These hit songs from the 1960s definitely swayed you in certain directions when your music taste was forming as a child.

If you grew up in the 1960s, these nostalgic songs might have had a hand in influencing the kind of person you grew up to be.

The '60s were a pivotal time for music. The decade began with poppy girl groups and crooners and went on to create what we now know as classic rock. And of course, no discussion of the time is ...

The 1960s marked an unquestionable evolution—and revolution—in rock music. The British Invasion made its mark in this decade, with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, who were inspired by ...

1960s music was almost as popular in the 1980s as it was in the 1960s. During the Reagan years, 1960s songs like The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There” and Petula Clark’s “Downtown” came back with a ...

Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody was allegedly inspired by The Beach Boys’ groundbreaking harmonies and studio techniques on Pet ...

LOS ANGELES — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in ...

A new generation of music lovers got turned on to mid-century pop star Connie Francis’ oeuvre in recent months when her 1962 song “Pretty Little Baby” went viral on TikTok. Now, Francis’ death on ...

Connie Francis was a longtime Parkland resident whose 1960 filmed-in-Fort-Lauderdale romp “Where the Boys Are” is to Spring Break what “Jaws” is to shark fishing. Francis was among the first people ...