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.
Get Off Of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones
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.
Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (a.k.a. David Seville), creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks
| 1959 | At the 1st Grammy Awards, "Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu (Volare)" by Domenico Modugno is named Song of the Year and Record of the Year, and "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (performed as "David Seville & The Chipmunks") is named Best Comedy Performance and Best Recording for Children. |
| 1961 | The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South to challenge local laws and customs that enforce segregation. |
| 1963 | "Baby Workout" by Jackie Wilson reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
| 1970 | At Kent State University, Ohio National Guardsmen open fire, killing four students and wounding 11. The students were protesting the US invasion of Cambodia. |
| 1974 | "The Loco-Motion" by Grand Funk reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. |
| 1977 | Former President Richard Nixon is interviewed by David Frost. |
| 1980 | America's Top 10, the TV version of radio's American Top 40 and hosted by Casey Kasem, makes its debut. |