Oldies: Pass the Fritos III – Part 4

I was living and working in Bulgaria at the turn of the century when I received in the mail from my sister in America a CD version of the Rushmore soundtrack (at the time it was one of my favorite movies) and the album helped renew my interest in British Invasion music. Then, after moving to Northern Virginia in 2001, I started becoming reacquainted with other oldies music and I especially enjoyed listening to oldies songs on those booth jukeboxes at the Silver Diner in Clarendon (diners + oldies = good times).

The Hollies

After a painful break up in the mid-‘00s I started turning more and more to music for healing and oldies music was often just what the doctor ordered. I remember spending quiet nights in my Falls Church basement apartment with a glass of red wine and my French bulldog, Maurice, listening to Love’s Forever Changes album and feeling pretty content. Perhaps that sounds pathetic but it was all part of a healing process and those nights made me a much stronger, more artistic, and more spiritual person. Music can help do that. Here are some more of my favorite oldies songs. Enjoy!

Love

01. Dusty Springfield – “24 Hours from Tulsa” (1964)

02. Elvis Presley – “Do the Clam” (1965)

03. Pink Floyd – “See Emily Play” (1967)

04. Chad & Jeremy – “A Summer Song” (1964)

05. Love – “Bummer in the Summer” (1967)

06. Love – “The Red Telephone” (1967)

07. The Cyrkle – “Red Rubber Ball” (1966)

08. Love – “7 and 7 Is” (1966)

09. The Zombies – “The Way I Feel Inside” (1966)

10. The Bobby Fuller Four – “Let Her Dance” (1965)

11. Peter and Gordon – “A World Without Love” (1964)

12. Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders – “Game of Love” (1965)

13. The Walker Brothers – “Stay with Me Baby” (1967)

14. The Hollies – “Bus Stop” (1966)

15. The Hollies – “King Midas in Reverse” (1967)

16. The Mindbenders – “Groovy Kind of Love” (1965)

17. Roy Orbison – “I Drove All Night” (1987)

18. The Tremeloes – “Here Comes My Baby” (1967)

19. The Hollies – “I’m Alive” (1965)

20. The Kinks – “Nothin' in the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl” (1965)

The Jean and Maurice

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