Writers and Editors

For audio-visual presentations and video tributes, here are sites where you can track down music from a certain place or period, and sometimes actually listen to bits of the music. Links below will take you to good sites for finding vintage music and a Web page with links to sources for royalty-free music, images, video clips, and other archives.
• Billboard’s #1 Song on Any Given Date in History (Josh Hosler’s site)
• Dismuke's popular songs from the 1920s and 1930s (audio files)
• Fifties Web (material from 1950s and 1960s
• Free Play Music
• Folk Music of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada and Australia
• Music for funerals, wakes, and memorial services
• Old Forty-Fives.com ((music and other nostalgic items from the 1950s and 1960s, good for bringing back old memories--but NOT public domain; you must clear rights)
• Perfessor Bill Edwards (Ragtime and other old-time piano music, 1910-1919)
• Popular hymns
• Popular Song Recordings from the Victrola (1913-1919), Besmark
• Popular Songs in American History
• The Year in Music (Wikipedia’s Timeline of Musical Events—Google a year date and “in music”).

For a broader range of resources for use in audio-visual productions, check out:
Telling your story a jam-packed page of practical links, including:
• Sources for music, images, video clips and related material, including preservation
• Timelines, archives, family history, genealogical and other historical resources
And click here for delightful examples of video tributes
Please let me know if I've let anything out!