What are some of your favorite oldies music?!
Question: What are some of your favorite oldies music!?
Answers:
The term ‘oldies,’ to me, means from the birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll in the 1955 to 1970!. I call this the ‘Golden Age of Oldies!.’ Others may define it differently, especially with regard to one’s age!. Most of the songs listed below date from 1955 to 1970 but a few of them are a wee bit later than that!.
If you like love ballads, download some songs from the Platters, the greatest ballad group ever!. Just my opinion but I think there are very few people who know the Platters and their great songs would disagree with me!.
The greatest of the great Platter songs:
The Platters - Only You (And You Alone)
The Platters - I'm Sorry
The Platters – The Great Pretender
The Platters - My Prayer
The Platters - On My Word Of Honor
The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
The Platters - Twilight Time
The Platters - You'll Never, Never Know
If you like ballads that are a little bit up tempo, you can’t get much better than the Drifters:
The Drifters - Dance With Me
The Drifters - (If You Cry) True Love, True Love
The Drifters - This Magic Moment
The Drifters - There Goes My Baby
The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me
The Drifters - Some Kind Of Wonderful
The Drifters - Under The Boardwalk
The Drifters - Up On The Roof
The girl groups of this era were also good: Martha and the Vandellas, The Shirelles, The Crystals, The Chiffons, The Ronettes, The Marvelettes, The Supremes and the Angels!.
Some other of my personal favorite oldies from this era (but YMMV):
Ben E!. King - Stand By Me
Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want)
Bobby 'The Polish Prince' Vinton - Please Love Me Forever
Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode
Chuck Berry – Almost Grown
Danny & The Juniors - At The Hop
Del Shannon - Runaway
Dion - Donna The Prima Donna
Dion - Love Came To Me
Dion - Runaround Sue
Dion & The Belmonts - Where Or When
Dionne Warwick - Anyone Who Had A Heart
Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Big Girls Don't Cry
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Dawn (Go Away)
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Rag Doll
Freddy 'Boom Boom' Cannon - Tallahassee Lassie
Freddy 'Boom-Boom' Cannon - Palisades Park
Gene Pitney - Half Heaven Half Heartache
Gene Pitney - It Hurts To Be In Love
Gene Pitney - Only Love Can Break A Heart
Gene Pitney - If I Didn’t Have a Dime (to Play the Jukebox)
Gene Pitney – Every Breath I Take
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - If You Don't Know Me by Now
Harpers Bizarre - The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
J!. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers - Last Kiss
Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher
Jay & The Americans - Cara Mia
Jimmy Jones - Handy Man
Jimmy Jone – Good Timin’
Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy (for the Rest of Your Life, Never Make a Pretty Woman Your Wife)
Johnny Rivers - Memphis
Lee Andrews & The Hearts - Long Lonely Nights
Lee Andrews & The Hearts - Teardrops
Left Banke - Walk Away Renee
Lenny Welch - Ebb Tide
Lesley Gore - It's My Party
Lesley Gore - Judy's Turn To Cry
Little Eva - The Loco-Motion
Little Peggy March - Hello Heartache, Goodbye Love
Little Peggy March - I Will Follow Him
Lloyd Price - Personality
Lou Christie - Rhapsody In The Rain
Lou Christie - The Gypsy Cried
Lou Christie - Two Faces Have I
Martha & The Vandellas - Heat Wave
Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Mary Wells - My Guy
Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs - Stay
Nathaniel Mayer & The Fabulous Twilights - Village Of Love
Neil Diamond - Solitary Man
Neil Sedaka – Calendar Girl
Neil Sedaka - Oh! Carol
Neil Sedaka - Stairway To Heaven
Nino Tempo & April Stevens - Deep Purple
Paul Revere & The Raiders - Kicks
Peter & Gordon - I Go To Pieces
Phil Phillips & The Twilights - Sea Of Love (the original version)
Question Mark & The Mysterians - 96 Tears
Ral Donner - She's Everything (I Wanted You To Be)
Randy & The Rainbows - Denise
Ricky Nelson - Poor Little Fool
Roy Head & The Traits - Treat Her Right
Roy Orbison - Crying
Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
Ruby & The Romantics - Our Day Will Come
Sam Cooke - Chain Gang
Sam Cooke - Cupid
Sam The Sham & The Pharohs - Wooly Bully
Santo & Johnny - Sleepwalk
Seals and Crofts - Summer Breeze
Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard
Skeeter Davis - The End Of The World
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints
Thurston Harris - Little Bitty Pretty One
Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony Mony
The Angels - My Boyfriend's Back
The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun
The Association - Cherish
The Beach Boys - 409
The Beach Boys – Surfin’ Safari
The Beau Brummels - Just a Little
The Cadillacs - Speedo
The Capris - There's A Moon Out Tonight
The Cascades - Rhythm of the Rain
The Chantels - Maybe
The Charts - Deserie
The Chiffons - A Love So Fine
The Chiffons - He's So Fine
The Chiffons - One Fine Day
The Chimes - Once in a While
The Cleftones - Heart and Soul
The Clovers - Love Potion No!.9
The Contours - Do You Love Me
The Crests - The Angels Listened In
The Crests - Trouble In Paradise
The Critters - Mr!. Dieingly Sad
The Critters - Younger Girl
The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron
The Dell-Vikings - Whispering Bells
The Diamonds - Little Darlin' (one of my all time favs)
The Earls - Remember Then
The Earls - Never
The Edsels - Rama Lama Ding Dong
The Elegants - Little Star
The Elgins - Heaven Must Have Sent You (one of the better, yet lesser known MOTOWN songs by one of its lesser known groups)
The Essex - Easier Said Than Done
The Everly Brothers - Bird Dog
The Exciters - Tell Him
The Five Satins - (I Remember) In the Still of the Night
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You
The Flamingos - Nobody Loves Me Like You Do
The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
The Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)
The Grass Roots - Live For Today
The Heartbeats - A Thousand Miles Away
The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)
The Isley Brothers – SHOUT!
The Jarmels - A Little Bit of Soap
The Kalin Twins - When
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City
The Mama's & The Papa's - California Dreamin'
The Mama's & The Papa's - Monday Monday
The Marcels - Blue Moon
The Marcels - Heartaches
The Marvelettes - Beechwood 4-5789
The Marvelettes - Please Mr!. Postman
The Mello-Kings - Tonite, Tonite
The Murmaids - Popsicles & Icicles
The Mystics - Hushabye
The O'Jays - Love Train
The Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me
The Penguins - Earth Angel
The Rays - Silhouettes
The Regents - Barbara Ann (the original)
The Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
The Rivieras - California Sun
The Rocky Fellers - Killer Joe
The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
The Ronettes - Be My Baby
The Royal Teens - Believe Me
The Royal Teens - Short Shorts
The Safaris - Image of a Girl
The Sandpipers - Come Saturday Morning
The Sandpipers - Guantanamera
The Schoolboys - Please Say You Want Me
The Searchers - Needles And Pins
The Searchers - Someday We're Gonna Love Again
The Seeds – Pushin’ Too Hard
The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack
The Shields - You Cheated
The Shirelles - (You Say!.!.!.)Tonight's The Night
The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
The Silhouettes - Get A Job
The Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About a Mover
The Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino
The Skyliners - Since I Don't Have You
The Skyliners - This I Swear
The Spaniels - Goodnite Sweetheart, Goodnite
The Springfields - Silver Threads and Golden Needles
The Stone Poneys - Different Drum
The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
The Surfaris - Wipeout (instrumental)
The Temptations - My Girl
The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again
The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
The Volumes - I Love You
THEM – Gloria (This song, written by Van Morrison and recorded by his group at the time, THEM, was on the ‘DO NOT PLAY LIST’ of many radio stations when it was released in 1964 because of its sexual innuendo!. However, many people who have never heard this song and listen to it today would simply say, “You’re kidding, right!?” And I would say, “No, I’m not!.” The Shadows of Knight covered the song but omitted the two short lines of lyrics that caused the original ruckus!. The SOK version was more popular as it received wider play but the original version by THEM is, by far, the better of the two!. A great song! It ranks #69 (innuendo again:):)!?!?!?) in the book, ‘The Heart of Rock and Soul, The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made!.’
If you want to see a much longer list of mostly 50s & 60s oldies, you may go a previous answer of mine that is about 4/5 down the page at:
http://answers!.yahoo!.com/question/index;!.!.!.
For DOO-WOP groups exclusively, go to another previous answer of mine:
http://answers!.yahoo!.com/question/index;!.!.!.
also, check out the following link for oldies by year (and lyrics for many) from 1930 to 1999 and how they fared on the Billboard Charts!. Any songs that peaked on the charts from #1 to #5 position (denoted to the right of the song) for any particular year may be worth listening to on YouTube and then downloading if you like it!.
http://www!.ntl!.matrix!.com!.br/pfilho/html!.!.!.
You may also want to get a copy of the Dave Marsh’s 1989 earlier referenced book, ‘The Heart of Rock and Soul, The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made!.’Www@Enter-QA@Com
If you like love ballads, download some songs from the Platters, the greatest ballad group ever!. Just my opinion but I think there are very few people who know the Platters and their great songs would disagree with me!.
The greatest of the great Platter songs:
The Platters - Only You (And You Alone)
The Platters - I'm Sorry
The Platters – The Great Pretender
The Platters - My Prayer
The Platters - On My Word Of Honor
The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
The Platters - Twilight Time
The Platters - You'll Never, Never Know
If you like ballads that are a little bit up tempo, you can’t get much better than the Drifters:
The Drifters - Dance With Me
The Drifters - (If You Cry) True Love, True Love
The Drifters - This Magic Moment
The Drifters - There Goes My Baby
The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me
The Drifters - Some Kind Of Wonderful
The Drifters - Under The Boardwalk
The Drifters - Up On The Roof
The girl groups of this era were also good: Martha and the Vandellas, The Shirelles, The Crystals, The Chiffons, The Ronettes, The Marvelettes, The Supremes and the Angels!.
Some other of my personal favorite oldies from this era (but YMMV):
Ben E!. King - Stand By Me
Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want)
Bobby 'The Polish Prince' Vinton - Please Love Me Forever
Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode
Chuck Berry – Almost Grown
Danny & The Juniors - At The Hop
Del Shannon - Runaway
Dion - Donna The Prima Donna
Dion - Love Came To Me
Dion - Runaround Sue
Dion & The Belmonts - Where Or When
Dionne Warwick - Anyone Who Had A Heart
Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Big Girls Don't Cry
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Dawn (Go Away)
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Rag Doll
Freddy 'Boom Boom' Cannon - Tallahassee Lassie
Freddy 'Boom-Boom' Cannon - Palisades Park
Gene Pitney - Half Heaven Half Heartache
Gene Pitney - It Hurts To Be In Love
Gene Pitney - Only Love Can Break A Heart
Gene Pitney - If I Didn’t Have a Dime (to Play the Jukebox)
Gene Pitney – Every Breath I Take
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - If You Don't Know Me by Now
Harpers Bizarre - The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
J!. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers - Last Kiss
Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher
Jay & The Americans - Cara Mia
Jimmy Jones - Handy Man
Jimmy Jone – Good Timin’
Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy (for the Rest of Your Life, Never Make a Pretty Woman Your Wife)
Johnny Rivers - Memphis
Lee Andrews & The Hearts - Long Lonely Nights
Lee Andrews & The Hearts - Teardrops
Left Banke - Walk Away Renee
Lenny Welch - Ebb Tide
Lesley Gore - It's My Party
Lesley Gore - Judy's Turn To Cry
Little Eva - The Loco-Motion
Little Peggy March - Hello Heartache, Goodbye Love
Little Peggy March - I Will Follow Him
Lloyd Price - Personality
Lou Christie - Rhapsody In The Rain
Lou Christie - The Gypsy Cried
Lou Christie - Two Faces Have I
Martha & The Vandellas - Heat Wave
Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Mary Wells - My Guy
Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs - Stay
Nathaniel Mayer & The Fabulous Twilights - Village Of Love
Neil Diamond - Solitary Man
Neil Sedaka – Calendar Girl
Neil Sedaka - Oh! Carol
Neil Sedaka - Stairway To Heaven
Nino Tempo & April Stevens - Deep Purple
Paul Revere & The Raiders - Kicks
Peter & Gordon - I Go To Pieces
Phil Phillips & The Twilights - Sea Of Love (the original version)
Question Mark & The Mysterians - 96 Tears
Ral Donner - She's Everything (I Wanted You To Be)
Randy & The Rainbows - Denise
Ricky Nelson - Poor Little Fool
Roy Head & The Traits - Treat Her Right
Roy Orbison - Crying
Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
Ruby & The Romantics - Our Day Will Come
Sam Cooke - Chain Gang
Sam Cooke - Cupid
Sam The Sham & The Pharohs - Wooly Bully
Santo & Johnny - Sleepwalk
Seals and Crofts - Summer Breeze
Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard
Skeeter Davis - The End Of The World
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints
Thurston Harris - Little Bitty Pretty One
Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony Mony
The Angels - My Boyfriend's Back
The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun
The Association - Cherish
The Beach Boys - 409
The Beach Boys – Surfin’ Safari
The Beau Brummels - Just a Little
The Cadillacs - Speedo
The Capris - There's A Moon Out Tonight
The Cascades - Rhythm of the Rain
The Chantels - Maybe
The Charts - Deserie
The Chiffons - A Love So Fine
The Chiffons - He's So Fine
The Chiffons - One Fine Day
The Chimes - Once in a While
The Cleftones - Heart and Soul
The Clovers - Love Potion No!.9
The Contours - Do You Love Me
The Crests - The Angels Listened In
The Crests - Trouble In Paradise
The Critters - Mr!. Dieingly Sad
The Critters - Younger Girl
The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron
The Dell-Vikings - Whispering Bells
The Diamonds - Little Darlin' (one of my all time favs)
The Earls - Remember Then
The Earls - Never
The Edsels - Rama Lama Ding Dong
The Elegants - Little Star
The Elgins - Heaven Must Have Sent You (one of the better, yet lesser known MOTOWN songs by one of its lesser known groups)
The Essex - Easier Said Than Done
The Everly Brothers - Bird Dog
The Exciters - Tell Him
The Five Satins - (I Remember) In the Still of the Night
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You
The Flamingos - Nobody Loves Me Like You Do
The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
The Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)
The Grass Roots - Live For Today
The Heartbeats - A Thousand Miles Away
The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)
The Isley Brothers – SHOUT!
The Jarmels - A Little Bit of Soap
The Kalin Twins - When
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City
The Mama's & The Papa's - California Dreamin'
The Mama's & The Papa's - Monday Monday
The Marcels - Blue Moon
The Marcels - Heartaches
The Marvelettes - Beechwood 4-5789
The Marvelettes - Please Mr!. Postman
The Mello-Kings - Tonite, Tonite
The Murmaids - Popsicles & Icicles
The Mystics - Hushabye
The O'Jays - Love Train
The Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me
The Penguins - Earth Angel
The Rays - Silhouettes
The Regents - Barbara Ann (the original)
The Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
The Rivieras - California Sun
The Rocky Fellers - Killer Joe
The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
The Ronettes - Be My Baby
The Royal Teens - Believe Me
The Royal Teens - Short Shorts
The Safaris - Image of a Girl
The Sandpipers - Come Saturday Morning
The Sandpipers - Guantanamera
The Schoolboys - Please Say You Want Me
The Searchers - Needles And Pins
The Searchers - Someday We're Gonna Love Again
The Seeds – Pushin’ Too Hard
The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack
The Shields - You Cheated
The Shirelles - (You Say!.!.!.)Tonight's The Night
The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
The Silhouettes - Get A Job
The Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About a Mover
The Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino
The Skyliners - Since I Don't Have You
The Skyliners - This I Swear
The Spaniels - Goodnite Sweetheart, Goodnite
The Springfields - Silver Threads and Golden Needles
The Stone Poneys - Different Drum
The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
The Surfaris - Wipeout (instrumental)
The Temptations - My Girl
The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again
The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
The Volumes - I Love You
THEM – Gloria (This song, written by Van Morrison and recorded by his group at the time, THEM, was on the ‘DO NOT PLAY LIST’ of many radio stations when it was released in 1964 because of its sexual innuendo!. However, many people who have never heard this song and listen to it today would simply say, “You’re kidding, right!?” And I would say, “No, I’m not!.” The Shadows of Knight covered the song but omitted the two short lines of lyrics that caused the original ruckus!. The SOK version was more popular as it received wider play but the original version by THEM is, by far, the better of the two!. A great song! It ranks #69 (innuendo again:):)!?!?!?) in the book, ‘The Heart of Rock and Soul, The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made!.’
If you want to see a much longer list of mostly 50s & 60s oldies, you may go a previous answer of mine that is about 4/5 down the page at:
http://answers!.yahoo!.com/question/index;!.!.!.
For DOO-WOP groups exclusively, go to another previous answer of mine:
http://answers!.yahoo!.com/question/index;!.!.!.
also, check out the following link for oldies by year (and lyrics for many) from 1930 to 1999 and how they fared on the Billboard Charts!. Any songs that peaked on the charts from #1 to #5 position (denoted to the right of the song) for any particular year may be worth listening to on YouTube and then downloading if you like it!.
http://www!.ntl!.matrix!.com!.br/pfilho/html!.!.!.
You may also want to get a copy of the Dave Marsh’s 1989 earlier referenced book, ‘The Heart of Rock and Soul, The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made!.’Www@Enter-QA@Com
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SWEET HITCH-HIKER - C!.C!.R!.
HEY JOE - the byrds
RING DANG DO - sam the sham & the pharaohs
HUNGRY - paul revere & the raiders
TUMBLING DICE - rolling stones
HEY YOU - B!.T!.O!.
STEPPING STONE - the monkees
I CAN'T EXPLAIN - the who
TIRED OF WAITING - the kinks
DIRTY WATER - the standells
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