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January 29th
At The Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, The Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin) and Moby Grape performed in the Mantra-Rock Dance Concert that later became...
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January 30th
Other than a little bit of shuffling around within the ranks, The Top Ten remains unchanged from the week before. The Monkees are still holding on to the #1 spot for the sixth straight week. "Georgy...
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Other records earning bullets this week include "The Beat Goes On" by Sonny and Cher (#21, up from #35), "Gimme Some Lovin'" by The Spencer Davis Group (#24, up from #38), "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" by...
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February 1st, 1967
Nancy and Frank Sinatra record their future #1 Hit "Somethin' Stupid" at Western Recorders in Hollywood. It will be the first Father / Daughter #1 Record in chart history. Some found it creepy at...
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Brand new on the chart for the week ending February 4th are "Sock It To Me, Baby" by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, debuting at #74, "Epistle To Dippy" by Donovan, which premiers at #79 and a...
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February 3rd
Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Marvelettes, Aaron Neville and James and Bobby Purify perform at the Civic Coliseum in Knoxville, Tennessee. Dino, Desi and Billy perform on "Where The Action Is"....
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Davy Jones records his vocals for "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You", "She Hangs Out" and four other tracks and then joins Michael Nesmith (and his wife Phyllis), Micky Dolenz and Producer Chip...
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February 5th
Still holding down the top spot we find The Monkees, now in their seventh straight week at #1 with "I'm A Believer". (Songwriter Neil Diamond was reluctant to give this track to The Monkees, feeling...
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February 6th
Johnny Rivers performs on "Where The Action Is" along with his new protégés The Fifth Dimension. Muhammad Ali TKO's Ernie Terell in fifteen rounds to retain the Boxing Heavyweight Title. Micky Dolenz...
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Other hits climbing the chart this week (all with bullets) include "Baby, I Need Your Lovin'" by Johnny Rivers, the biggest mover of the week, climbing forty places from #99 to #59, "Epistle To Dippy"...
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February 8th
Peter and Gordon split up. Peter Asher will go on to produce artists like James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, winning Rolling Stone Magazine's "Producer Of The Year" honor twice. Gordon Waller will do...
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February 9th
This week's biggest premiers include "Pucker Up Buttercup" by Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, which debuts at #70, "There's A Kind Of Hush", the latest by Herman's Hermits, entering the chart at #77,...
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February 10th
Under the direction of Producer George Martin, the orchestration (performed by a 40-piece orchestra) is added to the new Beatles' track "A Day In The Life". Martin later commented that when he told...
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February 11th
After receiving an enormous amount of flack for using studio musicians on their records, The Monkees announce that they will play their own instruments on their next LP. (Have you seen "The Wrecking...
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February 12th
After seven weeks, The Monkees are FINALLY knocked out of the #1 position on the singles chart by Chicago's very own Buckinghams as "Kind Of A Drag" climbs from #3 into the #1 spot. (Incredibly the...
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February 13th
The Supremes appear (along with host Jimmy Durante and guest Jimmy Dean) on an NBC presentation of "The Ice Follies". They perform "Stop! In The Name Of Love" and "You Can't Hurry Love". Tonight's...
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February 14th
Valentine's Day, 1967 finds Aretha Franklin in the recording studio in New York City waxing her future #1 (and signature) Hit "Respect". The Mojo Men are back on "Where The Action Is" this afternoon,...
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February 15th
Tommy Roe appears on "Where The Action Is". In an interview he did with Forgotten Hits last year, Tommy told us he was a semi-regular on the series. Today he performs THREE of his biggest hits …...
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February 16th
Outside The Top 40 … and showing moves of twenty spots or more this week … we've got "There's A Kind Of Hush" by Herman's Hermits (#77 to #51), "Darling Be Home Soon" by The Lovin' Spoonful (#80 to...
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This week's biggest debuts include the new one from Paul Revere and the Raiders, "Ups And Downs", #74, "One More Mountain To Climb" by Ronnie Dove (#78), "No Milk Today" by Herman's Hermits (a Top Ten...
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