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…
Few songs capture the giddy rush of young love quite like the opening drum roll and crashing cymbals of Glad All Over. From the very first beat, the track by…
Some songs have a way of reaching across the decades and finding you exactly when you need them most. I remember a bright-eyed student, barely twenty years old, who once…
There is a moment in the 1973 album The Plan when the music softens, the harmonies pull back, and a single piano line begins to tell a story of longing.…
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