Category: Monthly

It’s November, 1957

It’s the last week of June here in 2022 and we’re passed the shortest day of the year. We’ve also managed to skip an email again. This time because, for the first time, we didn’t get to listen to the playlist on the weekend. Sadie had too much of an active social life last weekend, […]

It’s October, 1957

It’s feeling decidedly wintery, for Auckland, here in June, 1957. Let’s escape back to the comforting cool vibes of October, 1957… The songs of October, 1957 “Be-Bop Baby” – Ricky Nelson*“Black Slacks” – Joe Bennett And The Sparkletones*“Bye Bye Love” – Everly Brothers“Chances Are” – Johnny Mathis“Deep Purple” – Billy Ward*“Diana” – Paul Anka“Fascination” – […]

It’s September, 1957

It’s September, 1957 in our trip through time…which for a minute was sounding exactly like August, 1957. An administrative glitch in my pre-prepared playlists meant I had doubled-up somehow. Annoyingly only noticed at the end of building the playlist. Anyway, enough of 2022’s problems…back in time we go! The songs of September, 1957 “And That […]

It’s August, 1957

My how time flies… at both 4x and regular speed. We find ourselves in June, 2022 and listening to the music of August, 1957. Which may beg the question for some of you, what happened to July, 1957? Well, we were there…where were you? Oops! Got busy and didn’t get time to finish the blog […]

It’s July, 1957

It should be the end of May, 2022 but actually it’s the beginning of June as we slipped up on writing the blog for July, 1957. See the August entry for more info. (tl;dr: got busy) but in the meanwhile enjoy the sounds of the month… The songs of July, 1957 “A Teenager’s Romance” – […]

It’s June, 1957

Here we are half way through 1957 in our journey through pop music history, let’s hear what it sounds like… The songs of June, 1957 “A Teenager’s Romance” – Ricky Nelson“A White Sport Coat” – Marty Robbins“All Shook Up” – Elvis Presley“Bernadine” – Pat Boone“Bye Bye Love” – Everly Brothers*“C.C. Rider” – Chuck Willis“Come Go […]