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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One More Heartache - Marvin Gaye
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech (1963).
| 1955 | Emmett Till, a 14-year old African-American boy from Chicago who was visiting relatives, is brutally murdered in Mississippi. This incident sparks world-wide indignation and spurs the emergent American Civil Rights Movement. |
| 1957 | Senator Strom Thurmond begins a record-long filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957. |
| 1961 | "Wooden Heart" by Joe Dowell reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. |
| 1961 | Motown releases what will be the label's first #1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes. |
| 1963 | Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I Have A Dream" speech at the Civil Rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. |
| 1963 | Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan apartment, and the subsequent treatment of their accused killer (who is later exonerated) leads to the passing of the Miranda Rights. |
| 1964 | The Philadelphia race riot begins. |
| 1968 | Today is Day Three of the turbulent 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and the violence comes to a head as thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle local police and Illinois National Guard in the streets. |
| 1971 | "Spanish Harlem" by Aretha Franklin reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
| 1976 | "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" by KC & The Sunshine Band also reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |