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.
Bing Crosby, Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey, 1950
1951 | "If" by Perry Como reaches #1 on the Billboard Pop Charts. |
1956 | "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" by Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
1956 | "The Poor People Of Paris" by Les Baxter, His Chorus & Orchestra reaches #1 on the Billboard Pop Charts. |
1958 | "Tequila" by The Champs also reaches #1 on the Billboard Pop Charts. |
1960 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion. |
1972 | Ringo Starr releases "Back Off Boogaloo." |
1973 | "Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)" by Gladys Knight & The Pips reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |
1979 | "I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl)" by Instant Funk also reaches #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. |