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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Rocky Mountain High - John Denver
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 Clovers, 1955
| 1951 | "Fool, Fool, Fool" by The Clovers and "I Got Loaded" by Peppermint Harris reach #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
| 1951 | Direct-dial telephone service begins in the US so that long distance calls can now be made without operator assistance. |
| 1954 | The Marine Corps War Memorial (a.k.a. Iwo Jima Memorial) in the Arlington National Cemetery is officially dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
| 1958 | "It's Only Make Believe" by Conway Twitty reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. |
| 1969 | "Sesame Street" makes its debut on National Educational Television (later PBS). |
| 1973 | "Keep On Truckin' (Part 1)" by Eddie Kendricks reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. |
| 1975 | The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board. (Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 hit, "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald," is a commemoration of this tragic event.) |
| 1979 | "Heartache Tonight" by The Eagles reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. |