1967 in music

Contents

1 Events

2 Albums released

3 Top American hits on record

4 British number one hits not included above

5 Other singles

6 Published popular music

13.1 Grammy Awards
13.2 Eurovision Song Contest

14 Reference

Events

January 15 - The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. At Ed Sullivan's request, the band changed their lyrics from "Let's spend the night together" to "Let's spend some time together".
January 22 - Simon and Garfunkel give live concert at Philharmonic Hall in New York City. While bits and pieces of this concert are released on October 4, 1997, on their box set Old Friends, the majority of this concert is not released until July, 2002.
January 30 - The Beatles shoot a promotional film for their forthcoming single Strawberry Fields Forever at Knole Park in Sevenoaks
February 3 - UK record producer Joe Meek murders his landlady and then commits suicide by shooting himself in the head.
February 12 - British police raid 'Redlands', the Sussex home of Keith Richards in the early hours of the morning following a tip-off about a party from the tabloid newspaper 'News Of The World'; although no arrests are made at the time, Richards, Mick Jagger and art dealer Robert Fraser are subsequently charged with possession of drugs.
February 13 - The Beatles new single "Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane" is released in the United States
February 14 - Aretha Franklin records "Respect" at the New York based Atlantic Studios
February 16 - "Aretha Franklin day" is declared in Detroit, Michigan
February 17 - "Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane" is released in the U.K.
February 23 - A taped appearance by The Beatles on American Bandstand. The band premieres their new music videos for the songs "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever"
February 24 - The Bee Gees sign a management contract with Robert Stigwood
March 3 - The Animals refuse to perform a show in Ottawa, Ontario unless they are paid in advance. The audience of 3000 riots causing $5000 in damages to the auditorium.
March 25 - The Who perform their first concert in the United States in New York
March 30 - The Beatles are photographed with a photographic collage and wax figures from Madame Tussaud's famous museum for the cover artwork of their soon to be released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album at Chelsea Manor Studios in London.
April 13 - The Rolling Stones' Concert in Warsaw.
May - Paul McCartney announces that all four members of the Beatles have "dropped acid"
May 1 - Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas.
May 2 - In the United States, Capitol Records pulls the plug on the Beach Boys' mysterious Smile project. Brian Wilson, who had taken more than a year to compose and produce the album, could not bring himself to finish it after hearing the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
May 12 - Pink Floyd stages the first ever rock concert with quadraphonic sound at Queen Elizabeth Hall, England
March 27 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney are awarded the Ivor Novello award for the song "Michelle," the most performed song in Britain in 1966
March 31 - For the first time, Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire during a concert in London. This later would become a trademark of Hendrix's performances. He is taken to hospital suffering burns to his hands.
June 1 - The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released. It is their most popular album to date.
June 16-18 - The Monterey International Pop Festival, the world's first large scale outdoor rock music festival.
June 25 - The Beatles perform "All You Need Is Love" for the Our World television special, which was the first worldwide television broadcast. Singing backup for the Beatles were a number of artists including Eric Clapton, and members of the Rolling Stones and The Who.
June 28 - The Supremes perform for the first time as Diana Ross & the Supremes at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Florence Ballard is fired from the group after the first night, and on-hand stand-in Cindy Birdsong permanently takes Ballard's place in the group.
June 29 - Rolling Stones members jailed for drug possession
July 18 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience is thrown off a support tour of The Monkees after complaints from the conservative Daughters of the American Revolution. Hendrix's manager Chas Chandler later admitted it was all for outrage publicity.
Summer - "The Summer of Love" in San Francisco
August 27 - The Beatles are informed of manager Brian Epstein's death, while in Bangor, Wales with the Maharishi
September 17 - The Doors appear on the Ed Sullivan show and perform "Light My Fire". Sullivan had requested that the line "Girl we couldn't get much higher" be changed for the show. Jim Morrison performed it the way it was written and The Doors were banned from the show.
September 30 - BBC Radio 1 launched
October 14 - Tammi Terrell faints and collapses into duet partner Marvin Gaye's arms onstage during a performance at the Hampton University homecoming in Virginia. She was later diagnosed with a brain tumor, and would die from brain cancer in 1970 at the age of 24.
November 9 - First issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published
December 5 - The Beatles open the Apple Shop in London
December 10 - Otis Redding dies in plane crash, two days after recording "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay"
December 26 - The Beatles air the Magical Mystery Tour on British TV
A taped appearance by The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. The band premieres their new music video for the song "Hello Goodbye".
Pickwick Records releases LP collection of ten 1950s A- and B-sides of singles by Simon and Garfunkel, recorded under their pseudonym Tom & Jerry, and tries to pass it off as current material by the duo. Simon and Garfunkel file legal challenge, and the record, now rare, is swiftly withdrawn from the market.
The Who destroys their instruments during a performance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
Toots & the Maytals releases "54-46 That's My Number", one of the first reggae songs
The Monkees become the best selling group of 1967, outselling the Beatles and the Rolling Stones combined.
The Savonlinna Opera Festival is re-opened in Savonlinna, Finland, helping to launch a repopularization of opera
Donny Hathaway's musical career begins
Ted Nugent's musical career begins
George Clinton's musical career begins
Sly & the Family Stone's musical career begins
Blue Öyster Cult's musical career begins
Captain Beefheart's musical career begins
Iggy Pop's musical career begins
The Velvet Underground's first album released
Creedence Clearwater Revival, The First Edition (fronted by Kenny Rogers) and Chicago form.

Albums released

Smiley Smile - The Beach Boys
Wild Honey - The Beach Boys
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
Bee Gees 1st - The Bee Gees
David Bowie - David Bowie (debut)
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield
The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw - Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Days of Future Passed - Moody Blues
Younger Than Yesterday - The Byrds
Greatest Hits - The Byrds
Disraeli Gears - Cream
Mellow Yellow - Donovan
Sunshine Superman - Donovan
Wear Your Love Like Heaven - Donovan
For Little Ones - Donovan
A Gift from a Flower to a Garden - Donovan
John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan
Up, Up and Away - The Fifth Dimension
The Magic Garden - The Fifth Dimension
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin
Aretha Arrives - Aretha Franklin
Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie
I'm a Lonesome Fugitive - Merle Haggard
Branded Man - Merle Haggard
Evil - Howlin' Wolf
Blues Is King - B. B. King
Something Else By The Kinks - The Kinks
Everybody Needs Love - Gladys Knight and the Pips
The Way I Feel - Gordon Lightfoot
Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal
The Marvelettes - The Marvellettes
Crusade - John Mayall
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
More of the Monkees - The Monkees
Headquarters - The Monkees
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd. - The Monkees
The Pandemonium Shadow Show - Harry Nilsson
Pleasures Of The Harbor - Phil Ochs
The Fastest Guitar Alive - Roy Orbison (motion picture soundtrack)
Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson - Roy Orbison
Cry Softly Lonely One - Roy Orbison
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd's debut album
How Great Thou Art - Elvis Presley
Clambake - Elvis Presley
Procol Harum - Procol Harum
Between The Buttons - The Rolling Stones
Morning Dew - Tim Rose
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - Pete Seeger
Silk and Soul - Nina Simone
With a Lot o' Soul - The Temptations
Ten Years After - Ten Years After
Mr. Fantasy - Traffic
Happy Together - The Turtles
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground
The Who Sell Out - The Who
Little Games - The Yardbirds

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" - The 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" - Lovin' Spoonful		w.m. John Sebastian
"Tell It to the Rain - Four Seasons		w.m. Frankie Valli
"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
"Dedicated to the One I Love" - Mamas and the Papas		w.m. Lowman Pauling and Ralph Bass
"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
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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 and 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 (musician) and Steve Winwood
"I Got Rhythm" - The Happenings		w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Respect" - Aretha Franklin		w.m. Otis Redding
"Release Me" - Englebert 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
"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 and the Shondells		w.m. Ritchie Cordell and Bo Gentry
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Summer
"San Francisco (Wear Some 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
"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 (In My Beautiful Balloon)" - The Fifth Dimension		w.m. Jimmy Webb
"The Tracks of my Tears" - Johnny Rivers		w.m. Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore and Mary Tarplin
"Light My Fire" - The Doors
"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
"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
"Baby, I Love You" - Aretha Franklin		w.m. Ronnie Shannon
"Ode to Billy Joe" - Bobbie Gentry		w.m. Bobbie Gentry
"Reflections" - 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
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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
"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
"Natural Woman" - Aretha Franklin		w.m. Carole King
"The Rain, the Park and Other Things" - The Cowsills		w.m. Artie Cornfeld 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 C. 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 Arthur Cleveland
Hello Goodbye" - The Beatles		w.m. John Lennon and Paul McCartney
"In and out of Love" - Diana Ross & the Supremes		w.m. Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland
"Boogaloo down Broadway" - Fantastic Johnny C.		w.m. Jesse James
"You Better Sit Down, Kids" - Cher		w.m. Sonny Bono
"Woman, Woman" - The Union Gap		w.m. Jim Glaser and Jimmy Payne
"Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)" - John Fred and his Playboy Band		w.m. John Fred and Andrew Bernard
"Chain of Fools" - Aretha Franklin		w.m. Don Covay
"Bend Me, Shape Me" - The American Breed		w.m. Scott English and Larry Weiss
"Skinny Legs and All" - Joe Tex		w.m. Joe Tex

British number one hits not included above

"Puppet on a String" - Sandie Shaw
"Silence Is Golden" - Tremeloes
"The Last Waltz" - Engelbert Humperdinck
"Massachussets" - Bee Gees
"Baby Now That I've Found You" - The Foundations
"Let the Heartaches Begin" - Long John Baldry

Other singles

"Blues Theme" - Davie Allan & the Arrows ("The Wild Angels" soundtrack)
"Soul Finger" - The Bar-Kays
"Heroes and Villains" - The Beach Boys
"Baby You're a Rich Man" - The Beatles
"Susan" - The Buckinghams
"So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star" - The Byrds
"My Back Pages" - The Byrds
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix" - Glen Campbell
"In the Heat of the Night" - Ray Charles
"There is a Mountain" - Donovan
"Friday on My Mind" - The Easybeats
"7-Rooms of Gloom" - The Four Tops
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
"It Takes Two" - Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston
"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" - The Monkees
"(I Wanna) Testify" - The Parliaments
"Big Boss Man" - Elvis Presley
"Indescribably Blue" - Elvis Presley
"Knock on Wood" - Otis Redding and Carla Thomas
"Tramp" - Otis Redding and Carla Thomas
"The Day I Met Marie" - Cliff Richard
"More Love" - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)(EP) - Simon and Garfunkel
"At The Zoo" - Simon and Garfunkel
"Scarborough Fair/Canticle" - Simon and Garfunkel
"Fakin' It" - Simon and Garfunkel
"Alfie" - Dionne Warwick
"Grocer Jack" - Keith West
"Happy Jack" - The Who

Published popular music

"Ain't Got No" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"Aquarius" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"The Bare Necessities" w.m. Terry Gilkyson from the film The Jungle Book
"Blowing Away" w.m. Laura Nyro
"Bonnie And Clyde" w.m. Charles Strouse
"Both Sides Now" w.m. Joni Mitchell
"By The Time I Get To Phoenix" w.m. Jimmy Webb
"Colour My World" w.m. Jackie Trent & Tony Hatch
"Do You Know The Way To San Jose?" w. Hal David m. Burt Bacharach
"Easy To Be Hard" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"The Eyes Of Love" w. Bob Russell m. Quincy Jones
"Fortuosity" w.m. Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, introduced by Tommy Steele in the film The Happiest Millionaire
"Frank Mills" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"Gentle On My Mind" w.m. John Hartford
"Good Morning, Starshine" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"Happiness" w.m. Clark Gesner from the musical You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
"Hare Krishna" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"I've Gotta Be Me" w.m. Walter Marks
"In The Heat Of The Night" w. Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman m. Quincy Jones. Theme song from the film of the same name, performed by Ray Charles
"Let The Sunshine In" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"The Look Of Love" w. Hal David m. Burt Bacharach from the film Casino Royale, sung by Dusty Springfield
"Mrs. Robinson" w.m. Paul Simon from the film The Graduate
"My Friend, The Doctor" w.m. Leslie Bricusse from the film Doctor Dolittle
"One Less Bell To Answer" w. Hal David m. Burt Bacharach
"Stony End" w.m. Laura Nyro
"Talk To The Animals" w.m. Leslie Bricusse from the film Doctor Dolittle
"The Tapioca" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jimmy Van Heusen Introduced by Jim Bryant dubbing for James Fox in the film Thoroughly Modern Millie
"Thoroughly Modern Millie" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jimmy Van Heusen Introduced by Julie Andrews in the film Thoroughly Modern Millie
"What A Wonderful World" w.m. Bob Thiele & George David Weiss
"Where Do I Go?" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"You Only Live Twice" w. Leslie Bricusse m. John Barry