The Web is wonderful for tracking down music from a certain place or period, and sometimes you can actually listen to bits of the music. Here are some good sites for finding vintage music:
• 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
• Live Music Archive
• Music for funerals, wakes, and memorial services (lots of other helpful material on this site, if I do say so myself!)
• 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”).
Why post this on a website for writers and editors? Because sometimes you want a little music in a period video. Check out Clearing rights and finding rightsholders. And tell me of any sites I've failed to miss.
• 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
• Live Music Archive
• Music for funerals, wakes, and memorial services (lots of other helpful material on this site, if I do say so myself!)
• 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”).
Why post this on a website for writers and editors? Because sometimes you want a little music in a period video. Check out Clearing rights and finding rightsholders. And tell me of any sites I've failed to miss.