Forgotten Hits Archives

Welcome to the Forgotten Hits Archive Website where you will find many of our most popular features published over the past 25-plus years.

Started in 1999, Forgotten Hits began as an Oldies Music Newsletter where oldies music fans share their musical memories right alongside those of the deejays who help to keep all of this great music alive and many of the artists who created much of this great music in the first place.

It grew from an emailed newsletter to a dedicated web page where we regularly run special features, interviews and artist profiles along with your comments, memories and suggestions ... with damn-near daily postings!

And, now that you've found us, be sure to check back often ...

In fact, why don't you make us part of your daily routine ...

http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/

Start your day ... EVERY day ... with Forgotten Hits.

Got something you'd like to say or share with our readers?

Just send us an email at kk@forgottenhits.com … and then be sure to check back to the FORGOTTEN HITS website often so that you don't miss ANY of our special features or announcements!

http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/

(With nearly twenty years of damn-near daily postings, you'll ALWAYS find something new to read and enjoy! At the very least, I think you'll see that you've got a WHOLE lot of catching up to do!!!)

Thank you for helping to spread the truth.

Al Kooper

Thanks for the best site on the internet for Music.
All the best,
Ron Dante

Forgotten Hits is what Rolling Stone Magazine USED to be ...

Interesting!

Dennis Tufano (The Buckinghams)

I am loving this!
It is like a romp and I had almost forgotten

some of these great songs!!!
The Hermits will be thrilled, too, by your recognition of their work.

I always read the whole schlemozzle

and I am always happier at the end of the read

than when I began it.
Keep the fab emails coming
-- Peter Noone (Herman)

You've been so kind in bringing my music, and the music of

other "legacy artists" to your audience.

Although we've never met, I see you as a friend.
What you are doing with FH is beyond music.

In the "old days", when we listened to our local radio station,

beyond the excitement of the music

was the feeling that our friends were listening as well.

The music literally connected us!

Now, in these days of computer isolation,

you've created a similar "community feeling" among your readers.

When we read the comments & play the clips,

we know they're being shared by like-minded fans.

Once again, we are bonded by our love of the music & the artists.

Alan O'Day

Wow! What A List!!!

What's Great About Your Page, Kent, Is That You Always Do Your Homework!

Thanks!

Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon

Thanks for all you do.

I continue to read each and every Forgotten Hits,

start to finish, faithfully!

Bob Stroud

Rock And Roll Roots

WDRV-FM / Chicago

YOU ARE THEEEE BEST!

SCOTT SHANNON

Kent,

You are THE one who keeps the music alive and relevant!!!

Tommy James

You play the hits I'll never forget!!

Thanks for all your support and keeping the music alive.

John Records Landecker

HOF 2017

I always enjoy reading Forgotten Hits.

Joel Whitburn

WOW ... I love this site.

Keeps me young; jogs the memories;

and it is a great lasting history lesson!

Keep 'em spinning!
Bob Hale
WLS 1960 - 1964!

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There are SO many great dedicated pages to check out ...

Just click on the links below to see what you've been missing!

The Top 3333 Most Essential Classic Rock Songs Of All-Time …

as voted on by YOU, The Forgotten Hits Readers …

https://classicrockessentials.blogspot.com/

Our breakthrough series … and the one that put Forgotten Hits on the map …

WHO PLAYED THE FIRST BEATLES RECORD IN AMERICA?

https://thefirstbeatlesrecordplayedinamerica.blogspot.com/

See ya on the flip side!

Our Top 200 Two-Sided Hits Countdown …

And YOUR All-Time Favorite Forgotten B-Sides

These lists have made perfect fodder for numerous oldies radio specials over the years …

Why not check them out and see if this might be something YOU’D be interested in airing on YOUR station. (And, if so, please let us know so we can post Listen Live links on the website so others can enjoy these features, too!)

https://fhtwosidedhits.blogspot.com/

https://fhfavoriteb-sides.blogspot.com/

Perhaps our most popular series ever …

FIRST 45 Memories

Now three full pages of memories!

You can check them out here:

https://fh1st45s.blogspot.com/

https://fhfirst45s2.blogspot.com/

https://fhfirst45s3.blogspot.com/

And then email us with the details of YOUR FIRST 45!!!

Our Bobby Darin series was picked up by a number of publications and websites …

We were still just an emailed newsletter back then … and I ended up sending it out EIGHT TIMES just to meet the demand!!!

Here it is, in its entirety, now permanently posted as part of The Forgotten Hits Archives:

https://fhbobbydarin.blogspot.com/

Our landmark series revisits the greatest year in music, 1967 …

And it all starts here:

https://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/2016/12/forgotten-hits-salutes-1967.html

Just hit the “Newer Post” button at the bottom of each page and you can relive 1967 exactly as it happened

And if that’s still not enough, be sure to check out our BEST OF THE REST Series …

Other 1967 comments and tidbits that didn’t make the calendar pages

You’ll find all of those pages here: https://forgottenhits1967bonus.blogspot.com/

And, since 1967 was such a HUGE focus for us, here is a special chart recapping the Biggest Songs of the Summer of ’67 …

The Summer of Love …

https://fhsummeroflove.blogspot.com/

Find ALL of summer’s biggest songs on these pages … 1955 – 1980 …

https://fhbiggestsummerhits1955-1980.blogspot.com/

For the definitive list of Summer Favorites, be sure to check out THIS list …

It’s based on the votes of our Forgotten Hits Readers and has been featured on numerous radio stations across the country as a great Summer Weekend Countdown

Your Top 200 All-Time Summer Favorites!

https://fhsummerfavorites.blogspot.com/

Other special features:

https://fhpsychedelic.blogspot.com/

https://fhccr.blogspot.com/

https://fhedsullivan.blogspot.com/

https://fhfavoritetvthemes.blogspot.com/

https://fhgaragebands.blogspot.com/

https://fhtop50instrumentals.blogspot.com/

https://fhonehitwonders.blogspot.com/

https://fhbeatleswhitealbum.blogspot.com/

https://fhlastkiss.blogspot.com/