ROCKVILLE, Md. -- One of the surest ways to feel older is to listen to the radio and hear songs from your childhood -- or, even worse, your adulthood -- described as "oldies." If over the years it ...

For Jack Komorowski, 64, oldies means the music of the 1940s and 1950s. Komorowski, an Absecon resident, grew up listening to the 1940s music his parents played. He spent time during the 1950s and ...

On Saturday, the Mansfield Senior Center Association transported partygoers back to the 50s with their “Oldies But Goodies Dance.” The vintage 50s theme of the dance had people dancing all night long ...

After the Beatles arrived on the scene, Frankie Avalon, whose hit “Venus” was the last No. 1 song of the 1950s, watched sadly as fans ditched syrupy pop for rock ‘n’ roll. “I figured that was over,” ...

I’ve been getting a lot of letters and emails lately regarding KRTH (101.1 FM) and its continued addition of even newer songs at the expense of even more (what some would call) oldies, especially ...

Within the Pomona Swap Meet’s sea of shiny Corvettes and 1950s Cadillacs, a storage truck seems out of place. In thick block letters, it reads Thump Records and is open for vending. As racks of ...

If you play it, they will come. For those who doubt the viability of AM radio, I have received more mail on the new LA Oldies format of K-SURF (1260 AM) than almost any other topic over the past few ...

Radio DJ Art Laboe, who interviewed Elvis for radio in the 1950s before he helped make Black music and Latino youths lifelong friends, has died. He was 97. Laboe, who hosted a show on Los Angeles ...

Radio DJ Art Laboe, who interviewed Elvis for radio in the 1950s before he helped make Black music and Latino youths lifelong friends, has died. He was 97. Laboe, who hosted a show on Los Angeles ...