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Welcome to our Icicles And Popsicles. Here you will find History and endless topics and products of music and products of the past as well as today. We constantly update this site daily and always add something new either as a keepsake or the newest product on the market. Thanks for stopping by.

To begin with American popular music; Blues, Jazz, Country, Rock, R&B, RAP, and Hip-Hop, are loved, studied, and cherished world wide. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Tom Jones, Dave Clark 5, and many others.


Rock and Roll grew from the melding of Black Rhythm and Blues with Country and Western. Artists like Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper introduced Rock and Roll to the "mainstream" youth in the early 1950's legendary Elvis Presley bursted on the scene in the middle 1950's.

Rhythm and Blues (R&B) From New Orleans Jazz, to the Motown Sound, to Urban Hip-Hop and Rap, black music roots directly from Jazz, Ragtime, and the old black Gospel and Spritual standards.

Country and Western music roots in the old folk songs and cowboy music,from Nashville and the Grand Ole Opray.

The 1980's and 1990's Mexican influence swept into American Music. Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Mexican added their music to the mix.

Putting it all together- The beat of Rock and Roll became the dominant force of American music. Today America's Music does what it always has done, bring people together. In American Music every aspect of life, etnicity, and culture is merged, mixed, and highlighted.

American music is the story of the country, a reflection of a nation alive with change, filled with curiousity,and lead by hope and excitement.

If youn have a few moments take a journey through the streets of recording artists and Solid Gold from the beginning to it's present day.

Listen to Music Online with 4,500,000 + Songs, albums, artists at your fingertips.


Edison's Victrola.


This was yesteryear but There's never been a sweeter melody than the one coming from Edison's Victrola. This miniature tune-playing piece opens to reveal a hidden message and a little mouse friend, Spin McNibble. This is a part of American music History that is truely anyone's collectors item. I have it listed on the page because there aren't to many around.

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