Fats Domino – Three Nights a Week
Best Oldies Songs The Unmistakable Sound of Love: When Fats Domino’s Piano Told Our Story Ah, to listen to the records of Antoine “Fats” Domino again! It’s like pulling a perfectly preserved memory…
Roy Orbison – Sunset
The Big O’s Quiet Yearning: A Time-Capsule of Anticipation and Simple Love There are certain songs, aren’t there, that feel less like a recording and more like a captured moment…
David Essex – Turn Me Loose
That Long-Ago Year of ’73: The Moment the New King of Glam Rock Demanded His Freedom Ah, the 1970s. For those of us who remember it well, it was a…
Marty Robbins – Gone With The Wind
The Wistful Echo of a Love Lost to the Western Wind Oh, the way a melody can reach across the decades and pull a bittersweet memory right out of the…
Marty Robbins – Martha Ellen Jenkins
The Quiet Heartache of a Memory: Marty Robbins‘ Tender Ode to Lost Youth and Unrequited Devotion There are certain songs, like old photographs yellowed by time and touch, that don’t…
Marty Robbins – Time And Place For Everthing
The Quiet Wisdom of the Soul: An Underrated Gem from the Voice of the West The 1960s were a fascinating, tumultuous time in American music, a decade often remembered for…
Don Williams – I’ll Be Here In The Morning
The Quiet Assurance of a Gentle Giant: Why Love Triumphs Over the Lonesome Road In the vast, resonant gallery of classic country music, few voices possess the soothing, almost spiritual…
Marty Robbins – Meet Me Tonight In Laredo
Dust, Despair, and a Promise Broken: The Enduring Echo of the Cowboy’s Last Ride For those of us who grew up with the sounds of the Old West filtering through…
John Denver – Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
The Enduring Tale of the Outsider Who Finally Led the Way The song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” as sung by John Denver is a quintessential piece of the folk-pop icon’s…
The Osmonds – Julie
A Soulful Detour on the Road to Hard Rock: The Enduring Heartbreak of The Osmonds’ “Julie” The early 1970s belonged, in large part, to the fresh-faced, multi-talented Osmonds. Their seismic…