There are a number of Beatles songs listed for 1967 as would be expected.

In 1967, the music industry underwent a radical transformation characterized by studio experimentation, technological firsts, and the legitimization of rock as an art form. 

Technological & Studio Breakthroughs

• The Wah-Wah Pedal: Introduced to the public in 1967, the Cry Baby Wah was first recorded by Jimi Hendrix on “Burning of the Midnight Lamp”. It allowed guitarists to manipulate tone in real-time, becoming a staple of psychedelic and funk music.
• Quadraphonic Sound: Pink Floyd staged the first-ever rock concert featuring quadraphonic sound (a surround sound precursor) during their “Games for May” performance in London.
• PCM Recording: The first Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) recorder was developed by NHK in 1967, laying the early technical groundwork for digital audio.
• Drum Machines: The Ace Tone FR-1 Rhythm Ace was released, becoming the first electronic drum machine to enter popular music.
• Studio as an Instrument: The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band pioneered advanced techniques like Artificial Double Tracking (ADT), varispeeding, and complex tape loops to create sounds that could not be replicated live. 

Structural & Cultural Innovations

• The Rise of the “Concept Album”: Sgt. Pepper shifted the industry focus from individual hit singles to the album as a unified, artistic whole.
• Large-Scale Rock Festivals: The Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967 was the first major international rock festival, setting the template for future events like Woodstock and legitimizing rock music as a cultural movement.
• Symphonic & Progressive Rock: The Moody Blues released Days of Future Passed, which fused rock instrumentation with a full orchestra (the London Festival Orchestra), a key moment in the birth of symphonic and progressive rock.
• Global Satellite Broadcast: The Beatles performed “All You Need Is Love” for the first global live satellite TV program, Our World, reaching an estimated 400 million viewers across 19 nations. 

Genre-Defining Debuts

• The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced redefined the electric guitar through the innovative use of feedback, distortion, and studio effects.
• The Velvet Underground & Nico: Their debut introduced “Ostrich tuning” (all strings tuned to the same note) and explored darker, avant-garde lyrical themes, later serving as a blueprint for punk and indie rock.
• Aretha Franklin: Her move to Atlantic Records in 1967 resulted in “Respect,” which transformed soul music into a powerful vehicle for the feminist and Civil Rights movements. 

Cream’s “I Feel Fine” was the debut release by the Eric Clapton led Band. The Doors “Break On Through” was their Elektra debut. Jefferson Airplanes “Sombody To Love” was written by guitarist Darby Slick (brother in-lwas of Grace) and recorded by his group Great Society (the title was then “Someone to Love“).When Grace left to take over the vocals for Jefferson Airplane she recorded the song with the slight title change. The Doors “Light My Fire” also became a hit for Jose Feliciano in 1968.

Have you ever pondered what Procol Harum’s “Whiter Shade of Pale” aluddes to. There are all sorts of theories out there. The literal explanationas provided by lyricist Keith Reid is as follows: “I overheard someone say at a party, “You’ve turned a whiter shade of pale,” to a woman at a party, meaning her face lost all color, becoming ghostly white, perhaps from shock or illness”.

The Box Tops were lead by a sixteen year old Alex Chilton (Memphis) who sounded like a much older Black Soul Singer. Their hit song “The Letter” was recorded by Joe Cocker in 1970. Chilton went on to front the very influential Big Star.

The Boogie/Blues band Canned Heat were named after a Tommy Johnson (1896 – 1956) song. Canned heat was a dangerous, jellied cooking fuel (like Sterno) that desperate people, especially during the Depression, drank for intoxication by straining it through a cloth (like a sock) to extract the alcohol (methyl alcohol/ethanol) and then mixing it with juice, a practice that often led to blindness or death.

Louisiana’s John Fred & His Playboys had a hit with “Judy in Disguise” which was a parody of the Beatles “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”.

I still remember to this day first seeing Sly and The Family Stone on the Woodstock movie. Oh boy I thought what incredible music and “Dance To The Music” is indelibly printed on my brain. The Small Faces was formed by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane and they wrote their first hit “Itchycoo Park” They were later known as the Faces, Rod Stewart’s backing band.

Nineteen and Sixty – Seven

• 007 (Shanty Town) – Desmond Dekker
• (Sittin’ On) The Dock of The Bay – Otis Redding
• (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman – Aretha Franklin
• (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher – Jackie Wilson
• A Day in the Life – The Beatles
• A Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum
• Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (Duet with Tammi Terrell) – Marvin Gaye
• Alabama Song – The Doors
• Alice’s Restaurant Massacree – Arlo Guthrie
• All Strung Out Over You – The Chambers Brothers
• All You Need Is Love – The Beatles
• Alone Again Or – Love
• Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie – Jay & The Techniques
• Are You Gonna’ Be There – The Chocolate Watchband
• B.B. King Medley: Sweet Little Angel/It’s My Own Fault – B B King*
• Baby, Now That I’ve Found You – The Foundations
• Beg, Borrow and Steal – Ohio Express
• Bend It – Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
• Big Time Operator – Jeff St John & The Id*
• Blue Jay Way – The Beatles
• Boogaloo Down Broadway – The Fantastic Johnny C
• Born Under a Bad Sign – Albert King
• Break On Through – The Doors
• Broadway Walk – Bobby Womack
• Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison*
• Burning of the Midnight Lamp – Jimi Hendrix
• By The Time I Get to Phoenix – Glen Campbell
• Chain Of Fools – Aretha Franklin
• Conquistador – Procol Harum
• Cool Jerk – The Capitals
• Corn Cob Blues – John Hartford
• Country Boy and Bleecker Street – HP Lovecraft
• Dance to the Music – Sly and The Family Stone
• Dear Mr. Fantasy – Traffic
• Death Sound Blues -Country Joe & The Fish
• Dedicated To the One I Love – The Mamas & The Papas
• Don’t Pity Me – Curly Moore
• Double Trouble – John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
• Droppin’ Out – Paul Butterfield Band
• Drunkards Sorrow Waltz – The Balfa Brothers
• Easy Rider – Big Brother & The Holding Company
• Everlovin’ Man (Live) – The Loved Ones
• Excerpt from a Teenage Opera – Keith West
• Expressway to Your Heart – Te Soul Survivors
• Fare Thee Well Blues- Joe Callicot
• Fire – The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
• Flowers In the Rain – The Move
• Get Together – The Youngbloods
• Get Your Head Happy – Champion Jack Dupree and Tony McPhee
• Gimme Little Sign – Brenton Wood
• Gimme Some Lovin’ – The Spencer Davis Group
• Git Out – Mitty Collier
• Groovin’ – The Young Rascals
• Happy Together – The Turtles
• Harry Rag – 69ers*
• Heatwave – Somebody’s Image
• Heroin – The Velvet Underground
• Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix
• Hole In My Shoe – Traffic
• Hot Tamales, Pt 1- The Prime Mates
• I Am the Walrus – The Beatles
• I Can See for Miles – The Who*
• I Feel Free – Cream
• I Found Love – Wilson Pickett
• I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) – Aretha Franklin
• I Say a Little Prayer – Aretha Franklin
• I Second That Emotion – Smokey Robinson
• I Shall Not Care – Pearls Before Swine
• I Think We’re Alone Now – Tommy James and The Shondells
• I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl – Nina Simone
• I Want to Know – Ten Years After
• I’d Rather Go Blind – Etta James
• I’m A Man – The Spencer Davis Group
• I’m Waiting for The Man – The Velvet Underground
• Incense and Peppermints – Strawberry Alarm Clock
• Interstellar Overdrive – Pink Floyd
• Itchycoo Park – The Small Faces
• Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Presley
• Judy in Disguise (with Glasses) – John Fred & His Playboys
• Keep On Dancing – The Gentrys
• Kind of a Drag – The Buckinghams
• Knock On Wood – Eddie Floyd
• Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) – The Hombres
• Light My Fire – The Doors
• Little Wing – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Love Me Two Times – The Doors
• Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles
• Mellow Yellow – Donovan*
• Mini-Skirt Minnie – Sir Mack Rice
• More Love – The Miracles
• Mr. Blues – Hank Crawford
• On The Road Again – Canned Heat*
• Oogum Boogum Song – Brenton Wood
• Painting Box – The Incredible String Band
• Paper Sun – Traffic
• Penny Lane – The Beatles
• Piece of My Heart – Erma Franklin
• Porterville – The Golliwogs
• Postcard from Jamaica – Sopwith Camel
• Puppet On a String – Sandie Shaw
• Purple Haze – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Ram Jam – Jackie Mitto
• Randy Scouse Git – The Monkees
• Reach Out I’ll Be There – The Four Tops
• Respect – Aretha Franklin
• Rollin’ And Tumblin’ – Canned Heat
• Ruby Tuesday – The Rolling Stones*
• San Franciscan Nights – Eric Burdon & The Animals
• Seven and Seven Is – Love
• She’s Not There – Vanilla Fudge
• Slide Machine – The 13^th Floor Elevators
• Snowy Wood – John Mayeel &The Bluesbreakers
• So Long, Marianne – Leonard Cohen*
• Some Velvet Morning – Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
• Somebody Loan Me a Dime – Fenton Robinson
• Somebody to Love – Jefferson Airplane
• Sometimes You Have to Cry – Sam Baker
• Soul Finger – The Bar-Keys
• Soul Man – Sam & Dave
• Stag-O-Lee – Wilson Pickett
• Strange Brew – Cream
• Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles
• Summer Wine – Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
• Sunshine Of Your Love – Cream
• Sunshine Superman – Donovan
• Suzanne – Leonard Cohen
• Sweet Soul Music – Arthur Conley
• Talking Dust Bowl Blues – Ramblin’ Jack Elliott*
• Tell Mama – Etta James
• The Changeling – The Doors
• The Days of Pearly Spencer – David McWilliams
• The End – The Doors
• The Fish’ Cheer/l-Feel-Like-l’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag – County Joe & the Fish
• The Fool on The Hill – The Beatles
• The Letter Song – The Vibrants
• The Letter – The Box Tops
• The Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson
• The Time Machine – HP Lovecraft
• These Days – Nico
• Tighten Up – Archie Bell and The Drells
• Time Will Come – Tol-Puddle Martyrs
• Tin Soldier – The Small Faces
• Train for Tomorrow – The Electric Prunes
• Transparent Day – The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
• Two Bugs and A Roach – Earl Hooker
• Un autre soir d’ennui (Another Lonely Night) – Belton Richard
• Up – Up and Away – The 5^th Dimension
• Venus In Furs – The Velvet Underground & Nico
• Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks
• What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
• What Will I Tell the Children – Juke Boy Bonner
• When The Music’s Over – The Doors
• White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane
• With A Little Help from My Friends – The Beatles
• You Keep Me Hangin’ On – Vanilla Fudge
• Your Mother Should Know – The Beatles Your Precious Love – Marvin Gaye & Tam
• * Seen Play Live – Also seen a version of The Doors in 2005 with Ian Astbury on vocals.

Boy, the lists are getting longer with each passing year. Music is becoming really important to me as I get older. I think you may have realised by now that I cross over to many genres. You miss out on a lot of great music if you stick to the one style of music.

Studio & Recording Advancements

• Automatic Double Tracking (ADT): Developed at Abbey Road by Ken Townsend for The Beatles, this allowed vocals to be “doubled” automatically, saving singers from manual re-recording.
• Tape Loops & Varispeed: Artists began using manipulated tape loops and varying tape speeds (varispeed) to create “otherworldly” textures, most notably on “Tomorrow Never Knows”.
• Backmasking: 1966 saw the first significant use of reversed vocals and instruments (backward tapes) in pop music, specifically in The Beatles’ “Rain”.
• Close Miking: Engineers began placing microphones closer to instruments (such as drums and acoustic guitars) to achieve a more “intimate” and punchy sound. 

Genre Evolution & Instrumental Shifts

• Birth of Psychedelic Rock: Landmark tracks like The Yardbirds’ “Shapes of Things” and The Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” pioneered distorted guitar tones and modal improvisation.
• Raga Rock: The integration of Indian classical music became a trend, with The Rolling Stones featuring the sitar on a #1 hit (“Paint It Black”) and The Beatles exploring Hindustani structures on “Love You To”.
• Symphonic Pop & High Production: Brian Wilson’s production on The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds set a new standard for complex arrangements, utilizing orchestral instruments and unusual sound effects in a pop context.
• Concept & Double Albums: The Mothers of Invention released Freak Out!, one of the first double albums and an early example of a rock concept album. 

Technological & Industry Changes

• Portable Radios & Amplification: The rise of solid-state technology made portable transistor radios common. Larger PA systems and higher-wattage amplifiers were introduced to handle growing concert crowds.
• The Synthesizer: While invented earlier, the Buchla modular synthesizer began commercial sales in 1966, providing a new palette for electronic music.
• FM Rock Radio: New York’s WOR-FM became the first station to adopt a rock format, leading a shift away from strictly Top 40 AM radio toward “freeform” broadcasting.
• The Radiorecorder: The precursor to the “boombox” was invented by Philips in 1966. 

Just as drugs was going hand in hand with the music scene Paul Revere and the Raiders released the anti-drug song “Kicks”. Sam and Dave’s hit “Hold On I’m Coming” was banned by some radio sations because of its supposed sex references. The same for Ray Charles’ song “Let’s Get Stoned” for drug reasons. Has there ever been a more pleading love song than Percy Sledge”s “When A Man Loves A Woman”. Sledge was a hospital orderly and part-time singer when the song became the first #1 Southern Soul hit.

Let me know in the comments what the initials in the Joe Tex Song “S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song) stand for . The Grateful Dead were originally called the Warlocks (Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir).

The Song 96 Tears band name ? & The Mysterians is not a typo! It only took one song, the organ-driven number one smash “96 Tears,” to make ? ((Rudy Martínez) & the Mysterians into garage rock legends. Eccentric frontman Question Mark (actually spelled “?,” once he had his name legally changed) cultivated an aura of mystery by never appearing in public without a pair of wraparound sunglasses; he frequently claimed he had been born on Mars and lived among the dinosaurs in a past life, and that voices from the future had revealed he would be performing “96 Tears” in the year 10,000. On a more earthly level, the Mysterians’ sound helped lay down an important part of the garage rock blueprint, namely the low-budget sci-fi feel of the Farfisa and Vox organs (most assumed that “96 Tears” had featured the former, but ? later remembered using the latter). What was more, they were one of the first Latino rock groups to have a major hit, and ?‘s sneering attitude made him one of the prime suspects in the evolution of garage rock into early punk.** The keyboard player Frankie Rodríguez was only 14 years of age!

The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” was their first stab at the every increasingly popular Psych Rock. “Crosscut Saw” was the first major label Stax hit for the legendary Bluesman Albert King. Stax did not give him any royalties for 8 years so he left them. The song has became a classic and has been recorded by artists such as  Eric Clapton, who popularized it further in rock. Other notable artists covering the track include Stevie Ray Vaughan, R.L. Burnside, Lonnie Brooks, Otis Rush, Earl Hooker, and modern blues guitarists like Tab Benoit and Robben Ford.

‘Gimme Some Lovin” Spencer Davis Group was written by the 17 year-old Steve Winwood. Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” was their third single and was written by Steve Stills.

nineteen and sixty-six

• (We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet – The Blues Magoos
  19th Nervous Breakdown – The Rolling Stones*
  96 Tears – ? & The Mysterians
  All Or Nothing – Small Faces
  All Your Love – John Mayall*
  Allergic To Work – Crosscut Saw
  Barefootin’ – Robert Parker*
  Batman Theme – Link Wray & The RayMen
  Bend It – Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
  Black is Black – Los Bravos
  But It’s Alright – JJ. Jackson
  California Dreaming – The Mamas & The Papas
  Can’t Satisfy -The Impressions
  Cool Jerk – The Capitols
  Crosscut Saw – Albert King
  Day Tripper – The Beatles
  Daydream – The Lovin’ Spoonful
  Devil with a Blue Dress On -Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
  Diddy Wah Diddy – Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  Don’t Ease Me In – Grateful Dead Double
• Crossing Time – John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers & Eric Clapton
  Dry Your Eyes – Brenda & The Tabulations
  East-West – Paul Butterfield Blues Band
  Eight Miles High – The Byrds
  Eleanor Rigby – The Beatles
  Five O’Clock World – The Vogues
  Friday on My Mind – The Easybeats
  Funky Broadway Part – Dyke and the Blazers
  Get Ready – The Temptations
  Getaway – Georgie Fame
  Gimme Some Lovin’ – The Spencer Davis Group
  God Only Knows – The Beach Boys
  Good Lovin’ – The Young Rascals
  Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys
  Green Green Grass of Home – Tom Jones*
  He’ll Be Back – The Players
  Hey Leroy, Your Mama’s Callin’ You – Jimmy Castor
  High Flyin’ Bird – Richie Havens
  Hitch Hiker – Bobby & Laurie*
  Hold on I’m Comin’ – Sam & Dave
  Holy Cow – Lee Dorsey
  How Can We Hang on To a Dream – Tim Hardin
  I Can’t Quit You Baby – Otis Rush
  I Feel Free – Cream
  I Fooled You This Time – Gene Chandler
  I Had Too Much to Dream – The Electric Prunes 
  I’ll Be Lovin’ You Forever – The 5th Dimension
  I’II Make You Happy – The Easybeats
  I’m A Believer – The Monkees
  I’m A Boy – The Who*
  In The Midnight Hour – Wilson Pickett
  It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World – James Brown
  I’ve Got the Blues – Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs*
  Just A Little Misunderstanding – The Contours
  Just Like a Woman – Bob Dylan*
  Keep On Running – The Spencer Davis Group
  Kicks – Paul Revere & The Raiders
  Knock on Wood – Eddie Floyd
  Land Of 1000 Dances – Wilson Pickett
  Let’s Go Get Stoned – Ray Charles*
  Li’l Red Riding Hood – Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs
  Little Girl – Syndicate of Sound
  Pretty Flamingo – Manfred Mann
  Mercy, Mercy, Mercy – Cannonball Adderley
  Mercy, Mercy – Don Covay & The Goodtimers
  Monday, Monday – The Mamas & The Papas
  Morningtown Ride – The Seekers
  Ninety-Nine and One-Half – Wilson Pickett
   No Milk Today – Herman’s Hermits
  No- No- No- No- No -Billy Boy Arnold
  Omar Khayyam – The Rubaiyats
  Out of Time – Chris Farlowe
  Paint It, Black – The Rolling Stones
  Papa’s Got a Brand-New Bag – James Brown
  Paperback Writer – The Beatles
  Pass The Hatchet – Roger & the Gypsies
  Pay Day – Mississippi John Hurt
  Pretty Flamingo – Manfred Mann
  Psychotic Reaction – The Count Five
  Pushin’ Too Hard – The Seeds
  Reach Out I’ll Be There – The Four Tops
  Right Track – Billy Butler
  River Deep Mountain High – Ike & Tina Turner
  S.Y.S.LJ.F.M.(The Letter Song) – Joe Tex
  Sally Free and Easy – Bert Jansch
  Season Of the Witch – Donovan*
  Semi-Detached, Suburban Mr. James – Manfred Mann
  Shapes Of Things – The Yardbirds
  She Comes in Colors – Love
  Sitting In the Rain – John Mayall &The Bluesbreakers
  Sloop John B – The Beach Boys
  Somebody Help Me – The Spencer Davis Group
  Someone To Love – The Great! Society
  Spann’s Boogie – Otis Spann
  Stop Stop Stop – The Hollies
  Stop! In The Name of Love – The Supremes
  Talk Talk – The Music Machine
  Tell It Like It Is – Aaron Neville*
  The Jerk – The ID Featuring Jeff St. John*
  The La La Man – Oliver Morgan
  The Mojo Boogie – J. B. Lenoir
  The Sound of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel
  The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore – The Walker Brothers
  Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye – The Casinos
  They’re Coming to Take Me Away – Napoleon XIV
  This Old Heart of Mine – The Isley Brothers
  Time Has Come Today – The Chambers Brothers
   Try A Little Tenderness – Otis Redding
  Visions Of Johanna – Bob Dylan
  Wedding Ring – The Easybeats
  What Becomes of The Brokenhearted – Jimmy Ruffin
  When a Man Loves a Woman – Percy Sledge
  Wild Thing – The Troggs
  With A Girl Like You – The Troggs
  Working in the Coal Mine – Lee Dorsey
  Wouldn’t It Be Nice – The Beach Boys
  You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me – Dusty Springfield
  You’re Gonna Miss Me – The 13th Floor Elevators
• *Seen perform live
• ** Alll Music Guide https://www.allmusic.com
   
   

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