ROY ORBISON AND THE NEARNESS OF LOSS: IT WASN’T VERY LONG AGO
Best Oldies Songs A quiet reckoning with how swiftly love, certainty, and innocence can slip into memory Released in 1963 as the B side to the Top 30 Billboard Hot 100 hit Blue…
Marty Robbins – Your Heart’s Turn to Break
A Reckoning of Heartbreak and Consequence in Country Music Your Heart’s Turn to Break by Marty Robbins stands in the quieter corners of his early catalog as a stark and…
Marty Robbins – Chapel Bell Chime
A quiet hymn about faith that arrives not in triumph, but in the stillness where belief finally speaks When Marty Robbins recorded Chapel Bell Chime, he did so at a…
Marty Robbins – I’m Having a Ball
I’M HAVING A BALL IS A WINDBLOWN DECLARATION OF LIBERATION AND SELF-AFFIRMATION IN THE WAKE OF HEARTBREAK “I’m Having a Ball” stands as one of Marty Robbins’s most cheekily defiant…
Marty Robbins – All the World Is Lonely Now
ALL THE WORLD IS LONELY NOW SPEAKS TO THE EMPTY HORIZONS LEFT BEHIND BY LOST LOVE In early 1957 Marty Robbins placed All the World Is Lonely Now within the…
Conway Twitty – Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
A familiar warning transformed into a quiet meditation on belief, memory, and the weight of tradition. Conway Twitty recorded SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN for his 1986 holiday album…
Conway Twitty – Fraulein
A young American voice reaches across memory, longing, and borrowed language to name a love that feels both innocent and irrevocable. Released in 1957, Fraulein became the song that carried…
Slade – Mama Weer All Crazee Now
A riotous anthem that turns chaos into communion and youthful defiance into shared joy. Released in 1972, MAMA WEER ALL CRAZEE NOW stormed to number one on the UK Singles…
Marty Robbins – Windows Have Pains
EVEN WINDOWS HAVE PAINS WHEN THE HEART IS LEFT TO RAIN In the autumn of 1968, Marty Robbins placed “Windows Have Pains” deep within the track sequence of his I…
Marty Robbins – You Only Want Me When You’re Lonely
A quiet confession about love that arrives only after the room has gone dark When Marty Robbins released You Only Want Me When You’re Lonely, the song quickly established itself…