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The video is a winning combination of nostalgia, intrigue and surrealism. And its viral ascent can tell us a lot about modern meme culture.

One of Keith Carradine's most famous roles in recent years was as Wild Bill Hickok on the HBO TV show Deadwood. But Carradine is also a musician, and it was a song that jump-started his career — and another that drew him to his latest Broadway role.

Every generation has it seminal events. For Baby boomers one of them was February 9, 1964, when The Beatles played on the “Ed Sullivan Show.” "I Saw Her Standing There" is our Song of the Day.

Russ Columbo is a forgotten footnote in Hollywood history. He was a virtuoso violinist, a crooner, a songwriter, actor and soon-to-be husband of Carole Lombard when he died September 2, 1934 from an accidental gunshot wound to the head.

One of Elvis Presley's signature songs and our Song of the Day, "Love Me Tender," was released on September 29, 1956. It quickly zoomed to number one the Billboard Hot 100, knocking "Hound Dog" off the top of the chart. The song's origins are equally interesting.

On Dec. 6, 1969, a Hell’s Angel member killed a concertgoer during a rock concert at Altamont Speedway in northern California. Rock historians like to call it the end of the 1960s, and the antithesis of Woodstock, four months earlier.

Cab Calloway was the rapper of his time. He was one of the most popular bandleaders and singers of the 1930s and 40s, black or white. Minnie the Moocher was recorded on March 3, 1931 and sold more than one million copies.

Seeger believed songs were a way of binding people to a cause. He talks about fellow folk music icon Woody Guthrie and jumping railroad cars in an archival interview from 1985.

The most famous Egyptian burial chamber discovery took place February 16, 1923, when British archaeologist Howard Carter unsealed the chamber to King Tutankhamun. Sixty years later, The Bangles encouraged everyone to "Walk Like an Egyptian."

We made you a doozy of a mix — 50 of NPR Music's favorite songs from the first half of 2013, including hip-hop anthems, dudes with beards, avant-garde lullabies, dance-music stompers, tear-jerking ballads, funk odysseys and synth-pop singalongs.