About Music of the Sixties: Things You Need To Know In 1960, New Orleans was the place to be apparently. Hits included Johnny Horton’s The Battle of New Orleans, Freddy Cannon’s Way Down Yonder In New Orleans, Gary US Bond’s New Orleans and Walking To New Orleans by Fats Domino scored in Billboard’s charts. Chubby… Read More
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The 1990s Complete – Must-Have Dance Tracks Nineties’ Reggaeton Dance Hits 1. Murder She Wrote – Chaka Demus & Pilers 2. Action – Terror Fabulous with Nadine Sutherland 3. Boombastic – Shaggy 4. Mr. Loverman – Shabba Ranks 5. Fat Boy – Max-A-Million 6. Girlstown – Super Cat 7. Slow and Sexy – Shabba Ranks… Read More
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
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
Pre-Disco Dance Hits 1. Lady Marmalade – LaBelle 2. Got To Give It Up – Marvin Gaye 3. Dance To The Music – Sly and the Family Stone (1968) 4. Build Me Up Buttercup – The Foundations 5. ABC – Jackson Five 6. Proud Mary – Ike and Tina Turner 7. More Today Than Yesterday… 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 Disco Dance Hits 1. Y.M.C.A. – Village People 2. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor 3. Brick House – Commodores 4. Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough – Michael Jackson 5. It’s Raining Men – The Weather Girls 6. Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry 7. Super Freak – Rick James 8.… 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
2000s Pop Dance Hits 1. I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas 2. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) – Beyonce 3. Forget You – Cee Lo Green 4. California Gurls – Katy Perry Featuring Snoop Dogg 5. Lady Marmalade – Christina Aguilera, Lil Kim, Mya and Pink 6. The Cha Cha Slide –… Read More
Hip Hop Old School Music 1970s-early 1990s Old School DJ Kool Herc is credited with inventing Hip Hop at a block party in 1974, although there were others playing too. All it took was two of the same vinyl record and some skill at cutting between them. That summer, Lovebug Starski started this style of… Read More
80s Dance Hits 1. Funkytown – Lipps Inc. 2. Electric Boogie – Marcia Griffiths 3. Let’s Groove – Earth Wind and Fire 4. Push It – Salt N Pepa 5. Superfreak – Rick James 6. Celebration – Kool and the Gang 7. It’s Raining Men – The Weather Girls 8. Footloose – Kenny Loggins 9.… 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
Must-have Classic Hip Hop Party Hits 2000s Decade Hip Hop/Rap Hits 1. Yeah! – Usher 2. Get Low – Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz Featuring Ying Yang Twins 3. Lose Yourself – Eminem 4. Crank Dat – Soulja Boy 5. Gold Digger – Kanye West with Jamie Foxx 6. Hot In Herre –… 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
