the summer of love 1967

We are now in the Dark Ages of music. Back then the top hits were good!

Good tunes wineturtle, Good Vibrations still makes me feel good after all those years. I was seven years old when that song came out !

Music during that era was the best. Music today sucks.

Good Vibes came out in 66 in the UK - it should have appeared on Pet Sounds.

There are any number of songs from "Forever Changes" by Love that could be on that list, including "Alone Again Or," A House is Not A Motel," "Between Clark and Hillsdale," and "You Set The Scene"

Born in 67 wrote:

Music during that era was the best. Music today sucks.

You are old, senile and don't know any better.

Branch out from the radio.

runn wrote:

We are now in the Dark Ages of music. Back then the top hits were good!

Are you really that stupid?

Number one hits of 1967-

December 31, 1966 - February 17: I'm A Believer The Monkees

February 18 - March 3: Kind Of A Drag - The Buckinghams

March 4 - March 10: Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones

March 11 - March 17: Love is Here and Now You're Gone - The Supremes

March 18 - March 24: Penny Lane - The Beatles

March 25 - April 14: Happy Together - The Turtles

April 15 - May 12: Somethin' Stupid - Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra

May 13 - May 19: The Happening - The Supremes

May 20 - June 2: Groovin' - The Young Rascals

June 3 - June 30: Respect - Aretha Franklin

July 1 - July 28: Windy - The Association

July 29 - August 28: Light My Fire - The Doors

August 19 - August 25: All You Need Is Love - The Beatles

August 26 - September 22: Ode To Billy Joe - Bobbie Gentry

September 23 - October 20: The Letter - Box Tops

October 21 - November 24: To Sir With Love - Lulu

November 25 - December 1: Incense And Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock

December 2 - December 29: Daydream Believer - The Monkees

December 30, 1967 - January 19, 1968: Hello Goodbye - The Beatles

Sorry for the typo- it is ofcourse Walt Murphy who linked us.

Another batch of 13 out of the oven

whiter shade-procol

san fran wear flowers-scott mac

tracks of my tears-johnny rivers

don't sleep subway-pet clark

lets live for today-grassroots

silence is golden-tremelos

somebody to love- jeff air

up up away-5th demension

carrieann-hollies

sunday will never be the same-spaky&gang

words of love- momma& poppas but really all cass

love me tender- percy sledge

7 rooms doom-4tops

your turn to think 1967...

Starting around 1966, there was very little resemblance between "Top 40" and the best songs of the era. The best acts became "album-oriented," and there might be six or seven songs on an album that were pretty than any "singles." So a look at the "top hits" of the day does not reflect the quality of the era. Jimi Hendrix did not have "hits." Neither did Cream, except for "Sunshine of Your Love."

Great post wineturtle! I was 6 years old, and the family vacation that summer was a trip to Florida in a station wagon and all those songs were on the radio both ways.

In Chicago you heard these on WLS and WCFL.

The Buckinghams- Kind of a drag

The Cryan Shames- Sugar and Spice

How about the Hollies, Carrie Ann? Good stuff, keep em coming!

Sorry little kid, you're ignorant- not stupid, just too young to know any better.

Young kids today walk around with those stupid little head phones with the tinny sound- and as far as the music, they might as well be listening to their s**t as it's flushed down the toilet.

God- the 70's were better than the crap they listen to now.

this was number 1's in the Uk and how long they were on top

3 Dec Tom Jones Green Grass Of Home 7

21 Jan The Monkees I'm A Believer 4

18 Feb Petula Clark This Is My Song 2

4 Mar Engelbert Humperdinck Release Me 6

15 Apr Frank & Nancy Sinatra Something Stupid 2

29 Apr Sandie Shaw Puppet On A String 3

20 May The Tremeloes Silence Is Golden 3

10 Jun Procol Harum A Whiter Shade Of Pale 6

22 Jul The Beatles All You Need Is Love 3

12 Aug Scott McKenzie San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) 4

9 Sep Engelbert Humperdinck The Last Waltz 5

14 Oct The Bee Gees Massachusetts 4

11 Nov The Foundations Baby Now That I've Found You 2

25 Nov Long John Baldry Let The Heartaches Begin 2

9 Dec The Beatles Hello Goodbye

other greats

Cat Stevens - Matthew and Son

Spencer Davis Group - I'm a Man

The Move - Flowers in the Rain

Small Faces - Itchycoo Park

PP Arnold - First Cut is the Deepest

Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe/Purple Haze/The Wind Cries Mary

Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

The Equals - Baby Come Back

there are so many

The summer of love was in 1968.

Just put "summer of love" as the search string for Google and hit enter.

1967 it was (I was there and don't need verification; but for someone who is not old enough to know first-hand, the Google thing provides proof).

Terrible times.

runn wrote:

God- the 70's were better than the crap they listen to now.

That may be true, but the 70's ranged all over the place, from disco (bleechh), to progressive bands like Yes, ELP and King Crimson, to mainstream acts like Journey and Frampton, to punk, to...

Ahh, but '60s, '70s, '80s, there was always Zappa!

Summer of love was 1967. I spent it at Lake Tahoe, training and enjoying Sgt Peppers Lonely hearts club band.

Many great artists would come on the week ends to play.

Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and holding company,etc.

1968 was the bleak year. Robert Kennedy and MLK killed. Riots, demonstrations escalating Vietnam war.

I have fond memories of 1967.

Best band to come together in the '70s was Roxy Music. America has never appreciated them as much as Britain did.

It was over by 1968