinematic grey. The radio, a…
The Searchers – Saturday Night Out
The smell of dust and warm tubes. A dial softly glowing, centered on the faint crackle of a distant AM…
Twist And Shout The Beatles
The air in EMI Studio Two on February 11, 1963, must have been thick with exhaustion and the acrid smell…
The Hollies – Stop In The Name Of Love
The sound hits you not like a gunshot, but like a rising tide. It’s the sweep of strings, yes, but…
THE CRYSTALS ” LITTLE BOY “
The year is 1964. The British Invasion has landed, tearing at the meticulously constructed pop empire of Tin Pan Alley…
Turn Around, Look At Me – The Vogues
The air in the café hung thick with the smell of old coffee and forgotten rain. Outside, the city was…
The Monkees – Daily Nightly
The year is 1967. Outside the sun-drenched, controlled chaos of the Monkees’ television set, a very different kind of revolution…
Three Dog Night “Easy to be Hard”
The darkness of 1969 did not arrive with a thunderclap. It crept in on the back of a string arrangement,…