Supporting PF Flyers archival release of the 1956 Bob Cousy All-American, the artists of Dangerbird Records bring classic tracks from 1956 to beautiful new expression. All of these tracks have been recorded and mastered specifically for the re‑launch of the Cousy — proof that cool ages rather well.

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The Fool

Darker My Love || Play song > (To download, right-click and Save Target/Link)

Recorded in '56 by Sanford Clark

Back in 1956, "The Fool" made Country, R&B and Billboard 100 charts with its haunting expression of lost love. Written by Lee Hazlewood (later one of Frank Sinatra’s producers), rockabilly artist Sanford Clark’s single hit featured Art Casey's slapback guitar work, a reverb felt throughout rock music. L.A. psychrock band Darker My Love revives the riff with a languid pace marked with tambourine clinks evoking chains of eternal regret.

Love is Strange

Eulogies || Play song > (To download, right-click and Save Target/Link)

Recorded in ’56 by Mickey & Sylvia

For the Cousy project, Eulogies wanted to do a duet with Film School’s Lorelei Plotczyk and this song was an easy choice. It was new to the band but Lorelei knew it very well from watching “Dirty Dancing” over and over again as a young girl. The original from 1956 was recorded by R&B duo Mickey "Guitar" Baker and his former pupil Silvia Van der Pool Robinson, who later co-founded the rap label Sugar Hill Records.

Wayward Wind

The One AM Radio || Play song > (To download, right-click and Save Target/Link)

Artists from Patsy Cline to Sonny & Cher covered "The Wayward Wind," but Gogi Grant’s record topped the charts for eight weeks in 1956. The song fits The One AM Radio’s recurring theme of the isolation of wanderlust like a fellow traveler. Hrishikesh Hirway notes, "I've always felt a lot of resonance with this story, someone constantly adrift despite his best intentions, and I was excited to do my own take on it."

Green Door

Dappled Cities || Play song > (To download, right-click and Save Target/Link)

Recorded in ’56 by Gogi Grant

The original had a sweet 50s sock-hop spirit but the exuberance of Australia's Dappled Cities drives the new Green Door to the place where quirky, off-kilter pop plays best. "We really loved the spookiness of the lyrics and exaggerated that in our own version by whispering the words, and then just threw on some crazy Joe Meek organ sounds, an offbeat drum part and voila! Green Door reincarnated!"