In the 1960s, pop music was just starting to make waves. Back then, as music was becoming more and more of a commercial product, companies realized two things. Young people loved to buy records, and ...

Popular music in the 1960s was a magical thing. The songs were imbued with something fantastic and almost innocent. There was a joy to the sounds, to the industry itself, that doesn’t exist as much ...

Put on a record in 1960 and you’d have heard Chubby Checker trying to convince America to contort itself at parties. Play something from 1969, just nine years later, and you might land on Marvin Gaye ...

The 1960s were a great era for music. Beatlemania took over the world, Chubby Checker inspired a dance craze, and Nancy Sinatra sent girls flocking to buy go-go boots. In 1964, Motown Records—which ...

Between 1959 and 1964, Midtown Manhattan was the nerve center of the American pop music industry. Inside just a few square blocks near Times Square, the so-called “Brill Building Sound” flourished, ...

A 1960s pop song, a must-have soft toy and a global anime hit are among the leaders on YouTube's year-end trends list. Connie Francis' "Pretty Little Baby" was relegated to the B-side of a single when ...