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Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.
Nowadays, the term "oldies" is most commonly applied ironically enough to the era this song was made, rather than what it was singing about (the "oldies" era is generally understood as the rock and roll era and British Invasion era of about 1954–1966, music later than that is often called "classic [genre]" or "old school").
Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV [1] in the early 1980s and the nostalgia behind it [2] is a major driver to the format.
D-TV is a music video television series produced by Charles Braverman [1] and edited by Ted Herrmann. Premiering on May 5, 1984 on the Disney Channel, [2] the series combined both classic and contemporary popular music with various footage of vintage animated shorts and feature films from The Walt Disney Company, created out of the trend of music videos on cable channel MTV, which inspired the ...
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By 1986, the success of the format resulted in oldies accounting for 60–80% of the music played on album rock stations. [16] Although it began as a niche format spun off from AOR, by 2001, classic rock had surpassed album rock in market share nationally.
The longest song on the list is "Walk On By" by Isaac Hayes (12:00) (number 312), and the shortest is "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X (1:53) (number 490). The live version of " Whipping Post " by the Allman Brothers Band (number 410) is specifically referenced in the article and is 22:40, almost twice as long as any other song on the list if counted.
Reflecting the cultures that settled North America, the roots of old-time music are in the traditional musics of the British Isles, [2] Europe, and Africa. African influences are notably found in vocal and instrumental performance styles and dance, as well as the often cited use of the banjo; in some regions, Native American, Spanish, French and German sources are also prominent. [3]