Even though only a handful of viewers actually saw MTV’s technologically challenged first moments on August 1, 1981, that date has been etched into history as the birth of the music video. But by then ...

While these 1970s songs are amazing, they were best-suited for their era, and would have likely flopped if released today.

Ivory Joe wrote and released “Empty Arms” in 1957. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart. More than a decade later, country singer Sonny James took the song to No. 1 in the early 1970s. James ...

Stacker looked at the #1 rock songs of the 1970s using the Billboard Hot 100 and MusicBrainz, an open music encyclopedia via the University of Waterloo. - TV Times/Future Publishing via Getty Images ...

Even though only a handful of viewers actually saw MTV’s technologically challenged first moments on August 1, 1981, that date has been etched into history as the birth of the music video. But by then ...