Wednesday 13 January 2010

The Wonder Years : 1967


  1. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
  2. The Who - I Can See for Miles
  3. The Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror
  4. The Chocolate Watch Band - Let's Talk About Girls
  5. Cream - Swlabr
  6. The Beatles - Penny Lane
  7. Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
  8. The Small Faces - Tin Soldier
  9. The Box Tops - The Letter
  10. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man
  11. The Turtles - Happy Together
  12. Buffalo Springfield - Mr. Soul
  13. Caetano Veloso - Alegria, Alegria
  14. Country Joe & The Fish - Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
  15. Doors - People Are Strange
  16. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
  17. Love - Bummer In The Summer
  18. The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday
  19. Moby Grape - Changes
  20. Traffic - Hole In My Shoe
  21. The Bar-Kays - House Shoes
  22. Bob Dylan - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
  23. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
  24. Nico - The Fairest of the Seasons
  25. Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster 1941
  26. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

The musical Hair premieres Off-Broadway, The Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France, BBC Radio 1 is launched.

Desmond Morris publishes The Naked Ape, In Gibraltar, only 44 out of 12,182 voters support union with Spain, Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to.

We said hello to Kurt Cobain, Evan Dando, Billy Corgan, Will Ferrell, Michael Johnson & Nicole Kidman.

We said goodbye to Vivien Leigh, Dorothy Parker, Woody Guthrie, Che Guevara, John Coltrane & Otis Redding.

Drugs were invented in this year, a few people take them but generally they don’t catch on. Yes 1967, the Summer of Love. Here’s our pick of the tunes of the year. Believe us, this could’ve been a 10CD Box Set. Enjoy….

1967

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