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.