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.
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.
Jerry Lee Lewis in the 1950s
| 1950 | "Blue Light Boogie (Parts 1 & 2)" by Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. |
| 1957 | "Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On" by Jerry Lee Lewis reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
| 1957 | "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1 on the Billboard Pop Charts. |
| 1957 | The Civil Rights Act of 1957 is signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
| 1965 | The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is established. |
| 1967 | "Cold Sweat" by James Brown reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
| 1971 | The Attica Prison riot begins and lasts for four days. |
| 1972 | "Back Stabbers" by The O'Jays reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
| 1978 | "Holding On (When Love Is Gone)" by L.T.D. also reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
| 1978 | "Boogie Oogie Oogie" by A Taste Of Honey reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. |