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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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.
The Doors, 1968
| 1955 | "Ain't That A Shame" by Pat Boone reaches #1 on the Billboard Pop Charts. |
| 1966 | "Mission: Impossible" premieres on CBS. |
| 1966 | "Land Of A Thousand Dances" by Wilson Pickett reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
| 1967 | The Doors appear for the first and last time on the Ed Sullivan Show. Against Sullivan's wishes, they perform "Light My Fire" with the original lyric, "Girl we couldn't get much higher." |
| 1967 | The Who destroy their instruments on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour after performing "My Generation," with the addition of mild explosives for light pyrotechnic effect. Tommy Smothers looks on in shock as bedlam ensues in which Pete Townsend grabs Smother's guitar and smashes it, a piece of cymbal shrapnel from the explosion cuts into Keith Moon's arm, and Townsend's hair is singed. |
| 1976 | The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled in Palmdale, CA by NASA. "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the "Star Trek" series principle cast members attend the dedication ceremony. |