Sweet – Blockbuster
Best Oldies Songs The Siren’s Call: Remembering the Glittering, Deafening Ascent of Pop’s Heaviest Hitters For those of us who remember the winter of 1973—a time perhaps best recalled through the grainy, flickering…
The Osmonds – Let Me In
The Lingering Echoes of a Plea: The Osmonds’ “Let Me In” is a timeless exploration of yearning, emotional vulnerability, and the desperate hope for reconnection. In the vast, glittering tapestry…
Fats Domino – Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
An infectious New Orleans rhythm captures the pure, simple joy of life in the Cajun bayou. The Swamp-Pop King’s Bayou Celebration: Fats Domino’s Nostalgic Cover of “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)”…
Roy Orbison – Only the Lonely
The Heartbreak Anthem of the Lonesome Soul In the summer of 1960, a sound emerged from the airwaves that was unlike anything listeners had heard before, a sound that would…
Sweet – Solid Gold Brass
A gritty, heavy statement of artistic independence forged in the fires of Glam Rock The Road to ‘Desolation Boulevard’: Sweet’s Rebellio For those of us who lived through the seismic…
John Denver – Back Home Again
The Gentle Anthem of an American Wanderer In the tapestry of 1970s folk-pop, few threads are as warmly woven and enduring as the heartfelt compositions of John Denver. The man…
Sweet – Love Is Like Oxygen
An Enduring Metaphor for Love’s Breathless Necessity Ah, The Sweet. Say the name, and for those of us who came of age in the 1970s, a rush of glammed-up, high-octane…
The Osmonds – Having A Party
That Time We Danced All Night: The Electric Joy of The Osmonds’ Unexpected Funk Hit It’s funny how a song can be a timestamp, a brief, shiny moment captured forever,…
Donny Osmond – Who
Who: The Ache of Uncertainty in a Faltering Young Love The autumn of 1972 delivered a surprise to the pop charts, a tender ache of a ballad that marked a…
Fats Domino – The Fat Man
A Boisterous New Orleans Boogie Woogie Anthem That Launched a Legend The post-war American landscape was one of transformation, and in the bustling, soulful heart of New Orleans, a sound…