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Everything about 1967 In Music totally explained

The year 1967 was an important year for psychedelic music, with releases from Small Faces "Itchycoo Park", The Doors (The Doors, Strange Days), Jefferson Airplane (Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing at Baxter's), The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Cream's Disraeli Gears, The Rolling Stones's Their Satanic Majesties Request, The Who's The Who Sell Out and The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Are You Experienced?and ).

Events

Top albums released in the U.S.A.

Winter
  • Younger Than Yesterday - The Byrds
  • Mellow Yellow - Donovan
  • The Doors - The Doors (debut)
  • More of The Monkees - The Monkees
  • King & Queen - Otis Redding and Carla Thomas
  • Between the Buttons - The Rolling Stones
  • The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland - The Supremes Spring
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
  • Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield (debut)
  • Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits - Bob Dylan
  • Up, Up and Away - The Fifth Dimension (debut)
  • I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin
  • The Grateful Dead - The Grateful Dead
  • I'm a Lonesome Fugitive - Merle Haggard
  • Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
  • The Marvelettes - The Marvelettes
  • Headquarters - The Monkees
  • 12 Greatest Hits - Patsy Cline
  • How Great Thou Art - Elvis Presley
  • Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim - Frank Sinatra
  • Temptations Live! - The Temptations
  • Happy Together - The Turtles
  • The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground (debut) Summer
  • Joan (album) - Joan Baez
  • Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 2 - The Beach Boys
  • Smiley Smile - The Beach Boys
  • Bee Gees 1st - The Bee Gees
  • The Byrds' Greatest Hits - The Byrds
  • Brighten the Corner - Ella Fitzgerald
  • Aretha Arrives - Aretha Franklin
  • Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (debut)
  • Winds of Change - Eric Burdon & the Animals
  • Moby Grape - Moby Grape
  • Absolutely Free - The Mothers of Invention
  • The Sound of Wilson Pickett - Wilson Pickett
  • The Temptations with a Lot o' Soul - The Temptations
  • Little Games - The Yardbirds Autumn
  • Wild Honey - The Beach Boys
  • Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
  • Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield
  • It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr
  • Disraeli Gears - Cream
  • A Gift from a Flower to a Garden - Donovan
  • Greatest Hits - Diana Ross and The Supremes
  • Wear Your Love Like Heaven - Donovan
  • Strange Days - The Doors
  • John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan
  • The Magic Garden - The Fifth Dimension
  • United - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
  • Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie
  • Branded Man - Merle Haggard
  • Everybody Needs Love - Gladys Knight and the Pips
  • After Bathing At Baxter's Jefferson Airplane
  • Forever Changes - Love
  • Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd. - The Monkees
  • Days of Future Passed - The Moody Blues
  • Blowin' Your Mind! - Van Morrison
  • Pleasures Of The Harbor - Phil Ochs
  • The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (condensed version) - Pink Floyd
  • Clambake - Elvis Presley
  • Procol Harum - Procol Harum
  • Their Satanic Majesties Request - Rolling Stones
  • Seen in Green - The Seekers
  • Silk & Soul - Nina Simone
  • The Temptations in a Mellow Mood - The Temptations
  • The Who Sell Out - The Who
  • Safe as Milk - Captain Beefheart

    Charting 1968 albums released in 1967 in Britain

  • - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Something Else By The Kinks - The Kinks
  • Days of Future Passed - Moody Blues
  • Mr. Fantasy - Traffic

    Other notable albums

  • Sounds Like - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
  • Insight Out - The Association
  • Reach Out - Burt Bacharach
  • Casino Royale (1967 film) (soundtrack) - Burt Bacharach
  • Juicy - Willie Bobo
  • David Bowie - David Bowie (debut)
  • Gorilla - Bonzo Dog Band (debut)
  • Slow Drag - Donald Byrd
  • Live! at the Village Vanguard Again - John Coltrane
  • This Is My Song - Ray Conniff
  • Ludo - Ivor Cutler Trio
  • Sorcerer - Miles Davis
  • Nefertiti - Miles Davis
  • Sammy Davis, Jr. Sings the Complete 'Dr. Doolittle' - Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Super Blues - Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter
  • The Super Super Blues Band - Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Howlin' Wolf
  • And His Mother Called Him Bill - Duke Ellington
  • Far East Suite - Duke Ellington
  • Whisper Not - Ella Fitzgerald
  • Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur - Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington
  • Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald
  • Tim Hardin 2 - Tim Hardin
  • Evil - Howlin' Wolf
  • Víctor Jara - Víctor Jara
  • Wave - Antonio Carlos Jobim
  • Born Under a Bad Sign - Albert King
  • Blues Is King - B. B. King
  • The Way I Feel - Gordon Lightfoot
  • Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast - Julie London
  • With Body & Soul - Julie London
  • West Side Soul - Magic Sam
  • Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal
  • Deliver - The Mamas and the Papas
  • Crusade - John Mayall
  • Canciones Folklóricas de América - Víctor Jara
  • A Hard Road - John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
  • The Beat of Brazil - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
  • A Day in the Life - Wes Montgomery
  • Chelsea Girl - Nico
  • The Pandemonium Shadow Show - Harry Nilsson
  • The Fastest Guitar Alive - Roy Orbison (motion picture soundtrack)
  • Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson - Roy Orbison
  • Cry Softly Lonely One - Roy Orbison
  • Morning Dew - Tim Rose
  • Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - Pete Seeger
  • Schizophrenia - Wayne Shorter
  • The World We Knew - Frank Sinatra
  • Ten Years After - Ten Years After
  • Easter Everywhere - 13th Floor Elevators
  • The Real McCoy - McCoy Tyner
  • Cosmic Sounds - The Zodiac
  • Jigsaw - The Shadows
  • Song Cycle - Van Dyke Parks

    Biggest hit singles

    The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1967.
    # Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
    1 Procol Harum A Whiter Shade of Pale 1967 UK 1 - May 1967, Canada 1 - Jun 1967, Holland 1 - Jun 1967, France 1 - May 1972, Germany 1 - Jul 1967, Éire 1 - Jun 1967, Australia 1 for 3 weeks Nov 1967, Australia Goset 1 - Jun 1967, Norway 3 - Jun 1967, Europe 4 of the 1960s, US BB 5 - Jul 1967, RYM 5 of 1967, DDD 6 of 1967, Global 7 (10 M sold) - 1967, Italy 10 of 1967, South Africa 19 of 1967, TOTP 36, US BB 38 of 1967, POP 38 of 1967, US CashBox 47 of 1967, Rolling Stone 57, WXPN 60, Scrobulate 62 of oldies, Poland 69 of all time, Belgium 75 of all time, Acclaimed 100, OzNet 131, Germany 144 of the 1960s
    2 The Monkees I'm a Believer 1967 UK 1 - Jan 1967, US BB 1 - Dec 1966, Canada 1 - Nov 1966, Holland 1 - Jan 1967, Norway 1 - Jan 1967, Germany 1 - Feb 1967, Éire 1 - Jan 1967, Australia 1 for 1 weeks Apr 1967, US BB 2 of 1966, Australia Goset 2 - Jan 1967, South Africa 2 of 1967, POP 2 of 1966, US CashBox 8 of 1967, Australia 9 of 1967, DDD 12 of 1966, RYM 26 of 1966, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1966, OzNet 34, 38 in 2FM list, Scrobulate 49 of 60s, Germany 67 of the 1960s, Italy 85 of 1967, Acclaimed 503
    3 The Beatles All You Need is Love 1967 UK 1 - Jul 1967, US BB 1 - Jul 1967, Canada 1 - Jul 1967, Holland 1 - Jul 1967, Norway 1 - Jul 1967, Germany 1 - Aug 1967, Éire 1 - Aug 1967, Australia 1 for 4 weeks Dec 1967, Australia Goset 1 - Jul 1967, Europe 26 of the 1960s, RYM 26 of 1967, US CashBox 43 of 1967, Scrobulate 50 of classic rock, DDD 52 of 1967, Italy 60 of 1967, Germany 118 of the 1960s, Party 130 of 2007, Rolling Stone 362, WXPN 491, OzNet 869, Acclaimed 1488
    4 The Doors Light My Fire 1967 US BB 1 - Jun 1967, France 1 - Jul 1971, Éire 1 - Jun 1991, US CashBox 2 of 1967, Canada 2 - Jun 1967, DDD 2 of 1967, UK 7 - Jun 1991, Europe 9 of the 1960s, US BB 15 of 1967, POP 15 of 1967, Australia Goset 16 - Sep 1967, RYM 19 of 1967, 20 in 2FM list, Acclaimed 23, Scrobulate 24 of classic rock, Holland 25 - Aug 1967, Belgium 31 of all time, Rolling Stone 35, RIAA 52, Poland 65 of all time, Virgin 71, TheQ 137, WXPN 161, OzNet 194
    5 The Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever 1967 Canada 1 - Feb 1967, Holland 1 - Feb 1967, Norway 1 - Feb 1967, Australia 1 for 3 weeks Jul 1967, Australia Goset 1 - Mar 1967, RYM 1 of 1967, UK 2 - Feb 1967, France 4 - Apr 1976, US BB 8 - Mar 1967, DDD 9 of 1967, 11 in 2FM list, Acclaimed 12, Australia 16 of 1967, Europe 17 of the 1960s, Scrobulate 52 of classic rock, WXPN 75, Rolling Stone 76, OzNet 185, Belgium 235 of all time

    Top American hits on record

    Single - Artist Composer
    Winter
    "I'm a Believer" - The Monkees
    --
    w.m. Neil Diamond
    "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" - The Royal Guardsmen w.m. Phil Gernhard and Richard Holler
    "Tell It Like It Is" - Aaron Neville w.m. George Davis and Lee Diamond
    "Winchester Cathedral" - The New Vaudeville Band w.m. Geoff Stephens
    "Sugar Town" - Nancy Sinatra w.m. Lee Hazlewood
    "That's Life" - Frank Sinatra w.m. Dean Kay and Kelly Gordon
    "Good Thing" - Paul Revere and the Raiders w.m. Mark Lindsay and Terry Melcher
    "Words of Love" - The Mamas and the Papas w.m. John Phillips
    "Standing in the Shadows of Love" - Four Tops w.m. Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland
    "Mellow Yellow" - Donovan w.m. Donovan
    "Georgy Girl" - The Seekers w. Jim Dale m. Tom Springfield
    "Nashville Cats" - The Lovin' Spoonful w.m. John Sebastian
    "Tell It to the Rain - The Four Seasons w.m. Mike Petrillo and Angelo Cifelli
    "Kind of a Drag" - The Buckinghams w.m. Jim Holvay
    "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet" - Blues Magoos w.m. Ronnie Gilbert, Ralph Scala and Mike Esposito
    "98.6" - Keith w.m. George Fischoff and Tony Powers
    "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" - The Supremes w.m. Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland
    "The Beat Goes On" - Sonny and Cher w.m. Sonny Bono
    "Gimme Some Lovin'" - Spencer Davis Group w.m. Steve Winwood, Muff Winwood and Spencer Davis
    "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" - The Casinos w.m. John D. Loudermilk
    "Baby I Need Your Loving" - Johnny Rivers w.m. Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland
    "Sock It to Me, Baby" - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels w.m. Bob Crewe and L. Russell Brown
    "Penny Lane" - The Beatles w.m. John Lennon and Paul McCartney
    "Happy Together" - The Turtles w.m. Gary Bonner and Alan Gordon
    "My Cup Runneth Over" - Ed Ames w. Tom Jones m. Harvey Schmidt
    "There's a Kind of Hush" - Herman's Hermits w.m. Les Reed and Geoff Stephens
    "For What It's Worth" - Buffalo Springfield w.m. Stephen Stills
    "Dedicated to the One I Love" - The Mamas & the Papas w.m. Lowman Pauling and Ralph Bass
    .
    Spring
    "Bernadette" - The Four Tops w.m. Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland
    "This Is My Song" - Petula Clark w.m. Charlie Chaplin
    "Strawberry Fields Forever" - The Beatles w.m. John Lennon and Paul McCartney
    "Something Stupid" - Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra w.m. C. Carson Parks
    "Western Union" - The Five Americans w.m. Mike Rabon, Norman Ezell and John Durrill
    "I Think We're Alone Now" - Tommy James & the Shondells w.m. Ritchie Cordell
    "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" - The Monkees w.m. Neil Diamond
    "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You" - Aretha Franklin w.m. Ronnie Shannon
    "Jimmy Mack" - Martha and the Vandellas w.m. Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland
    "Sweet Soul Music" - Arthur Conley w.m. Sam Cooke, Arthur Conley and Otis Redding
    "The Happening" - The Supremes w.m. Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland and Frank DeVol
    "Don't You Care" - The Buckinghams w.m. Gary Beisbier and Jim Holvay
    "Close Your Eyes" - Peaches and Herb w.m. Chuck Willis
    "You Got What It Takes" - Dave Clark Five w.m. Berry Gordy, Roquel Davis and Gwen Gordy Fuqua
    "I'm a Man" - Spencer Davis Group w.m. Jimmy Miller and Steve Winwood
    "Groovin'" - The Young Rascals w.m. Eddie Brigati and Felix Cavaliere
    "I Got Rhythm" - The Happenings w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
    "Respect" - Aretha Franklin w.m. Otis Redding
    "Release Me" - Engelbert Humperdinck w.m. Robert Yount, Eddie Miller and Dub Williams
    "Him Or Me--What's It Gonna Be?" - Paul Revere and the Raiders w.m. Mark Lindsay and Terry Melcher
    "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" - Neil Diamond w.m. Neil Diamond
    "Somebody to Love" - Jefferson Airplane w.m. Grace Slick
    "All I Need Is You" - The Temptations w.m. Eddie Holland, R. Dean Taylor and Frank Wilson
    "She'd Rather Be with Me" - The Turtles w.m. Gary Bonner and Alan Gordon
    "Little Bit o' Soul" - Music Explosion w.m. John Carter and Ken Lewis
    "Windy" - The Association w.m. Ruthann Friedman
    "Mirage" - Tommy James & the Shondells w.m. Ritchie Cordell and Bo Gentry
    .
    Summer
    "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" - Scott McKenzie w.m. John Phillips
    "Can't Take My Eyes off of You" - Frankie Valli w.m. Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
    "Sunday Will Never Be the Same" - Spanky and Our Gang w.m. Terry Cashman and Gene Pistilli
    "Let's Live For Today" - The Grass Roots w.m. David Shapiro. Michael Cenciarelli and Guido Guilio.
    "Come on Down to my Boat" - Every Mother's Son w.m. Wes Farrell and Jerry Goldstein
    "Don't Sleep In The Subway" - Petula Clark w.m. Jackie Trent and Tony Hatch
    "Up, Up and Away" - The Fifth Dimension w.m. Jimmy Webb
    "The Tracks of My Tears" - Johnny Rivers w.m. Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore and Marv Tarplin
    "Light My Fire" - The Doors w.m. Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore
    "C'mon Marianne" - The Four Seasons w.m. Ray Bloodworth and L. Russel Brown
    "A Whiter Shade of Pale" - Procol Harum w. Keith Reid m. Gary Brooker
    "I Was Made to Love Her" - Stevie Wonder w.m. Henry Cosby, Lula Mae Hardaway, Sylvia Moy and Stevie Wonder
    "White Rabbit" - Jefferson Airplane w.m. Grace Slick
    "All You Need Is Love" - The Beatles w.m. John Lennon and Paul McCartney
    "Pleasant Valley Sunday" - The Monkees w.m. Gerry Goffin and Carole King
    "Carrie-Anne" - The Hollies w.m. Tony Hicks, Allan Clarke and Graham Nash
    "A Girl Like You" - The Young Rascals w.m. Eddie Brigati and Felix Cavaliere
    "Baby, I Love You" - Aretha Franklin w.m. Ronnie Shannon
    "Ode to Billie Joe" - Bobbie Gentry w.m. Bobbie Gentry
    "Reflections" - Diana Ross & the Supremes w.m. Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland
    "You're My Everything" - The Temptations w.m. Norman Whitfield, Roger Penzabene and Cornelius Grant
    "Come Back When You Grow Up" - Bobby Vee and the Strangers w.m. Martha Sharp
    "The Letter" - Box Tops w.m. Wayne Carson Thompson
    "Apple, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie" - Jay and the Techniques w.m. Maurice Irby
    "San Franciscan Nights" - Eric Burdon and the Animals w.m. Eric Burdon, John Weider, Barry Jenkins, Danny McCulloch and Vic Briggs
    "Funky Broadway" - Wilson Pickett w.m. Arlester Christian
    "Never My Love" - The Association w.m. Donald Addrisi and Richard Addrisi
    "Higher and Higher" - Jackie Wilson w.m. Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner, Carl William Smith
    "I Dig Rock and Roll Music" - Peter, Paul and Mary w.m. Paul Stookey, James Mason and Dave Dixon
    .
    Autumn
    "Brown Eyed Girl" - Van Morrison w.m. Van Morrison
    "Little Ole Man" - Bill Cosby w. Bill Cosby, w.m. Henry Cosby, Stevie Wonder and Sylvia May
    "How Can I Be Sure" - The Young Rascals w.m. Eddie Brigati and Felix Cavaliere
    "Gimme Little Sign" - Brenton Wood w.m. Alfred Smith (musician), Joe Hooven and Hal Winn
    "To Sir, with Love" - Lulu w. Don Black m. Mark London
    "Soul Man" - Sam and Dave w.m. Isaac Hayes and David Porter
    "Expressway to Your Heart" - The Soul Survivors w.m. Leon Huff, Kenneth Gamble and Donald Storball
    "It Must Be Him" - Vikki Carr w. Maurice Vidalin trans. Mack David m. Gilbert Bécaud
    "Your Precious Love" - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell w.m. Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson
    "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" - Aretha Franklin w.m. Carole King
    "The Rain, the Park and Other Things" - The Cowsills w.m. Artie Kornfeld and Steve Duboff
    "Please Love Me Forever" - Bobby Vinton w.m. Johnny Malone and Ollie Blanchard
    "I Say a Little Prayer" - Dionne Warwick w. Hal David m. Burt Bacharach
    "I Can See for Miles" - The Who w.m. Pete Townshend
    "Daydream Believer" - The Monkees w.m. John Stewart
    "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - Gladys Knight & the Pips w.m. Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong
    "An Open Letter to my Teenage Son" - Victor Lundberg w. Victor Lundberg
    "I Second That Emotion" - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles w.m. Smokey Robinson and