Oldies Music: The Stories Behind the Songs We Loved

Oldies music is more than a playlist. These are the songs that played at school dances, on car radios and in kitchens across America, and every one of them has a story: the lyric written in ten minutes, the B-side nobody believed in, the singer who had one hit and then vanished.

Here you'll find every episode of our music documentaries, sorted the way people remember songs: by mood, by topic and by year. Start with a topic below, or jump straight to the decade you grew up in.