Category: Monthly

As spring starts to make itself known down here in New Zealand, we find ourselves in July of 1954 in our musical journey through time. The songs of July, 1954 In order to “get ahead of the game” I spent most of Sunday compiling the charts for the next 6 years of 4xLife time (or […]

And here we are, a little belatedly, arriving in June 1954 in our musical journey as The Scovells find themselves back in 2021 in New Zealand after 8 years abroad in the UK. So a combination of timezones and jetlag means this week’s edition is a little behind schedule. But enough about today, here’s what […]

It’s a busy moving weekend here in 2021 for the Scovells so we’ll keep our trip back to May, 1954 bright and breezy. First up the top hits from the pop charts: The songs of May, 1954 “A Girl A Girl” – Eddie Fisher“Answer Me My Love” – Nat King Cole“Crazy ‘Bout You Baby” – […]

My how time flies! Especially at 4 times speed – here we are listening to tunes from April, 1954 this week. Exactly a year after the project started. So happy birthday 4xLifers! The songs of April, 1954 We’re sticking to the main pop charts as its a 5 week month and there’s a bunch of […]

Here in 2021 it’s Sadie’s first birthday. Happy birthday Sadie darling, you’re our delight! Which also means it’s nearly the first birthday of this project as we started shortly after she was born. Now let’s transport ourselves back to March, 1954 to hear what it sounds like… The songs of March, 1954 “A Girl A […]

It’s February, 1954 in our journey through the pop music of the ages; 23 years to the month before I was born and 66 before Sadie was. Let’s see what it sounds like… The songs of February, 1954 We’ll stick to the main pop charts this month where we have 8 new tracks: “Bell Bottom […]