Three Dog Night – An Old Fashioned Love Song
Oldies Songs “An Old Fashioned Love Song”: A Simple, Heartfelt Plea for Enduring Affection in a Changing World. There are moments in music when a simple sentiment, delivered with genuine warmth and…
Buffalo Springfield – Hot Dusty Roads
“Hot Dusty Roads”: A Raw, Restless Portrait of Early Folk-Rock Wanderers. For those of us who bore witness to the seismic shifts in popular music during the mid-to-late 1960s, a…
Linda Ronstadt & The Nelson Riddle Orchestra – What’s New?
“What’s New?”: A Timeless Lament for Lost Love and the Gentle Ache of Unchanged Feelings. For those of us who appreciate the enduring elegance of classic American popular song, and…
Showaddywaddy – A Little Bit Of Soap
“A Little Bit Of Soap”: A Glimpse into Cleansing Regret and the Hope for a Fresh Start. For those of us who recall the vibrant, often wonderfully anachronistic, presence of…
Three Dog Night – Shambala
“Shambala”: A Visionary Search for Inner Peace and an Idealistic, Utopian Sanctuary. There are certain songs that, even decades later, manage to evoke a specific kind of spiritual yearning, a…
Humble Pie – I Don’t Need No Doctor
“I Don’t Need No Doctor”: A Raw, Electrifying Declaration of Love’s Irremediable Power. For those of us who recall the visceral thrill of early 1970s hard rock and the intoxicating…
Darts – Come Back My Love
“Come Back My Love”: A Harmonious Plea for Reconciliation and Rekindled Romance. For those of us who recall the vibrant, often joyous, explosion of the rock & roll revival movement…
Showaddywaddy – Heartbeat
A Neon Glow of Innocence: When Rock ’n’ Roll Remembered Its First Kiss In 1975, Showaddywaddy, Britain’s most flamboyant revivalists of 1950s rock ’n’ roll, released “Heartbeat” as part of…
Three Dog Night – Never Been To Spain
“Never Been To Spain”: A Humorous Yet Profound Reflection on Life’s Unforeseen Journeys and Unfulfilled Fantasies. For those of us who recall the sonic landscape of the late 1960s and…
Roxy Music – Editions Of You
“Editions of You”: A Dazzling, Anxious Dance Through Modernity and the Shifting Sands of Identity. For those of us who experienced the exhilarating, often disorienting, cultural shifts of the early…