Author: thomas

Hey folks, it’s been a while! 2 whole weeks, or 2 months depending on what time scale you’re using. Quite forgot to send out the email from December, 1955 – alas these things don’t send themselves it turns out. (Apparently the hard bit is copying from the blog to substack to email you all…) Anyway, […]

And here we are only beginning 2022, whilst finishing 1955 in our musical journey through time. Let’s see what it sounds like… The songs of December, 1955 “A Woman In Love” – Four Aces*“All At Once You Love Her” – Perry Como*“Angels In The Sky” – Crew-Cuts*“Are You Satisfied” – Rusty Draper*“At My Front Door” […]

It’s back to work in January 2022, so let’s escape back to 1955 to hear what the November charts have to offer…. The songs of November, 1955 “Ain’t That A Shame” – Pat Boone“At My Front Door” – Eldorados“At My Front Door” – Pat Boone“Autumn Leaves” – Roger Williams“Black Denim Trousers” – Cheers“Croce Di Oro” […]

We’re in the middle of summer holidays down under in the first week of 2022, as we begin to catch-up to the end of the year (as we do at 4x speed) in 1955. The songs of October, 1955 “Ain’t That A Shame” – Pat Boone“At My Front Door” – Eldorados*“At My Front Door” – […]

Merry Xmas from down under. I hope you and yours are having a wonderful end to the weird year that was 2021. But enough about today, let’s go back to hear from September, 1955: The songs of September, 1955 “A Blossom Fell” – Nat King Cole“Ain’t It A Shame” – Fats Domino“Ain’t That A Shame” […]

Workplaces are shutting up shop for the year in 2021, meanwhile back in 1955 its only August and the charts are looking something like this: The songs of August, 1955 “A Blossom Fell” – Nat King Cole & The Four Knights“A Story Untold” – Crew-Cuts“Ain’t That A Shame” – Fats Domino“Ain’t That A Shame” – […]