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July 28th

Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicta) is closed down in England.Folk heroes Simon and Garfunkel decided to put one over on all the great minds in radio with their latest release.Back then, the general way...

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July 29th

The Monkees' scheduled appearance at Olympia Stadium in Detroit, MI, is cancelled due to rioting and an enforced curfew.  The show is rescheduled for an afternoon appearance on August 13th.  With...

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July 30th

The Monkees perform at The Chicago Stadium to a capacity crowd.  The Who perform at The Miami Beach Convention Hall.  We've got Race Riots in Milwaukee this time where four are killed.  Riots will...

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July 31st

"Light My Fire" by The Doors holds at #1 for a second week while Stevie Wonder moves up a couple of notches into the #2 position with "I Was Made To Love Her".  The two biggest movers within The Top...

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August 1st, 1967

The race riots continue into August, now hitting Washington, DC.  Another Monkees concert is cancelled, this time in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (scheduled for tomorrow night), again due to race rioting.  (It...

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August 2nd

Brand new to The Top 40 this week are "Words" by The Monkees (up 18 places from #48 to #30 … and the flipside of their now Top Ten Hit "Pleasant Valley Sunday"), "Thank The Lord For The Night Time" by...

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August 3rd

Top debuts this week belong to The Beach Boys ("Heroes and Villains", #54), Frank Sinatra ("The World We Knew", #67) and "San Franciscan Nights" by Eric Burdon and the Animals (#77).  Also new on the...

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August 4th

Climbing up their way toward The Top 40 we find "Out And About" by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart (#56 to #41), "The River Is Wide" by The Forum (#50 to #42), "Glory Of Love" by Otis Redding (#57 to #44),...

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August 5th

Herman's Hermits perform at Chicago's International Amphitheater.Pink Floyd releases their first album, "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn". It was an auspicious debut, only reaching #131 on Billboard's...

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August 6th

The Cryan' Shames begin their four week run at the top of the Chicagoland Charts this week with "It Could Be We're In Love", a record that never even broke The Top 50 nationally.  Now that's a cryan'...

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August 7th

The Beatles take over the top spot on the Top 100 Singles Chart (as we always knew they would) with their summer anthem "All You Need Is Love".  (Could there be a better Summer Of Love anthem than...

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August 8th

The rest of the Top 40 shapes up like this … "To Love Somebody" by The Bee Gees" is up ten places from #32 to #22, "Heroes And Villains" by The Beach Boys looks like another bonafide hit, climbing from...

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August 9th

A couple of 1967 classics premier on the chart this week … "Reflections" by the now newly re-named Diana Ross and the Supremes debuts at #50 (a touch of Psychedelic Motown???  Gotta keep with the...

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August 10th

Lower chart action this week sees "Come Back When You Grow Up" by Bobby Vee jump 17 places from #59 to #42, "The World We Knew" by Frank Sinatra up 22 spots from #67 to #45, "San Franciscan Nights" by...

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August 11th

Summer reruns means no new episodes of "The Ed Sullivan Show" or "Hollywood Palace" this month.  However the ABC Summer Replacement Series "Picadilly Palace", hosted by Great Britain's comedy team of...

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August 12th

Diana Ross and the Supremes lip-sync their latest hit "Reflections" on "American Bandstand.  (Check out this incredible live version!)The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed at The Ambassador Theatre in...

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August 13th

Fleetwood Mac (then still a blues band) perform their first concert at The National Jazz and Blues Festival in London.  The band had just formed a month earlier when guitarist Peter Green decided to...

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August 14th

The Beatles hold down both the #1 spot on the Top 100 Singles Chart as well as the Top Albums Chart.   "All You Need Is Love" spends its second week at #1 on the singles chart and the Number One Album...

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August 15th

On August 15, 1967, Columbia Records released Billy Joe Royal's recording of a Joe South composition that would send Royal back onto the chart after an absence of nearly a year -- but the song would...

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August 16th

Rounding out The Top 40 (with moves of ten positions or more) are "Fakin' It" by Simon and Garfunkel (up from #38 to #25), "Come Back When You Grow Up" by Bobby Vee (#42 to #29), "Apples, Peaches,...

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