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Oldies is, and forever shall be, music from before the 80s. There are deep reasons I'm not lucid enough to articulate at the moment, but I'm certain of it.
Oldies is 1940s and 50s only.
Everything else actually has distinct genres that are well defined.
you've got the oldies and classic rock pre-80s. the new crap from the 90s and on, and the greatest decade of music ever sandwiched in between.
You must be really old. Oldies is anything from before 1995, grandpa. That's 30 years if you won't do the math.
To put it in perspective, that's the same time between Joan Jett's I love Rock n Roll, a 1980 hit and Benny Goodman with his big band music Little Girl Don't Cry. Elvis wouldn't become a thing until 1954.
Wait, wasn't it "big girls don't cry"? Or are we thinking of two different songs?
Yeah, totally different. Big girls don't cry was Four Seasons, 1962. It was also an oldie in 1980. So I'd say the window for oldie is actually 25 years.
I'm not actually familiar with little girl, don't cry. I googled 1950 big band music.