Author: Thomas Scovell

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 […]

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 […]

It’s nearly time for Xmas break here in 2022, and near the end of the year in our journey through musical time too. Let’s hear what it sounds like… Songs of the month “‘Til I Kissed You” – Everly Brothers“A Worried Man” – Kingston Trio“Always” – Sammy Turner*“Be My Guest” – Fats Domino*“Believe Me” – […]

We’re almost at the end of the ’50s as we find ourselves rounding out 2022. Let’s hear what it sounded like… Songs of the month “‘Til I Kissed You” – Everly Brothers“A Worried Man” – Kingston Trio*“Baby Talk” – Jan And Dean“Broken-Hearted Melody” – Sarah Vaughan“Brook Benton” – Homer & Jethro*“Come On And Get Me” […]

It’s nearly December here in 2022 and its starting to feel christmasy, perhaps because it seems Sadie has been learning Xmas tunes at nursery and is spontaneously bursting into song. Meanwhile, let’s hear what they were listening to in September, 1959… Songs of the month “‘Til I Kissed You” – Everly Brothers“A Big Hunk O’ […]

A busy couple of weeks in 2022, so we missed posting about our July, 1959 listens – you can find that playlist here. A good thing Xmas is coming actually as we’ve nearly run out of pre-prepared playlists, we’ll have to spend a few days over the holiday break running the numbers to stock up […]