Your Complete 2000s Music Checklist 2000s Bubblegum Pop Hits 1. Firework – Katy Perry (Capitol) 2. Baby – Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris 3. Party In The USA – Miley Cyrus 4. You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift 5. One Time – Justin Bieber 6. Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani and Akon 7. Numa Numa… Read More
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Your Complete 1990s Pop Music Checklist Selected Nineties’ Bubblegum Pop Hits 1. MMM Bop – Hanson 2. …Baby One More Time – Britney Spears 3. Wannabe – Spice Girls 4. As Long As You Love Me – Backstreet Boys 5. Step By Step – New Kids On The Block 6. I Want You Back –… Read More
Top 100 Doo-Wop Hits About Doo-Wop Songs: The PCM Doo Wop list is based first and foremost, on the most well-known and recognized “oldies” Doo Wop songs, the songs that had the biggest influence on the genre, and songs that best represented Doo-Wop of the era. Doo Wop Song List 1. Up On The Roof… Read More
About Music of the 70s: Things You Need To Know In 1976, The Beatles reached # 7 on the charts with Got To Get You Into My Life. A pretty cool achievement for a band that had broken up 6 years earlier. It was a single from the Rock and Roll Music compilation album. 1978… Read More
Top 100 Oldies 1964-ish through 1968-ish 1. Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond 2. Respect – Aretha Franklin 3. I’m a Believer – The Monkees 4. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 5. I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honeybunch) – Four Tops 6. Hang On Sloopy – The McCoys 7.… Read More
About Music of the Fifties… Things You Need To Know Rock and Roll, Jazz and Doo Wop evolved from the Blues, which came from the African-American community in the decades after slavery with gospel, spirituals, work songs, and chants which, with the addition of some instruments, became Rhythm and Blues. It’s a much longer story… Read More
Top 100 Moldie Oldies 1955-1958 Moldy Oldies Pre-Beatles, Pre-Motown Oldies Like all Pop Culture Madness music charts, this list is a reflection of the most requested songs in our network of disc-jockeys and YOUR e-mailed suggestions. This list is of songs that were popular before the Beatles, and some songs after that continued in that… Read More
Oldies: Pre-Beatles The post-50s-pre-Beatles brought an amazing and often under-estimated, even forgotten, selection of quality popular music. This Era of Pop Music brought us the Girl Groups, Phil Spectre and the post-do-wop sound of rock and roll. After this era, the Beatles changed music again. Oldies – 1959-1963/4 The Top Instrumentals 1959-1963/4 1. Yakety Sax… Read More
About Music of the 80s: Things You Need To Know Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ was released in 1981. The song is arguably the most well-known of the entire rock era. It only reached # 9 on the Billboard charts, making it the #65 biggest pop song of the year. The 120 BPM song breaks several… Read More
December History, Trivia, and Fun Facts About December December was originally the 10th month in the Roman calendar. The period of January and February didn’t really count as months, and the Roman calendar was based on a 304 day year, based on the approximate lunar month of 29 1/2 days. The inventor of the 304-day… Read More
November 30 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 30 History Highlights 1803 – In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transferred the Louisiana Territory to France. Just a few weeks later, France transferred the same land to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase 1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent,… Read More
November 29 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 29 History Highlights 1777 – San Jose, California, was founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José JoaquÃn Moraga. 1890 – The First Army/Navy football game tool place. Navy won 24-0. 1935 – Physicist Erwin Schrödinger published his famous thought experiment ‘Schrödinger’s cat’, a paradox… Read More
November 28 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 28 History Highlights 1895 – The first automobile race in The United States took place, over 54 miles, from Jackson Park in Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea won in about 10 hours. 1942 – Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire, Boston Massachusettes. Nearly 500 people were killed in… Read More
November 27 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 27 History Highlights 1095 – Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont. The first Eddystone Lighthouse was destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703. 1896 – Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss was first performed. 1927 – The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day… Read More
Thanksgiving History, Trivia, and Fun Facts Thanksgiving History Highlights In 1863, Abraham Lincoln, declared the fourth Thursday of November to be a National Day of Thanksgiving. The fourth Thursday in November was officially sanctioned by Congress as a legal holiday in 1941, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Unlike today’s feast consisting of turkey, stuffing, sweet… Read More
November 26 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 26 History Highlights 1798 – A national Thanksgiving Day was observed in the United States, as proclaimed by President George Washington, at the request of Congress. 1863 – United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the… Read More
November 25 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 25 History Highlights 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops left New York City, three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris. 1952 – Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, now the longest continuously-running play in… Read More
November 24 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 24 History Highlights Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. 1877 – Black Beauty by Anna Sewell was published. 1963 – Jack Ruby shot and killed President Kennedy’s suspected assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. It was the first live murder shown on American television. 1971… Read More
November 23 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 23 History Highlights 1644 – John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship. November 23, 1886 Birthday (fictional) Clara Oswin Oswald, Doctor Who, TV 1919 – The first broadcast play-by-play of a football game was between Texas A&M and The University of Texas. A&M won, 7-0. 1924… Read More
November 22 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 22 History Highlights 1963 – President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1940 (fictional) The Justice Society met for the first time, DC Comics The Humane Society of the United States was founded on November 22, 1954. November 22,… Read More
November 21 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 21 History Highlights 1800 – The US Congress met in Washington for the first time. November 21, 2004 – Nintendo DS released, Video Game Console North Carolina ratified the United States Constitution and was admitted as the 12th U.S. state in 1789. 1992 – Starting November 21,… Read More
November 20 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 20 History Highlights Chester Gould’s friend, Al Gross invented the walkie-talkie, and that was the inspiration for Dick Tracey’s wrist radio in January 1946. In 1789, New Jersey became the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights. In 1820, An 80-ton sperm whale attacked and… Read More
November 19 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 19 History Highlights November 19, 2006 – Wii& Wii Virtual Console released, Video Game Console The Gettysburg Address was given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1963 1969 – Pele scored his 1,000 goal in soccer. The week before Thanksgiving is ‘Better Conversation Week’ If you were… Read More
November 18 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 18 History Highlights November 18 Birthday (fictional) Mickey Mouse, Disney 1993 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was approved by the US House of Representatives. 1963 – The first push-button telephones went into service. 1978 – Over 900 members of Jim Jones’ cult suicided, and… Read More
November 17 History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 17 History Highlights 1869 – The Suez Canal opened. On November 17, 1968, an NFL game between the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets ended with a Raiders win, 43 to 32. That happened by 7:07 PM. The problem was, NBC has scheduled and RAN the… Read More
November 16th History, Trivia and Fun Facts November 16th History Highlights Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific Ocean, 1805. The National Rifle Association received its charter from New York State, in 1871. 1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States opened. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in… Read More
November 15th History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 15th History Highlights 1791 – The first US Catholic college, Georgetown University, opened. 1926 – The NBC radio network opened (24 stations). November 15, 1955 (fictional) Doc Brown fell and bumped his head, which gave him the idea for the Flux Capacitor, Back to the Future, Film… Read More
November 14th History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 14th History Highlights Female journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completed the trip in 72 days, in 1889. The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) began radio service in the United Kingdom in 1922. Ruby… Read More
November 13th History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 13th History Highlights James Braid saw a demonstration of animal magnetism, which lead to his study of a subject he eventually named hypnotism (1841) In 1927, the Holland Tunnel opened to traffic, being the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. Walt… Read More
November 12th History, Trivia, and Fun Facts November 12th History Highlights William ‘Pudge’ Heffelfinger became the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid ($250) game for the Allegheny Athletic Association, in 1892. 1927 – Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party. 1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager… Read More
