The Supremes were back on the top of both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box record charts for the week of May 6 – 13, 1967. This time their number one was “The Happening.” It was the title song of a very poor movie by the same name. Although it wasn’t well received, it …
The Monkees were back again with another hit with “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You.” The song was written by Neil Diamond as he was just beginning his singing career. Music producer Don Kirshner had Davy Jones record the song with a group of studio musicians and none of the rest of The Monkees …
The next song to go to the top of the record charts in 1967 was not a rock song. “Somethin’ Stupid” was written by C. Carson Parks who recorded it in 1966 with his wife, Gaile Foote. Their version went nowhere but Frank Sinatra heard the song and made it a hit with his daughter …
“Happy Together” would knock The Beatles out of the number one spot on the record charts in 1967. The Turtles first got together in 1965 as The Crossfires. They achieved breakthrough success with a cover of a Bob Dylan song, “It Ain’t Me Babe” which reached #8 in late summer of 1965. The group had …
The Beatles were back with another hit song with “Penny Lane” in 1967. The song was written primarily by Paul McCartney but credited to Lennon and McCartney. Penny Lane is a street near Lennon’s childhood home. You will notice that in the music video there buses with “Penny Lane” displayed as it was a bus …