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Turn on any radio and chances are it won't take you long to find an oldies station featuring the best of the 1950s. With catchy tunes by such recording artists as Elvis and Pat Boone introducing a nation to a whole new style of popular music, the music of this decade would have lasting impact that would reach well into the new millennium. Now thanks to PBS viewers can take a musical journey back to a more innocent era when the obscenity of gyrating hips shocked viewers of the Ed Sullivan Show, and the sock-hop was the destination of choice for a wild night out.