50s, 60s, and 70s Culture

A list of the greatest Christmas and Holiday songs of the '50s, '60s, and '70s, presented by your Oldies Guide at About.com, including song history, recording info, chart action, and more.

A list of the best Mardi Gras oldies, as celebrated by New Orleans carnival revelers for decades now, as picked by me, your oldies guide at About.com. Funk, rock, R&B, brass band music, and more from the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

The best "work songs" of the 50s, 60s, and 70s... oldies songs about work and working, about trying to find a job and trying to lose one. A list of the greatest Top 40 classics about workers and laborers, handpicked by your Oldies guide at About.com.

A basic guide to Surf/Hot Rod music, its best and most popular artists, singers, and songs, and a history of how the style fits into other areas of popular music. From the Oldies music guide at About.com.

You thought they were white - black artists who fooled radio listeners from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, compiled by your Oldies Guide at About.com.

Protest songs that dealt with money and power rather than race or war -- classic oldies and hits from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, compiled by your Oldies Guide at About.com.

Here's a list of the best teen tragedy songs of the Fifties, as hand-picked by your Guide. It's subjective, of course, but it covers the early days of rock and roll in search of what your Guide considers the saddest and most morbid teen songs.

Early Seventies pop had a decidedly vicious, morbid streak. Pop-culture watchdogs like to complain about today's rock, but these weird little ditties were all over transistor radios then, and no one seemed to notice. This purely subjective list represents the fave picks of Your Guide (me) and where to find them.

They had words once, but these singles somehow became instrumental hits instead -- hits from the 50s, 60s, and 70s in rock, pop, soul, r&b, and more. A list compiled by your Oldies Guide at About.com!

Dick Clark was known as America's Oldest Teenager, the host of ABC's American Bandstand who introduced rock and roll to the country's living rooms before moving into game shows and TV specials. This profile is the latest in a series on music's most important artists of the first top 40 era, written and compiled by your oldies Guide here at...

American Bandstand's greatest and most important moments, a historical timeline outlining the rise and fall of the legendary ABC-TV dance show hosted by the late great Dick Clark. Written and compiled by your oldies Guide here at About.com.