Thread: Major hits throughout time

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For my Time Warp themed party, I want to mix hits from different eras with our playlist, 20s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. Any suggestions? I have only been around since the 80s. I have done some internet researching but am not sure which ones are truly songs our older guests will know.

I'm not old enough to remember most of these when they were first popular, but I love music, and I'm pretty sure about them being big hits for the time periods:

1920s


http://www.nutsie.com/top100sradio/T...Songs/27973921


Ain't We Got Fun?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbUQhQPJNQY

Me And My Shadow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSdcz...eature=related

Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzlucQqiECk

Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftwTJ...eature=related

Yes, Sir! That's My Baby!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh1eG...eature=related

Ain't She Sweet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xpSe...eature=related

My Blue Heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w-_x...eature=related


1960s

http://www.nutsie.com/top100sradio/T...0Songs/2102427


Are You Lonesome Tonight? - Elvis Presley

Shop Around - The Miracles

Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes

Twist and Shout - The Beatles

You Really Got Me - The Kinks

She's Not There - The Zombies

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones

Dance to the Music - Sly and The Family Stone

Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel

Space Oddity - David Bowie

Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles (they exploded on the scene, leading the "British Invasion" and deserve several places on any 1960s list of hits)

Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones (ditto to the above - major influence in rock music)


1970s

http://www.nutsie.com/top100sradio/T...0Songs/2117977
(really couldn't name them better than this site...)

Few stand outs that go with a party:

Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group

1980s
http://www.nutsie.com/top100sradio/T...%2080s/2162337

FUNKYTOWN! (sorry but just heard this tonight in a store and reminded me of the roller rink... DEFINITELY a big hit from the 80s)

Thriller! Can't believe this is from the 80s.

Nasty - Janet Jackson

Lullaby - The Cure

Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo



1990s


http://www.nutsie.com/top100sradio/T...0Songs/2082087

Intergalatic - The Beastie Boys

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

Vogue - Madonna

Zombie - The Cranberries



Any of the Nutsie.com songs are definitely hits that anyone that was alive during those decades should remember...

Wow, thanks Frankie's Girl. I will have to check those out.