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.
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Get Down, Get Down (Get On The Floor) - Joe Simon
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.
Buddy Holly ca. 1957
| 1954 | The first edition of Sports Illustrated is published. |
| 1957 | Buddy Holly & The Crickets give their first show at the Apollo Theater in what is to be a series of performances lasting through August 22. |
| 1962 | The Beatles original drummer, Pete Best, is replaced by Ringo Starr. |
| 1966 | The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested. |
| 1969 | During a performance by The Who at Woodstock, Abbie Hoffman leaps onstage and grabs the microphone to protest the jailing of John Sinclair of the White Panther Party. An annoyed Pete Townshend hits Hoffman on the back of his head with his guitar. |
| 1969 | "Choice Of Colors" by The Impressions reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
| 1975 | "Dream Merchant" by The New Birth also reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
| 1977 | Elvis Presley passes away at 42. |
| 1980 | "Upside Down" by Diana Ross reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |