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Popular music performers from the late 1950s and early 1960s reunite in concert at the historic Benedum Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA for a PBS fund-raising special in the My Music series.

Host/Co-Creator George Davison, along with Field Reporters Greg Costantino, Tamara Krinsky, Darieth Chisolm, David Carmine, and Jackie Long, embark on a worldwide journey to uncover innovators on the cutting edge of tomorrow's technology.

Artists and groups from the 1960s perform.

Rock, pop and soul artists from the 1960s perform some of their big hits on stage with new performances shot in the 2000s.

Singer Peter Marshall hosts a look back at the bands and singers of the big band era of the 1930s-1950s.

In an acclaimed career spanning over half a century of timeless entertainment, husband and wife Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme represented the very best in popular music, starting with youthful pop hits in the 1950s and 1960s (Go Away Little Girl, Blame It On The Bossa Nova) followed by their Grammy® and Emmy®-winning triumphs focusing on the Great American Songbook. Their musician son David Lawrence (High School Musical) hosts STEVE LAWRENCE and EYDIE GORME: MEMORIES OF MY MOM AND DAD, featuring music-variety television performances from the 1960s and 1970s along with remembrances and tributes from longtime family friend Carol Burnett and singer Michael Feinstein.

Selection of some of the greatest rock and pop music performances of the 1960s from "The Ed Sullivan Show".

Co-hosts Nick Clooney and Peter Marshall look back at the big band period of the 1930s-1950s, with vintage performance footage of the great singers - the boy "crooners" and the girl "canaries". Among those who got their start singing with big bands were Frank Sinatra (singing with the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras, among others), Peggy Lee (with Benny Goodman), Doris Day (with Les Brown), Perry Como (with Ted Weems) and Jo Stafford (with Tommy Dorsey).

Whoopi Goldberg introduces vintage 1970s and early 1980s soul-pop favorites with original footage by the artists who made the songs hits.

The most popular classical music by such composers as Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Strauss, heard with vibrant images from history and nature offering visual interpretations of the music.

Original MTV VJ Martha Quinn hosts a joyful celebration of popular hits from the 1980s with a collection of classic music videos that ruled TV screens, and comments about the fashions, culture and historical events that defined the decade.

For over 50 years, Perry Como ranked as one of America's most successful and beloved entertainers. A big band singer in the late 1930s, a radio star in the 1940s and then a TV headliner into the 1990s. Perry was a warm and welcome presence in tens of millions of households for six decades, charting over 100 hit songs along the way.

The music of popular composer Burt Bacharach, spanning the 1960s through the 1980s, is celebrated with vintage television footage featuring the original artists who made hits out of the classic songs.

The beloved singer-songwriter's legendary career is celebrated with archival footage from her early country days starting with Porter Wagoner in the late 1960s to her success as a crossover pop superstar a decade later. Performances include "Coat of Many Colors," "Here You Come Again," "Islands In The Stream" (with Kenny Rogers) and "9 To 5."

Great moments from the classic 1965-1966 NBC-TV music series "Hullabaloo" are presented with host Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits.

Country pop legends unite to perform their biggest and best-loved hit recordings from the 1950s, 60s and 70s in this 'My Music' special on PBS.

Michelle Phillips hosts this survey of the music of the 1960s using a mix of archive video and recent concert performances of some of the iconic acts of the decade.

This special celebrates the centennial of the timeless and inescapable artist Nat King Cole using rarely seen footage from his variety show and other archival material with full performances of his greatest hits and cherished standards.

Celebrate the sweet sounds of sibling singing groups, from The Andrews Sisters to The Lennon Sisters.