Author: Thomas Scovell

It’s May, 1960

Finally a decent week of summer weather in Auckland of January, 2022 as we listen to the sounds of May, 1960… Songs of the month “Angela Jones” – Johnny Ferguson [new] “Barbara” – Temptations [new] “Burning Bridges” – Jack Scott [new] “Cathy’s Clown” – Everly Brothers [new] “Cherry Pie” – Skip & Flip “Clementine” – […]

It’s April, 1960

It’s back-to-work here in New Zealand, 2023 but we’re headed to April of 1960 to hear what it sounded like… Songs of the month [new] “Angela Jones” – Johnny Ferguson [new] “Apple Green” – June Valli [new] “Baby You’ve Got What It Takes” – Brook Benton & Dinah Washington “Baby You’ve Got What It Takes” […]

It’s March, 1960

Our second playlist for 2023, and we’re listening to the sounds of March, 1960. But before we do another brief update on 4xLife automation. As of last week I had automated the creation of the weekly list of songs and the actual Youtube playlist. But I still had to create a new blog post in […]

It’s February, 1960

Happy new year folks! We missed a week of the newsletter last week due to the holiday break and spending some time on pulling together future playlists for 4x Life. A little longer intro this time to explain… It was a happy coincidence that we had playlists prepared right through to December, 1959 that ended […]

It’s January, 1960

New year, new decade! We’re entering the 1960s in our project as we enter 2023. A quick write-up today as we missed an email due to doing work automating things over the holiday break as you can read here. Songs of the month “Among My Souvenirs” – Connie Francis“Be My Guest” – Fats Domino“Bonnie Came […]

It’s December, 1959

And here we are, the very last month of the 1950s, the end of our first decade in our journey through musical history. Sadie is nearly 2.5 years old as we listen to December, 1959… Songs of the month “Always” – Sammy Turner“Among My Souvenirs” – Connie Francis*“Be My Guest” – Fats Domino“Come Into My […]