The Essential Songs of 1967 prove that the year was much more than the “Summer of Love.” Steppenwolf introduced the phrase “heavy metal” to music listeners, Sly and the Family Stone became one of the first popular racially integrated bands, and Jimi Hendrix was teaching electric guitars to play sonic assaults that they did not know were possible. The Beatles released a decent album that year, as well.
Ain't No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Alone Again Or – Love
Are You Experienced? – Jimi Hendrix
Arnold Layne – Pink Floyd
Baby I Love You – Aretha Franklin
Baby, Now That I Found You – Foundations
Beck’s Bolero – Jeff Beck
Bend Me, Shape Me – The American Breed
Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf
Break On Through – Doors
Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
By The Time I Get To Phoenix – Glen Campbell
Care of Cell 44 – Zombies
Chain of Fools – Aretha Franklin
Cold Sweat (Part I) – James Brown
Dance to the Music – Sly & the Family Stone
Dark End of the Street – James Carr
David Watts – The Kinks
A Day in The Life – Beatles
Daydream Believer – The Monkees
Death of a Clown – Dave Davies
Different Drum – Stone Poneys
Flowers in the Rain – The Move
For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield
Friday on My Mind – The Easybeats
Gentle On My Mind Glen Campbell
Happy Together Turtles
Heroes and Villains- Beach Boys
Heroin – Velvet Underground
(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher – Jackie Wilson
I Am The Walrus Beatles
I Can See for Miles – The Who
I’m Waiting for the Man – Velvet Underground
I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) – Aretha Franklin
I Second That Emotion – Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
I Was Made to Love Her – Stevie Wonder
I’d Rather Go Blind – Etta James
Itchycoo Park – The Small Faces
I’ve Been Lonely Too Long – Young Rascals
Jackson – Johnny Cash with June Carter Cash
Let’s Spend the Night Together – Rolling Stones
The Letter – Box Tops
Light My Fire – Doors
Love Me Two Times – The Doors
Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles
More Love – Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Mr. Soul – Buffalo Springfield
My Back Pages – The Byrds
(You May Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman – Aretha Franklin
Nights In White Satin – Moody Blues
(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet – Blues Magoos
Ode to Billy Joe – Bobbie Gentry
Penny Lane – Beatles
Pleasant Valley Sunday – The Monkees
Pop A Top – Jim Ed Brown
Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix
Respect – Aretha Franklin
She’s Leaving Home – The Beatles
So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star – The Byrds
Somebody To Love – Jefferson Airplane
Soul Man – Sam and Dave
Strawberry Fields Forever Beatles
Suzanne – Leonard Cohen
Tears Of A Clown – Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
There’s A Kind of Hush – Herman’s Hermits
To Sir With Love – Lulu
Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks
When I Was Young – Eric Burdon and the Animals
White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane
Whiter Shade Of Pale – Procol Harum
With A Little Help From My Friends – Beatles
Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad – Tammy Wynette