E-mail Sixties City
January 12th 2025
Pirate Sounds - fantastic Sixties
sounds from offshore pirate radio stations,
particularly Swinging Radio England.
January 24th 2025
The Market Place - I get lots of letters
asking where various Sixties items
can be bought. There is now a page of links to online suppliers of original
and retro Sixties items.
Currently working on a listing for the Top20 pop charts for every week
during
the Sixties. If you want to know what was in the charts on your birthday
or
on an anniversary this will give you the chance to check it out. It's
going to
take a while though - I expect to be able to upload a new year every 2
or 3
weeks as well as small updates to other areas of the site.
February 23rd 2025
Have to admit I've fallen behind with the Top
20. 1960 has now been uploaded.
Also, a complete new front page, menu
and search system which I hope will
be useful to you. Loads of small updates have been done as well. Another
new page is the 'marketplace' which
is a resource for you to be able to find
Sixties items that you often e-mail me about. I will also be adding a
web
resources section to this so that you can take advantage of the same services
which have provided so well for me over the years.
March 3rd 2025
Some minor corrections, new links and additional images in the 'pop' movies
section
March 8th 2025
Top 20 weekly charts for 1961 uploaded
and available
March 15th 2025
Top 20 weekly charts for 1962 uploaded
and available plus minor mods to TV Pop pages
March 22nd 2025
Top 20 weekly charts for 1963 uploaded
and available plus various new sounds and links
March 30th 2025
Top 20 weekly charts for 1964 uploaded
plus enhancements to 1960-63 pages
May 1st 2025
The site has enjoyed highly
increased popularity recently which has had the effect
of causing bandwidth problems. In order to try and reduce these, many
files have
been moved to new locations. If you have visited recently and have problems
with
viewing some pages, please click on the refresh icon on your explorer
toolbar.
This should reload the page with the latest links. I have also had to
remove the
automatic play on the midi files from the pages for the same reason, but
I will be
making these available again for you to listen to separately in the near
future.
June 9th/16th 2025
We've had a few hardware problems over recent
weeks but, having thrown a lot of
money at it, we're now updating and adding again. Next main items will
be completion
of the weekly Charts and new and regularly updated quizzes as a lot of
you have requested.
I've added a lot of Amazon links to the pages in the hope of raising a
bit of capital to
support the cost of keeping the site up - these are mostly linked to relevant
Sixties items of
interest but you can also see their whole product range from any area.
New links and
some corrections were made on the 16th June
June 27th 2025
Many pages redesigned and reloaded with additional
links, repairs and improved
access. First new quiz completed -
more will be appearing very soon,
followed by completion of weekly chart pages. New Mod dances added to
listing.
June
28th 2025
Three new quizzes added -
Backing Groups
- sooner than I thought!
July
6th 2025
Top
20 weekly charts for 1965 uploaded
July
13th 2025
Top
20 weekly charts for 1966 uploaded
August
5th 2025
Large
number of dances added to the 'Dance' page -
thanks to Denver
August
10th 2025
A
number of new links and images added in various categories
August
22nd 2025
Top
20 weekly charts for 1967 uploaded plus
partial data for 68 and 69
August
25th 2025
Top
20 weekly charts for 1968
uploaded
and some data errors corrected on 60 - 67
August
29th 2025
Top
20 weekly charts for 1969
uploaded
Well, it's taken me nine
months of typing, but the pages
are now all uploaded
with some data and alignment errors corrected for other years!
September
6th 2025
Additions
to Trivia pages and Pop TV, plus minor corrections to 1967
weekly charts
September 16th 2025
Redesigns for all the 'Events' pages
and additional items of information added plus
minor modifications and links to other pages
October 18th
2025
The Soviet Manned Space Program and Soviet Cosmonauts
New page with details of the 60s Soviet launches and members of the Cosmonaut
training selection teams.
October
28th 2025
Instructions for 'Bend It!' added to Dance Crazes
and complete remodel of Links Pages
for easier viewing,
with additional new links.
November 2025
Note: There may be some delay in the next planned
updates due to personal reasons.
Currently working on The Sixties Drugs Scene and updates/additions to
Fashion and Culture.
December 7th
2025
Dozens of new dance crazes listed
January 6th
2025 - Happy New Year to you all!
Instructions and pictures uploaded for 5 new dance crazes. New links added
also.
January to April - Site Relocation
April 27th 2025 - Back Online
May 10th 2025
Rebuild of menu system and repairs to page links
June 3rd 2025
Rebuild of directory system and more repairs to page links.
More information will appear here when major updates
are performed or new sections are
added / completed. Smaller updates will still be ongoing on a regular
and frequent basis.
I do try to answer
all e-mail and questions - thanks for sending them, and for your patience
in waiting for a reply. Keep them coming!
Please don't link directly to individual images on this site. They change
occasionally and you will find yourself with dead links. If you want to
use any of them, feel free, but please read my notes regarding copyright
before using them on your own pages.
If you have a relevant site that you think I might like to put a link
to please let me know by e-mail, I'd
like to see it. Any aspect of the Sixties is of interest, no matter how
small.
If you care to put a link to my site on your pages, huge thanks, but please link to the main title page
rather than individual sections. It would also be nice if you would e-mail
me to let me know.
The link address is now:
http://sixtiescity.com/index.htm
Link Logos and Images
Here are some link logos for the site if you want to use them. If you
prefer the alternative logos appearing on any of the pages, please feel
free to 'lift' and use them instead. If you need to resize them for use
on your pages and can't achieve decent quality, please ask me for another
version.
Transparent
gif - best with light background
Transparent gif - best with light background
Transparent gif - best with dark background
Solid colour
gif - nicer outer edges
Viewing Resolution
Sixties City pages are best
viewed at 800 x 600 in IE5+ due to the nature of the page construction.
Several different editors were involved, not all with cross-browser capability.
At the moment, 800
resolution is very common so I will continue to construct mainly for that
format but I am slowly changing
the pages for more universal viewing and a lot of the images appear even
better at 1200 resolution.
Some images are compressed jpeg or gif with the consequent loss of quality.
More recent jpeg images
have been loaded in uncompressed format which provides better quality
screen reproduction but, unfortunately, take a little longer to load
- c'est la vie - doin' the best I can!
Content Accuracy and Advertising Banners
Amazon
links are provided throughout the site. If you purchase items from Amazon
through these links I receive a small percentage of the sale which helps
to pay for the bandwidth needed to keep this site operational. Some sixties-related
items available from Amazon are featured in various places on the site
but, of course, you also have fuul access to current chart items, videos,
books and many other terrific items which Amazon has to offer. If you
use Amazon regularly, please use the link-through from this site when
you buy - then we both get a good deal!
The
web service advertising banners appearing on Sixties City are provided
by the companies whose services I use in the presentation of this site.
Their services are provided to me free of charge and it is right that
I should promote their services in return. I receive no income or profit
for their promotion, but I have experienced nothing but excellent service
from all of them and highly recommend them to you if you are starting,
or want to improve, your own web pages or site. They are well worth considering.
Internet Hosting Services, Domain Names and Free
Webspace are provided by Velnet
This site has taken me over
five years to construct and a lot of that time has been spent on research.
I've done my best to make sure the facts are correct but I can't accept
any responsibility for consequences due to errors that might exist in
any of the information appearing on these pages.
If you do notice any checkable inaccuracies I would appreciate it if you
would let me know.
Copyrights
I retain the copyright for ALL ORIGINAL text and graphics on these pages. If you want to reproduce any of it by whatever means, please ask. I'll probably say yes - but it would be nice to know where it is going!
I will either remove them or be only too pleased to give credit to the copyright owner if that is acceptable.
The same offer applies to sound files, particularly midi file authors, with whose work I am totally impressed. Registered names and logos also remain the copyright of the particular owners. Again, I only reproduce them for interest purposes and the same condition applies.
To anyone who does hold copyrights on any of these and lets them stay on here, a very big THANK YOU!
I would also like to pay tribute to the authors of the many books and web sites I have looked at while putting this together as I can now appreciate, even if only to a small extent, the amount of work involved.
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