About This Time 70 Years Ago… It’s The Hits Of November-ish 1955!
It’s November 1955, and the airwaves are thick with sweat, smoke, and the occasional baritone moral crisis. Three songs: “Sixteen Tons,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” and “Cry Me A River” show that even in Eisenhower’s America, sin and sorrow could still top the charts.
Contributing Author DJ Professor Dan sifts through the dust, danger, and dinner-jacketed despair to tell us why seventy years later, these songs still sound alive.