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.
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 Beatles arriving at Kennedy Airport, 1964
1962 | The US bans all Cuban imports and exports. |
1964 | The Beatles arrive in the US and are greeted by thousands of screaming fans at New York's Kennedy Airport. |
1969 | "This Is Tom Jones" premieres on ABC. |
1970 | ABC's "The Hollywood Palace" airs its final episode. |
1970 | "Venus" by The Shocking Blue reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. |
1970 | "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)/Everybody Is A Star" by Sly & The Family Stone reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
1974 | "Blazing Saddles" opens in theaters across the nation. |
1976 | "Turning Point" by Tyrone Davis reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
1976 | "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" by Paul Simon reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. |