HIGHLIGHTS OF 1967 BILLBOARD LIST OF #1'S FOLLOWS EVENTS World Events World Statistics Population: 3.485 billion Biafra secedes from Nigeria (May). Israeli and Arab forces battle; Six-Day War ends with Israel occupying Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and West Bank (June 5). Right-wing military coup deposes King Constantine II of Greece. Communist China announces explosion of its first hydrogen bomb (June 17). The US and USSR propose a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. More History... U.S. Events U.S. Statistics President: Lyndon B. Johnson Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey Population: 198,712,056 Life expectancy: 70.5 years Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 29.9 Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 27.4 Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 6.8 Racial violence in Detroit; 7,000 National Guardsmen aid police after night of rioting. Similar outbreaks in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Rochester, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., and New Britain, Conn. (July 23). Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black US Supreme Court justice (Oct. 2). Astronauts Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee killed in fire during test launch (Jan. 27). Economics US GDP (1998 dollars): $833.6 billion Federal spending: $157.46 billion Federal debt: $340.4 billion Median Household Income (current dollars): $7,143 Consumer Price Index: 33.4 Unemployment: 3.8% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05 Sports Super Bowl Green Bay d. Kansas City (35-10) World Series St. Louis Cardinals d. Boston Red Sox (4-3) NBA Championship Philadelphia 76ers d. SF Warriors (4-2) Stanley Cup Toronto d. Montreal (4-2) Wimbledon Women: Billie Jean King d. A. Jones (6-3 6-4) Men: John Newcombe d. W. Bungert (6-3 6-1 6-1) Kentucky Derby Champion Proud Clarion NCAA Basketball Championship UCLA d. Dayton (79-64) NCAA Football Champions USC (10-1-0) Pulitzer Prizes Fiction: The Fixer, Bernard Malamud Music: Quartet No. 3, Leon Kirchner Drama: A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee Oscars awarded in 1967 Academy Award, Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons, Fred Zinnemann, producer (Columbia) Nobel Prize for Literature: Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala) Miss America: Jane Anne Jayroe (OK) Events Congress creates PBS. Rolling Stone and New York Magazine debut, spawning the popularity of special-interest and regional magazines. Movies The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, In the Heat of the Night, Cool Hand Luke Music The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Books Donald Barthelme, Snow White Elizabeth Bishop, Selected Poems Robert Bly, The Light Around the World Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America Stanley Elkin, A Bad Man W. S. Merwin, Lice Marianne Moore, Complete Poems Joyce Carol Oates, A Garden of Earthly Delights Science Nobel Prizes in Science Chemistry: Manfred Eigen (Germany), Ronald G. W. Norrish, and George Porter (both UK), for work in high-speed chemical reactions Physics: Hans A. Bethe (US), for work on energy production of stars Physiology or Medicine: Haldan K. Hartline, George Wald, and Ragnar Granit (all US), for work on human eye Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell Burnel (UK) discover pulsars. Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall, Richard Taylor (US) discover protons and neutrons to be composed of even smaller particles called quarks. The MIRV (Multiple Indepenently Targetable Reetry Vehicle), which allows one missile to carry several nuclear warheads, is developed. Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons perform world's first successful human heart transplant (Dec. 3). The patient dies 18 days later. Deaths Ernesto "Che" Guevara Spencer Tracy Woody Guthrie Langston Hughes Alice B. Toklas John Coltrane 1. To Sir With Love, Lulu 2. Happy Together, The Turtles 3. Windy, Association 4. Ode To Billie Joe, Bobby Gentry 5. I'm A Believer, The Monkees 6. Light My Fire, The Doors 7. Somethin' Stupid, Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra 8. The Letter, Box Tops 9. Groovin', Young Rascals 10. Kind Of A Drag, Buckinghams 11. Little Bit O' Soul, Music Explosion 12. I Think We're Alone Now, Tommy James and The Shondells 13. Respect, Aretha Franklin 14. I Was Made To Love Her, Stevie Wonder 15. Come Back When You Grow Up, Bobby Vee and The Strangers 16. Sweet Soul Music, Arthur Conley 17. Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Frankie Valli 18. Never My Love, Association 19. Soul Man, Sam and Dave 20. Expressway To Your Heart, Soul Survivors 21. Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie, Jay and The Techniques 22. Come On Down To My Boat, Every Mothers' Son 23. Incense And Peppermints, Strawberry Alarm Clock 24. Ruby Tuesday, The Rolling Stones 25. It Must Be Him, Vicki Carr 27. For What It's Worth, Buffalo Springfield 28. Gimme Little Sign, Brenton Wood 28. Love Is Here And Now You're Gone, Supremes 29. The Happening, Supremes 30. All You Need Is Love, Beatles 31. Release Me (And Let Me Love Again), Engelbert Humperdinck 32. Your Precious Love, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell 33. Somebody To Love, Jefferson Airplane 34. Get On Up, Esquires 35. Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison 36. Jimmy Mack, Martha and The Vandella 37. I Got Rhythm, Happenings 38. A Whiter Shade Of Pale, Procol Harum 39. Don't You Care, Buckinghams 40. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, Casinos 41. Reflections, Diana Ross and The Supremes 42. On A Carousel, Hollies 43. Please Love Me Forever, Bobby Vinton 44. Alfie, Dionne Warwick 45. San Francisco, Scott Mckenzie 46. Silence Is Golden, Tremeloes 47. My Cup Runneth Over, Ed Ames 48. Up, Up And Away, Fifth Dimension 49. The Rain, The Park And Other Things, Cowsills 50. There's A Kind Of Hush, Herman's Hermits 51. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Buckinghams 52. This Is My Song, Petula Clark 53. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher, Jackie Wilson 54. I've Been Lonely Too Long, Young Rascals 55. Penny Lane, Beatles 56. You're My Everything, Temptations 57. Georgy Girl, Seekers 58. Western Union, Five Americans 59. Baby I Love You, Aretha Franklin 60. A Little Bit You, A Little Bit Me, The Monkees 61. California Nights, Lesley Gore 62. Dedicated To The One I Love, Mama's and The Papa's 63. How Can I Be Sure, Young Rascals 64. Carrie Ann, Hollies 65. (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet, Blue Magoos 66. Friday On My Mind, Easy Beats 67. Soul Finger, Bar-Kays 68. Gimme Some Lovin', Spencer Davis Group 69. Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out), Hombres 70. Let's Live For Today, The Grass Roots 71. Close Your Eyes, Peaches and Herb 72. Groovin', Booker T and The MG's 73. Funky Broadway, Wilson Pickett 74. Pleasant Valley Sunday, The Monkees 75. I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You), Aretha Franklin 76. Tell It Like It Is, Aaron Neville 77. Cold Sweat, James Brown and The Famous Flames 78. She'd Rather Be With Me, The Turtles 79. 98.6, Keith 80. Here We Go Again, Ray Charles 81. White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane 82. Here Comes My Baby, Tremeloes 83. The Beat Goes On, Sonny and Cher 84. Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron, Royal Guardsmen 85. Society's Child, Janis Ian 86. Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon, Neil Diamond 87. I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night, Electric Prunes 88. Mirage, Tommy James and The Shondells 89. Bernadette, Four Tops 90. Everlasting Love, Robert Knight 91. I Dig Rock And Roll Music, Peter, Paul and Mary 92. Litle Ole Man (Uptight-Everything's Alright), Bill Cosby 93. Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell 94. Daydream Believer, The Monkees 95. Thank The Lord For The Night Time, Neil Diamond 96. I Take It Back, Sandy Posey 97. Green, Green Grass Of Home, Tom Jones 98. I Can See For Miles, The Who 99. Don't Sleep In The Subway, Petula Clark 100. Baby I Need Your Lovin', Johnny Rivers a name="67g">1967 Grammy Awards Record of the Year “Up, Up and Away,” 5th Dimension Album of the Year Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (Capitol) Song of the Year “Up, Up and Away,” Jimmy L. Webb, songwriter Best New Artist Bobbie Gentry Best Vocal Performance, Male “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” Glen Campbell Best Vocal Performance, Female “Ode to Billie Joe,” Bobbie Gentry Best Performance By a Vocal Group (Two to Six Persons) “Up, Up and Away,” 5th Dimension Best Performance By a Chorus (Seven or More Persons) “Up, Up and Away,” Johnny Mann Singers Best Contemporary Single “Up, Up and Away,” 5th Dimension Best Contemporary Album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (Capitol) Best Contemporary Male Solo Vocal Performance “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” Glen Campbell Best Contemporary Female Solo Vocal Performance “Ode to Billie Joe,” Bobbie Gentry Best Contemporary Group Performance, Vocal or Instrumental “Up, Up and Away,” 5th Dimension Best Rhythm and Blues Recording “Respect,” Aretha Franklin (Atlantic) Best Rhythm and Blues Solo Vocal Performance, Male “Dead End Street,” Lou Rawls Best Rhythm and Blues Solo Vocal Performance, Female “Respect,” Aretha Franklin Best Rhythm and Blues Group Performance, Vocal or Instrumental (Two or More) “Soul Man,” Sam and Dave Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Cannonball Adderley Quintet Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group “Far East Suite,” Duke Ellington Best Country and Western Song “Gentle on My Mind” John Hartford, songwriter Best Country and Western Recording “Gentle on My Mind,” Glen Campbell (Capitol) Best Country and Western Solo Vocal Performance, Male “Gentle on My Mind,” Glen Campbell Best Country and Western Solo Vocal Performance, Female “I Don't Wanna Play House,” Tammy Wynette Best Country and Western Performance, Duet, Trio or Group (Vocal or Instrumental) “Jackson,” Johnny Cash and June Carter Best Gospel Performance More Grand Old Gospel, Porter Wagoner and the Blackwood Brothers Best Sacred Performance How Great Thou Art, Elvis Presley Best Folk Performance “Gentle on My Mind,” John Hartford Best Instrumental Arrangement Alfie, Burt Bacharach, arranger Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) or Instrumentalist(s) “Ode to Billie Joe,” Jimmie Haskell, arranger Best Instrumental Theme “Mission: Impossible,” Lalo Schifrin, composer Best Instrumental Performance “Chet Atkins Picks the Best,” Chet Atkins Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album Cabaret, Fred Ebb and John Kander, composers (Columbia) Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show “Mission: Impossible,” Lalo Schifrin, composer Album of the Year, Classical (tie) Berg, Wozzeck, Pierre Boulez conducting Paris National Opera; solos: Berry, Strauss, Uhl and Doench (Columbia) Mahler, Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major (“Symphony of a Thousand”), Leonard Bernstein conducting London Symphony Orchestra (Columbia) Best Classical Performance, Orchestra Stravinsky, Firebird and Petrouchka Suites, Igor Stravinsky conducting Columbia Symphony Best Chamber Music Performance West Meets East, Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With or Without Orchestra) Horowitz in Concert, Vladimir Horowitz Best Opera Recording Berg, Wozzeck, Pierre Boulez conducting Paris National Opera; solos: Berry, Strauss, Uhl and Doench (Columbia) Best Classical Choral Performance (tie) Mahler, Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major (“Symphony of a Thousand”), Leonard Bernstein conducting London Symphony Orchestra Orff, Catulli Carmina, Robert Page conducting Temple University Chorus; Eugene Ormandy conducting Philadelphia Orchestra Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Prima Donna, Vol. 2, Leontyne Price; Francesco Molinari-Pradelli conducting RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra Best Comedy Recording Revenge, Bill Cosby (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts) Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording Gallant Men, Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (Capitol) Best Recording for Children Dr Seuss: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Boris Karloff (MGM) Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, art directors (Capitol) Best Album Cover, Photography Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Roland Scherman, photographer; John Berg and Bob Cato, art directors (Columbia) Best Album Notes Suburban Attitudes in Country Verse, John O. Loudermilk, annotator (RCA)