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1967 in music

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1967 in music - 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 stage 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 is released
• Creedence Clearwater Revival, The First Edition (fronted by Kenny Rogers) and Chicago form.

1967 in music - Top albums released in America

Winter

• Younger Than Yesterday - The Byrds
• Mellow Yellow - Donovan
• More of The Monkees - The Monkees
• 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
• The Doors - The Doors (debut)
• Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits - Bob Dylan
• Up, Up and Away - The Fifth Dimension
• 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
• 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

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)
• Moby Grape - Moby Grape
• 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
• 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
• Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd. - The Monkees
• Blowin' Your Mind! - Van Morrison
• Pleasures Of The Harbor - Phil Ochs
• Pink Floyd - condensed version of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd's debut album
• Clambake - Elvis Presley
• Procol Harum - Procol Harum
• Silk and Soul - Nina Simone
• The Temptations in a Mellow Mood - The Temptations
• The Who Sell Out - The Who

1967 in music - Charting 1968 albums released in 1967 in Britain

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

1967 in music - Other notable albums

• David Bowie - David Bowie (debut)
• Gorilla - Bonzo Dog Band (debut)
• Live! at the Village Vanguard Again - John Coltrane
• Sorcerer - Miles Davis
• Nefertiti - Miles Davis
• Whisper Not - Ella Fitzgerald
• Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur - Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington
• Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald
• Evil - Howlin' Wolf
• Born Under a Bad Sign - [Albert King]
• Blues Is King - B. B. King
• The Way I Feel - Gordon Lightfoot
• West Side Soul - Magic Sam
• Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal
• Crusade - John Mayall
• A Hard Road - John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
• 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
• The World We Knew - Frank Sinatra
• Ten Years After - Ten Years After
• Easter Everywhere - 13th Floor Elevators
• Cosmic Sounds - The Zodiac

1967 in music - Top American hits on record

1967 in music - British number one hits not included above

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

1967 in music - Other singles

• "Ciao Baby" - Lynne Randell
• "Sit Down I Think I Love You" - The Executives
• "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
• "Honey Chile" - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas (w.m. Richard Morris)
• "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
• "Even The Bad Times Are Good" - The Tremeloes
• "Here Comes My Baby" - The Tremeloes
• "Alfie" - Dionne Warwick
• "Excerpt From A Teenage Opera" "(Grocer Jack)" - Keith West
• "Happy Jack" - The Who

1967 in music - Published popular music

• "Ain't Got No" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
• "Aquarius" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
• "At the Crossroads" w.m. Leslie Bricusse, from the film Doctor Dolittle
• "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 Wan'na Be Like You" w.m. Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, from the film The Jungle Book
• "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
• "Springtime for Hitler" w.m. Mel Brooks, from the film The Producers
• "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
• "To Sir, with Love" w.m. Don Black & Mark London. Introduced by Lulu in the 1967 film To Sir, with Love
• "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

1967 in music - Classical music

• George Crumb - Echoes of Time and the River (Echoes II) for orchestra
• Gottfried von Einem - Violin Concerto
• Paul Lansky - String Quartet No. 1
• Toru Takemitsu - November Steps
• György Ligeti - Lontano

1967 in music - Opera

• Yasushi Akutagawa - Orpheus of Hiroshima

1967 in music - Musical theater

• The Boy Friend (Sandy Wilson) - London revival opened at the Comedy Theatre on November 29 and ran for 365 performances
• By Jupiter (Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart Book: Rodgers and Hart). Off-Broadway revival opened at Theatre Four on January 19 and ran for 118 performances.
• Curley McDimple (Music & Lyrics: Robert Dahdah Book: Mary Boylan and Robert Dahdah). Off-Broadway production opened at the Bert Wheeler Theatre on November 22 and ran for 931 performances
• Fiddler On The Roof (Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick Book: Joseph Stein). London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on February 16 and ran for 2030 performances.
• The Four Musketeers, (Music: Laurie Johnson Lyrics: Herbert Kretzmer Book: Michael Pertwee). London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on December 5 and ran for 462 performances
• Oliver! (Music, Lyrics & Book: Lionel Bart) - London revival opened at the Piccadilly Theatre on April 26 and ran for 331 performances
• Sweet Charity (Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Dorothy Fields Book: Neil Simon). London production opened at the Prince Of Wales Theatre on October 11 and ran for 476 performances.

1967 in music - Musical films

• Camelot
• Doctor Dolittle
• Half A Sixpence
• The Happiest Millionaire
• How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
• The Mikado
• Thoroughly Modern Millie

1967 in music - Births

• January 2 - Tia Carrere, actress and singer
• January 4 - Benjamine Darvill, Crash Test Dummies
• January 7 - Mark Lamarr, presenter of radio and TV music programmes
• January 9 - Dave Matthews
• January 14 - Steve Bowman, Counting Crows
• February 20 - Kurt Cobain, Nirvana
• March 4 - Evan Dando, Lemonheads
• March 7 - Randy Guss, Toad The Wet Sprocket
• March 7 - Ruthie Henshall, star of stage musicals
• March 17 - Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins
• March 21 - Jonas Berggren, Ace Of Base
• March 29 - John Popper, Blues Traveler
• May 6 - Mark Bryan, Hootie & The Blowfish
• May 23 - Phil Selway, Radiohead
• June 7 - Dave Navarro, Jane's Addiction & Red Hot Chili Peppers
• June 9 - Dean Felber, Hootie & The Blowfish
• June 24 - Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, Rammstein
• July 22 - Pat Badger, Extreme
• July 27 - Juliana Hatfield
• August 21 - Serj Tankian, System of a Down
• September 19 - Ricky Bell, Bell Biv DeVoe
• September 21 - Faith Hill, country singer
• October 2 - Bud Graugh, Sublime
• October 10 - Mike Malinin, Goo Goo Dolls
• October 27 - Scott Weiland, Stone Temple Pilots
• October 30 - Gavin Rossdale, Bush
• October 31 - Adam Schlesinger, Fountains of Wayne
• November 14 - Letitia Dean, actress and singer
• November 16 - Ronnie DeVoe, Bell Biv DeVoe
• November 24 - Melanie Thornton, singer
• December 13 - Chuck Schuldiner, Death
• December 25 - Jason Thirsk, Pennywise (joins in 1988 until death in 1996)

1967 in music - Deaths

• January 3 - Mary Garden, operatic soprano
• January 7 - Carl Schuricht, conductor
• February 16 - Smiley Burnette, singer and songwriter
• February 25 - Fats Pichon, jazz pianist, bandleader
• March 6 - Zoltán Kodály, composer
• March 6 - Nelson Eddy, US singer and actor
• March 11 - Geraldine Farrar, operatic soprano
• April 5 - Mischa Elman, violinist
• May 17 - John Wesley Work III, composer
• May 31 - Billy Strayhorn, composer and pianist
• June 24 - Lionel Belasco, pianist and bandleader
• July 17 - John Coltrane
• July 26 - Matthijs Vermeulen, composer
• August 27 - Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles
• September 25 - Stuff Smith, jazz violinist
• October 3 - Woody Guthrie
• October 3 - Sir Malcolm Sargent
• November 13 - Harriet Cohen, pianist
• November 23 - Otto Erich Deutsch, musicologist
• December 4 - Bert Lahr, vaudeville performer
• December 6 - Lillian Evanti, opera singer
• December 10 - Otis Redding in plane crash
• December 29 - Paul Whiteman

1967 in music - Awards

1967 in music - Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1967

1967 in music - Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1967

1967 in music - Reference

"Hot 100" (1967) Billboard

Category: 1967 in music

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