Here are the top-selling songs of the 1960s by year, according to Billboard's Year-End charts. Release date: September 1959 "Theme from A Summer Place" was composed by Max Steiner for the 1959 ...

In the 1960s, rock and roll was just coming into form. Thanks to acts like Bob Dylan and the many that came over from across ...

Lou Christie was a top pop act of the mid to late 1960s, mainly due to his unique falsetto. He was the voice behind songs such as "The Gypsy Cried," "I'm Gonna Make You Mine," and "Lightnin' Strikes." ...

Bob Dylan changed music in the 1960s when he took popular songs from folk into the electric age, embracing rock and roll and, ...

Lou Reed might have been instrumental to the birth of punk, but his musical influences all stem from a variety of different places.

Disco music originated in the 1960s at underground venues popular with LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx Americans. But it wasn't ...

French singer France Gall, who rose to pop fame in the 1960s, has died at the age of ... one of the biggest figures in French popular music - that helped catapult her to fame and make her a ...

During an incredible run of success spanning the 1960s, Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers released six Billboard Top 10 singles, two No. 1 albums and won five Grammys. They also brought early ...

Pic: Reuters During a run of success in the 1960s, Peter, Paul and Mary - Yarrow ... Puff The Magic Dragon, their most famous song, was written by Yarrow based on a poem by Leonard Lipton.