Rediscover your favorite songs from the sixties and early seventies. Find those long-lost tunes you thought you had long forgotten. We maintain a searchable database of links to sound clips for over 4000 songs from 1960-1975 which can be browsed both by performing artist and by song title. Currently, over 1200 bands and artists with clips are featured - plus, we also have listings for another 3500 more acts covering the years 1940-1990. If you're not quite sure what song you are looking for, browsing through our extensive song lists is bound to help you jog your memory.
Are you bothered by some nebulous song fragment running through your head and you can't for the life of you NAME THAT TUNE?? Have you been searching garage sales for hard-to-find recordings of some obscure song for the past 20-odd years with no luck?
Since we first went online, we have helped literally thousands of people in all aspects of oldies music collecting - everything from locating out-of-print CDs to finding sheet music to naming some long-forgotten tune from half-remembered song snippets. We hope our website will help you finally track down that elusive tune you have been seeking for so long.
Happy 4th of July!
Listed below are key events in music, history, and pop culture that took place on this day between 1950-1980 when oldies music ruled the airwaves.
The Beach Boys ca. 1964
| 1953 | "Please Love Me" by B.B. King reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
| 1960 | The new flag with 50 stars (in recognition of Hawaii's admission to the Union as the 50th state on August 21, 1959) becomes official. |
| 1964 | "I Get Around" by The Beach Boys reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. |
| 1966 | President Lyndon Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into law which goes into effect the following year. |
| 1970 | "American Top 40" hosted by Casey Kasem makes its debut. |
| 1971 | The Fillmore West in San Francisco closes with a final show featuring Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Grateful Dead, and Quicksilver Messenger Service, and a poetry reading from Allen Ginsberg. |
| 1974 | Barry White marries Love Unlimited lead singer Glodean James. |
| 1975 | The Texas Senate declares the Fourth of July "Willie Nelson Day" as over 70,000 fans visit Liberty Hill for the third annual picnic and country rock show headlined by Willie himself. |
| 1976 | The US celebrates its bicentennial nationwide. |