do you associate the term "oldies" with 1960s music?

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yes, any old music is oldies technically, but i tend to associate the word "oldies" with music from the 1960s.

i'm from 1997. anything from the 50s up to the 70s is "oldies" to me.

not sure what to call popular music from the 30s.

vintage? (that mostly applies to material goods of the era)

I think of any music from before I was born as "old", so "oldies" would be anything from before the 90s.

When I think of the word "oldies", I usually think of an old couple with white hair. He's wearing a blue jumper, and she's wearing something pink. They're probably about 70/75. They only listen to music from the 50s and 60s, and they like to complain about (in their words) "that dreadful, horrid music the youngsters listen to today. We didn't have rubbish like that in our day! Listen to it, you can't even hear what they're saying. Shameful".

To me, anything that was good before the year 200X are considered as "oldies".

To me, anything from the 80s and earlier is considered oldies.

i tend to associate oldies with 60s and early 70s music because growing up, that's what oldies stations played.

I was born the year Elvis hit it big in 1955, and turned 15 in 1970. When I was 15 I considered "oldies" to mean rocknroll from the pre psychelic era (1955 to 1965 roughly).

Then in the eighties they started radio formats called "classic rock" (late sixties to eighties) and "oldies rock" (fifties and sixties), and even "retro" (disco and soul from the seventies).

But now I think of "oldies" as meaning any pop music from the 20th century (pre 2000). Or actually pre 1990 since music hasnt changed much since 1990 IMHO. The same competing genres (Grunge, Techno, House,rap) that came to the fore in the 90's are pretty much the same genres that compete now.

I associate it with Pop music from the 60's to the mid '70's. Music that was listened to on "Top 40" AM stations with a mono transistor radio. I bought 45 RPM vinyl singles of your favorite songs.

Not "Classic Rock" from that era because that was listened to on FM stations in stereo and was album oriented.

There was some overlap as "classic rock" songs such as The Allman Brothers "Rambling Man" got into the singles charts and thus was played on "Top 40" formatted stations. The singles version for AM radio was short 2 to 3 minutes long, the Album version longer sometimes considerably longer. Disco in the second half of the 70's killed this two-tiered system as dance/club/12 inch versions were made to play in the discos, the beginning of the multiple versions we have today.

Today there is a popular radio format known as "Classic Hits" in which pop, classic rock, disco, new wave, R & B from the '70's to the early 90's are played and "Classic Rock" stations mix in 90's Alternative acts now.

On Internet and Satellite radio you can pursue your "special" narrow music interests to your hearts content. Here are the multiple oldies stations on accuradio. http://www.accuradio.com/oldies/

Yes, for me "oldies" refers to 1950s and 1960 music. It is my favorite type of music.

Anything from the 1950s to the mid-1980s for me. I hear stuff like Spice Girls being played on oldies stations and I think "what is this sorcery? The music I grew up with is now 'oldies'!" I must be getting old, but 1970s music in particular will always sound fresh to me

I think of 60s & 50s music

...As Nat and others pointed out , t he term was really meant to apply to Little Richard/Chuck Berry/Elvis/Five Satins and so forth era music , the original rock.n.roll era.rhythm & blues - There were resissue LPs of : Oldies But Goodies : as long ago as the late 50s and new songs like : Those Oldies But Goodies Remind Me Of You : .
As Kip said , no one so much called 1930s/40s , say , popular music - Rudy Vallee and Glen Miller and Sammy Kaye - : oldies : .
(I know of a British magazine called The Oldie , sort of aimed at grumpy old people !
As time went by , the meaning of : oldies : got streched - And , of course , on one level/meaning , any older song is an : oldie : ,

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I usually associate music before the 90s as oldies.

I tend to think of pre-80s as oldies. I was not happy when The Bluetones - Slight Return was played on Radio 2 as an oldie recently. Music from my teen years can't be oldies yet?!?

They played Hootie and The Blowfish's Hold my Hand on Radio 2 on Friday and i felt very conflicted about it. My music can't be on Radio 2, my Grandparents used to listen to Radio 2! I remember when it was all 60s music in the 80s.