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Oldies Connection - Rock 'n' Roll Artists of the '50s, '60s and '70s

Welcome to Oldies Connection

(This site created and lovingly maintained by Laura Pinto)
 
 
Welcome to Oldies Connection, your one-stop website to catch up with all your favorite actively touring artists from the '50s, '60s, and '70s.
 
 
Oldies Connection covers the light pop music of the '50s, '60s and '70s -- not the culture, not the politics, not TV or movies -- just rock and rollOldies Connection is devoted mainly to rock, pop, and doo-wop ... and is especially focused on artists from the '50's through '70s who are still touring and making personal appearances, like Andy Kim, Paul McCartney, Mark Lindsay, Lou Christie, and Neil SedakaCheck out the comprehensive Artists & Music section for thousands of links for hundreds of artists from the Fifties and Sixties and Seventies!
 
 
 

Happy Together Tour 2012

Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band, July 2012

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NEW (Sept. 2017): Check out the new Oldies Connection Group on Facebook! If you have a Facebook account, feel free to join and post!
 
Oldies Connection is on Twitter! Check it out by clicking on the link, or via the widget below.
 
And feel free to continue following my personal Twitter page as well ... lots of fun stuff related to the '50s, '60s and '70s!

>>>The Artists of Oldies Connection<<<
Web links for almost 1,000 (!) artists and groups from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s!

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Laura's Little Shop of Oldies, where you can check out music by and books about our favorite artists from the '50s, '60s and '70s!

♪♫♪PHOTOS♪♫♪ Links to my online photo albums of concert shots

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Book Recommendations:

Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? - Vol. I

Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? -- Vol. 2

Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? - Vol. 3

Check out Butlins Festival of the '60s Review by Wayne Adderley!

Fantastic tribute to the late Bob Crewe by Ronnie Allen, who's put together a four-part radio show exclusively on the Jersey Girls Sing website! Check it out—more than three dozen singers, songwriters, deejays and producers were interviewed for this awesome labor of love.

Recent passings: 

David Cassidy passed away on November 21, 2017, at the age of 67. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for David Cassidy on Legacy.com.
David Bruce Cassidy
April 12, 1950 - November 21, 2017

Fats Domino passed away on October 24, 2017, at the age of 89. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Fats Domino on Legacy.com.
Antoine Dominique Domino, Jr.
February 26, 1928 - October 24, 2017

 Jimmy Beaumont (Skyliners) passed away on October 7, 2017, at the age of 76. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Jimmy Beaumont on Legacy.com.
James Beaumont
October 21, 1940 - October 7, 2017

Tom Petty passed away on October 2, 2017, at the age of 66. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Tom Petty on Legacy.com.
Thomas Earl Petty
October 20, 1950 - October 2, 2017

Glen Campbell passed away on August 8, 2017, at the age of 81. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Glen Campbell on Legacy.com.
Glen Travis Campbell
April 22, 1936 - August 8, 2017

Gary DeCarlo (Steam) passed away on June 28, 2017, at the age of 75. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Gary DeCarlo on Legacy.com.
Gary DeCarlo
June 5, 1942 - June 28, 2017

Gregg Allman passed away on May 27, 2017, at the age of 69. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Gregg Allman on Legacy.com.
Gregory LeNoir Allman
December 8, 1947 - May 27, 2017

Cuba Gooding, Sr. (The Main Ingredient) passed away on April 20, 2017, at the age of 72. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Cuba Gooding, Sr. on Legacy.com.
Cuba Gooding, Sr.
April 27, 1944 - April 20, 2017

John "J" Geils (J. Geils Band) passed away on April 11, 2017, at the age of 71. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for J. Geils on Legacy.com.
John Warren Geils, Jr.
February 20, 1946 - April 11, 2017

Chuck Berry passed away on March 18, 2017, at the age of 90. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Chuck Berry on Legacy.com.
Charles Edward Anderson Berry
October 18, 1926 - March 18, 2017

Al Jarreau passed away on February 12, 2017, at the age of 76. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Al Jarreau on Legacy.com.
Alwin Lopez Jarreau
March 12, 1940 - February 12, 2017

Sonny Geraci of The Outsiders and Climax passed away on February 5, 2017, at the age of 70. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Sonny Geraci on Legacy.com.
Emmett Peter Geraci
November 22, 1946 - February 5, 2017

Richie Ingui of the Soul Survivors passed away on January 13, 2017, at the age of 69. R.I.P.
Richie Ingui
November 15, 1947 - January 13, 2017

Please visit the In Memoriam section of this site for a comprehensive list of passings (including links to obits/guestbooks on Legacy.com, where applicable).
 

 
For other news, please see "Page Two" of Oldies Connection, News and Releases.
 

Check out The Artists of Oldies Connection—a comprehensive section featuring thousands of links to official sites and social network pages for hundreds of your favorite music artists from the '50s, '60s and '70s! It's truly the "connection" part of Oldies Connection; please check it out.
Cool Reads - book recommendations for lovers of oldies music.
Music, Music, and More Music! - sorted by category. Just click on the links to browse the selections!
This site is continually being expanded. Please bookmark www.oldiesconnection.com and check back often!

A big THANK-YOU to Artie Wayne for spotlighting Oldies Connection on his blog, Artie Wayne on the Web!

Weekly blog post - Arrivals & Departures.  Birthdays and passings for the week in (1950s, 1960s and 1970s) music history.

 

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Ronnie Allen and the Jersey Girls Sing website have launched an exceptional page called Gone But Not Forgotten (a name that's shared with a page on Oldies Connection!), a comprehensive list of musicians and other entertainers who have passed away since 2008. Gone But Not Forgotten includes links to info pages for each person listed, and names can be sorted alphabetically as well as chronologically. Do stop by and take a look at it!

 
Take a look at Ronnie Allen's Video Pages on the Jersey Girls Sing website! Ronnie has just added a cool new feature that lets you, the viewer, select YouTube videos from an alphabetized list (or you can allow them to be selected for you randomly), then view all of them on a single page. For some wonderful performance videos from the '50s and '60s, check out Ronnie's Video Pages! Who knows, you just might find a treasure you didn't know existed.

Ronnie Allen has archived his radio shows on the Jersey Girls Sing website.  You can hear the Nutty But Nice shows in their entirety by clicking on the link.

Many thanks to Artie Wayne for including Oldies Connection on his list of Best Oldies and New Music Websites of 2009!
 

Welcome to Oldies Connection

SPOTLIGHT SITES:
 
Jersey Girls Sing - Denise Ferri (The Delicates) and Bernadette Carroll ("Party Girl")
Musicradio WABC - Awesome tribute site to 77 WABC (New York City), featuring a wealth of jingles and airchecks from the stations's Top Forty era (1961-1982)
Laura's Oldies Sites - Links to all the oldies-related sites and communities I own

Oldies deejay Ronnie Allen has conducted interviews with a bevy of noted 50s and 60s recording artists.  All of Ronnie's shows are permanently archived on the Jersey Girls Sing! website.  To check 'em out, please click on the link for Ronnie's Radio Page.  (By the way, if you listen to the debut show from 07 Aug 2007, as well as the Ron Dante interview from 03 Oct 2007, you'll hear a couple of cameo appearances by yours truly!)

 
Book recommendations:
 
Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? -- Volume 1.  First in a series, this book by Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March catches up with 26 artists from seven 1950s/1960s acts.  It's chock full of quotes, facts, trivia, and lots of surprises!  Click on the link above to read more about it. (P.S. Volumes 2 and 3 of the series is now available as well! Details and link are on the Volume 1 page.)
 
Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era.  Read all about this fantastic book by Ken Emerson!  Click on the book title to check out the dedicated page on this site, which includes commentary by the author plus links to editorial reviews and to a December 2005 on-air interview with Ken.

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