There is a particular kind of magic in a song that can make the strongest person feel vulnerable. “Can’t Fight This Feeling” by REO Speedwagon has carried that magic since…
There are songs that simply exist and then there are songs that seem to breathe with a life of their own. Simply Red’s 1989 rendition of “If You Don’t Know…
There are few songs that can stop time, but the opening notes of Somewhere Over the Rainbow have a quiet power to suspend the world. It begins as a whisper,…
Close your eyes and let the first few piano notes carry you back to a mid-summer afternoon in 1983. That instantly recognizable bounce, the airy handclaps and the heavenly doo-wop…
There is a moment in Ricky Nelson‘s I Will Follow You that feels suspended in time. The gentle pluck of a guitar string, the soft swell of strings, and then…
There are songs that echo through time, carrying the raw emotion of a moment into every new generation. One such track is Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, a pleading love…
Close your eyes and let the first few bars wash over you. The cheerful strum of an acoustic guitar, a buoyant bass line that practically walks on air, and then…
The Ronettes and the Magic of Sleigh Ride Few sounds signal the arrival of the holiday season as unmistakably as the opening sleigh bells of The Ronettes’ version of Sleigh…
Let me in hear my cry let me in I have got to fly these words from The Osmonds timeless track Let Me In cut straight to the heart decades…
The Art of the Quiet Spell The quietest songs often leave the deepest marks. I remember an evening train pulling out of a small station. The windows fogged as bodies…
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