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• January 3 - Hullabaloo shows promotional videos of The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
   songs "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out".
• January 8 - Shindig! airs for the last time on ABC, with musical guests the Kinks
  The Kinks
  
  The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
   and the Who
  The Who
  
  The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
  
• January 14 - Young singer David Jones changes his last name to Bowie
  David Bowie
  
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
   to avoid being confused with Davy Jones
  Davy Jones (actor)
  
  Davy Jones is a Grammy winning, England pop music singer-songwriter and Tony-nominated Primetime Emmy Award-nominated actor best known as a member of The Monkees....
   of the Monkees
  The Monkees
  
  The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
  
• January 17 - Simon and Garfunkel
  Simon and Garfunkel
  
  Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
   release Sounds of Silence
  Sounds of Silence
  
  Sounds of Silence may refer to:-* Sounds of Silence , a 1966 album by Simon and Garfunkel* "The Sounds of Silence," a song written by Paul Simon included on the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M....
  , which hits #1 on Billboard charts
• January 21 - Beatle
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
   George Harrison
  George Harrison
  
  George Harrison Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"....
   marries fashion model Pattie Boyd
  Pattie Boyd
  
  Patricia Anne "Pattie" Boyd is an English model and photographer, and the first wife of George Harrison of The Beatles, after whom she married Eric Clapton....
  . The couple met on the set of the Beatles' first movie, A Hard Day's Night
  A Hard Day's Night (film)
  
  A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 Cinema of the United Kingdom comedy film written by Alun Owen starring The Beatles?John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr?during the Beatlemania....
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• January 28 - The Small Faces
  The Small Faces
  
  Small Faces were an England Rock music group from East London, England, heavily influenced by United States rhythm and blues. The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston ....
   release 3rd single "Sha-La-La-La-Lee
  Sha-La-La-La-Lee
  
  "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" was the third song released by England Rhythm and blues influenced group Small Faces on January 28, 1966 reaching number three in the UK Singles Chart....
  " reaching #3 in the UK Singles Chart
  UK Singles Chart
  
  The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
  .
• February 2 - The first edition of Go-Set
  Go-Set
  
  Go-Set was the first Australian rock music magazine, published from early February 1966 until August 1974. Founded in Melbourne by Phillip Frazer and Tony Schauble, it became an influential publication and featured many notable contributors ....
   magazine is published in Melbourne
  Melbourne
  
  Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
  , Australia. Founded by former Monash University
  Monash University
  
  Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Australia. It is Australia's largest university with about 55,000 students.The University has a total of eight campuses: six in Victoria, Australia , one in Monash University Malaysia Campus and one in Monash South Africa....
   students Philip Frazer and Tony Schauble, the new weekly is the first independent periodical in Australia devoted entirely to popular music and youth culture. The inaugural 24-page issue has a cover feature on Tom Jones
  Tom Jones (singer)
  
  Sir Thomas John Woodward Officer of the British Empire , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer-songwriter, particularly noted for his powerful voice and wide vocal range....
  , stories on The Groop, singer Pat Carroll
  Pat Carroll
  
  Pat Carroll may refer to:*Pat Carroll *Pat Carroll *Pat Carroll *Pat Carroll *Pat Carroll *Pat Carroll ...
   and DJ Ken Sparkes and a feature on mod
  Mod (lifestyle)
  
  Mod is a subculture that originated in London in the late 1950s and peaked in the early to mid 1960s.Significant elements of the mod lifestyle included pop music, such as African American Soul music, Jamaican ska, and British beat music and Rhythm and blues; fashion ; and Italian Scooter ....
   fashion by designer Prue Acton
  Prue Acton
  
  Prue Acton, Order of the British Empire is an Australian fashion designer, and is often referred to as Australia's "golden girl" of fashion' during the 60's....
  .
• February 6 - The Animals
  The Animals
  
  The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
   appear a fifth time on The Ed Sullivan Show
  The Ed Sullivan Show
  
  The Ed Sullivan Show is an United States television program variety show that ran from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan....
   to perform their iconic vietnam
  Vietnam
  
  Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
  -anthem
  Anthem
  
  The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music , or more generally, a song of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a distinct group of people, as in the term "national anthem" or "sports anthem"....
  -hit "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
  We Gotta Get out of This Place
  
  "We Gotta Get out of This Place", occasionally written "We've Gotta Get out of This Place", is a rock song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and recorded as a 1965 hit single by The Animals....
  ".
• February 19 - Jefferson Airplane
  Jefferson Airplane
  
  Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
   and Big Brother and the Holding Company
  Big Brother and the Holding Company
  
  Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco, California in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic rock San Francisco Sound that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane....
   with Janis Joplin
  Janis Joplin
  
  Janis Lyn Joplin was an United States singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist....
   perform at the Fillmore
  The Fillmore
  
  The Fillmore is a historic music venue in San Francisco, California, made famous by Bill Graham . Named for its original location at the intersection of Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard, it lies on the boundary of the Western Addition and the Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California neighborhoods....
  
• March 3 - Neil Young
  Neil Young
  
  Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
  , Stephen Stills
  Stephen Stills
  
  Stephen Arthur Stills is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash ....
   and Richie Furay
  Richie Furay
  
  Richie Furay is an United States singer, songwriter, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member who is best known for forming the 1960s band , Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin ....
   form Buffalo Springfield
  Buffalo Springfield
  
  Buffalo Springfield was a short-lived but influential folk rock group that served as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Jim Messina , and is most famous for the song "For What It's Worth "....
   in Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
  
  Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
  .
• March 4 - The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  ' John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
   is quoted in the London
  London
  
  London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
   newspaper, The Evening Standard as saying that the band was now more popular than Jesus
  Jesus
  
  Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
  . In August, following publication of this remark in Datebook, there are Beatles protests and record burnings in the Southern US's "Bible Belt".
• March 6 - In the UK, 5,000 fans of the Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
   sign a petition urging British Prime minister Harold Wilson
  Harold Wilson
  
  James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, Order of the Garter, Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council was one of the most prominent British politicians of the later half of the 20th century....
   to reopen Liverpool
  Liverpool
  
  Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
  's Cavern Club.
• April - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass place 4 albums in Billboard's Top 10. A world record.
• April 12 - In Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
  
  Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
  , Jan Berry, of Jan and Dean
  Jan and Dean
  
  Jan and Dean were a rock and roll duet , popular from the late 1950s through the mid 1960s, consisting of William Jan Berry and Dean Ormsby Torrence ....
  , crashes his Corvette
  Chevrolet Corvette
  
  The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car that has been manufactured by General Motors since 1953. The car was originally designed by Harley Earl, and named by Myron Scott after the fast corvette....
   into a truck that is parked on Whittier Boulevard. Berry suffers total physical paralysis for over a year as well as extensive brain damage.
• April 17 - The Animals
  The Animals
  
  The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
   appear on The Ed Sullivan Show
  The Ed Sullivan Show
  
  The Ed Sullivan Show is an United States television program variety show that ran from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan....
   for the last time.
• May 1 - The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  , The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
   and the Who
  The Who
  
  The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
   perform at the New Musical Express' poll winners' show in London
  London
  
  London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
  . The show is televised, except for The Beatles' and The Stones' segments, as a result of union conflicts.
• May 6 - The Small Faces
  The Small Faces
  
  Small Faces were an England Rock music group from East London, England, heavily influenced by United States rhythm and blues. The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston ....
   release 4th single "Hey Girl
  Hey Girl (Small Faces song)
  
  "Hey Girl" was the fourth song release by popular United Kingdom R&B group Small Faces. The song reached number ten on the UK Singles Charts, 1966....
  " it reaches #10 in UK Singles Chart
  UK Singles Chart
  
  The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
  .
• May 16 - Album Pet Sounds
  Pet Sounds
  
  Pet Sounds is a 1966 in music recorded by United States popular music group The Beach Boys. The group's eleventh album, it has been widely ranked as one of the most influential records ever released in western pop music and has been ranked at number #1 in several music magazines' lists of greatest albums of all time, including New Musical...
   by Beach Boys released
• May 17 - Bob Dylan and the Hawks (later The Band) play their show at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England, during which Dylan is booed by the audience due to his decision to tour with an electric band; the booing culminates in the famous "Judas" shout.
• May 30 - Them
  Them (band)
  
  Them was a Northern Ireland group formed in Belfast in April 1964 in music, most prominently known for the garage rock standard "Gloria " and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career....
   fronted by Van Morrison
  Van Morrison
  
  George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
   began a three-week stint as the headliner act at the Whisky-A-Go-Go. On the last night June 18, they were joined on stage by that week's opening act The Doors
  The Doors
  
  The Doors were an United States rock music band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by Singer Jim Morrison, keyboard instrument Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger....
  . Van and Jim Morrison
  Jim Morrison
  
  James Douglas Morrison was an United States singer, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic Lead singers in rock music history....
   sang Gloria together.
• June 6 – At Gallatin, Tennessee
  Gallatin, Tennessee
  
  Gallatin is a city located on a navigable tributary of the Cumberland River in Sumner County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. At the 2000 census, its population was 23,230....
  , 25-year-old Claudette Frady-Orbison, while motorcycycle riding with her husband Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  , was killed when her motorcycle was struck by a pickup truck.
• July 2 - The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
   become the first musical group to perform at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo
  Tokyo
  
  , officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
  . The performance ignited a lot of protest from local citizens who felt that it was inappropriate for a rock and roll band to play at Budokan.
• July 29 - Bob Dylan is involved in a motorcycle accident.
• July - In this month, The Mothers of Invention
  The Mothers of Invention
  
  The Mothers of Invention was an American rock and roll band active from 1964 to 1975. They mainly performed works by and were the original recording group of composer and guitarist Frank Zappa, although other members have an occasional writing credit....
   release their debut album, Freak Out!
  Freak Out!
  
  Freak Out! is the debut album by American experimental rock band The Mothers of Invention, released June 27, 1966 on Verve Records. Though often cited as one of rock music's first concept albums, the real unifying theme of the album is not musical, but a satirical attitude based on frontman Frank Zappa's unique perception of American pop...
  , a pioneer concept album
  Concept album
  
  In popular music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical". Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being musical improvisation or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing to narrative....
  .
• August 11 - John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
   holds a press conference in Chicago, Illinois to apologize for his remarks the previous March. "I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I was not knocking it. I was not saying we are greater or better."
• August 1 - "Midsummer Serenades: A Mozart Festival" is held - the first Mostly Mozart
  Mostly Mozart
  
  The Mostly Mozart Festival is a summer series of concerts held at Lincoln Center in New York City. Currently, the artistic director is Jane Moss while the music director is Louis Langr?e....
   Festival.
• August 5 - The Small Faces
  The Small Faces
  
  Small Faces were an England Rock music group from East London, England, heavily influenced by United States rhythm and blues. The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston ....
   5th single release "All or Nothing
  All or Nothing (Small Faces song)
  
  "All or Nothing" is a hit song written by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane of British mod group Small Faces in 1966 .The song reached Hit record on the UK Singles Chart two weeks after being released and due to a change in the TOTP chart that week, shared spot with The Beatles song "Yellow Submarine "....
  " reaches #1 in UK Singles Chart
  UK Singles Chart
  
  The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
  .
• August 5 - The Beatles release their seventh album, Revolver
  Revolver (album)
  
  Revolver is the seventh album by The Beatles, released on 5 August 1966. The album showcased a number of new stylistic developments which would become more pronounced on later albums....
  .
• August 16 - The Monkees
  The Monkees
  
  The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
   "Last Train To Clarksville
  Last Train to Clarksville
  
  "Last Train to Clarksville" is the debut and number-one single by The Monkees, included on the group's 1966 The Monkees , that was released two months later....
  " released and starts its climb to #1 on the Billboard charts.
• August 29 - The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
   perform their last official concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California
  San Francisco, California
  
  The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
  
• September - George Harrison
  George Harrison
  
  George Harrison Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"....
   travels to India
  India
  
  India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
   for 6 weeks to study sitar
  Sitar
  
  The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument. It uses sympathetic strings along with a long hollow neck and a gourd resonance chamber to produce a very rich sound with complex harmonic resonance....
   with Ravi Shankar
• September 5 - The Animals
  The Animals
  
  The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
   disbanding.
• September 12 - First episode of The Monkees is broadcast on NBC Television
• September 16 - Eric Burdon
  Eric Burdon
  
  Eric Victor Burdon is best known as a founding member and singer of The Animals, a rock band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and his multi-racial project the Funk rock band War ....
   records a solo album after leaving The Animals
  The Animals
  
  The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
   and appears on the show "Ready, Steady, Go" togeather with Otis Redding
  Otis Redding
  
  Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an United States soul music singer. He is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of Gospel musi...
   and Chris Farlowe
  Chris Farlowe
  
  Chris Farlowe is a successful English people popular music, Rhythm and blues and soul music singer....
  .
• October - Gerry & The Pacemakers
  Gerry & the Pacemakers
  
  Gerry & the Pacemakers were a United Kingdom rock and roll musical ensemble during the 1960s. In common with The Beatles, they came from Liverpool and were management by Brian Epstein....
   break up.
• October 7 - Johnny Kidd
  Frederick Heath
  
  Frederick Heath best known as Johnny Kidd, was an England singer and songwriter, who was the front man for the rock and roll musical band, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates....
  , writer of 'Shakin All Over' dies in a car accident.
• October 8 - WOR-FM in New York City
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
   becomes the first FM rock music
  Rock music
  
  Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
   station, under the leadership of DJ Murray The K
  Murray the K
  
  Murray Kaufman professionally known as Murray the K, was a famous and influential rock and roll impresario and disc jockey of the 1950s, '60s and '70s....
  .
• October 10 - Simon and Garfunkel
  Simon and Garfunkel
  
  Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
   release Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
  Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
  
  Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme is an album bySimon and Garfunkel, released in the United States of America on October 10, 1966. Its name comes from the second line of the album's first track, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle," an England folk song from the 16th century, paired with a counter-melody and text about a soldier....
  , which hits #4 on Billboard charts
• November 11 - The Small Faces
  The Small Faces
  
  Small Faces were an England Rock music group from East London, England, heavily influenced by United States rhythm and blues. The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston ....
   release single "My Mind's Eye
  My Mind's Eye (song)
  
  "My Mind's Eye" was the sixth song released on 11 November 1966 by the successful England R&B, Beat music group Small Faces. It reached number four on the UK Singles Chart....
  " it reaches #4 in UK Singles Chart
  UK Singles Chart
  
  The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
  .
• December - The Animals
  The Animals
  
  The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
   re-form as "Eric Burdon and the Animals".
• Cher
  Cher
  
  Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
   had her first solo international hit with "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
  Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
  
  "Bang Bang " is the name of a song written by Sonny Bono. In 1966 in music, Cher released it as the second single from the album The Sonny Side of Cher....
  ".
• The Crystals
  The Crystals
  
  The Crystals were a New York City singing group and are considered one of the defining acts of the girl group era of the first half of the 1960s....
  , 'Da Do Ron Ron' fame, disband
• The Moscow Radio Orchestra becomes the first major overseas orchestra to perform at The Proms
  The Proms
  
  The Proms, more formally known as The BBC Proms, or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral european classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington, London....
  .
• Guinness Book of World Records recognize that Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass set a world record for placing five albums simultaneously on Billboard's Pop Album Chart. Their music outsells The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
   by a margin of two-to-one... over 13 million recordings. They win 4 Grammys this year.
• Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
   receives for a second time the Music Hall Bravos.
• Charley Pride
  Charley Pride
  
  Charley Frank Pride is a country music artist. During his career, he has had thirty-six number-one hits on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs charts....
   is signed by RCA.

New Bands

• The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  
  The Jimi Hendrix Experience was an English/American rock music band that formed in London in 1966. Originally comprising American vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until 1969, in which time they released three successful studio albums....
  
• Cream
  Cream (band)
  
  Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
  

Albums released

• 1 - Tim Hardin
  Tim Hardin
  
  Timothy James Hardin was an United States folk music musician and composer. He is best remembered for writing the top 40 hits "If I Were a Carpenter" covered by Bobby Darin and "Reason to Believe" covered by Rod Stewart, as well as his own uneven recording career....
  
• A Slice of the Top - Hank Mobley
  Hank Mobley
  
  Henry Mobley was an United States hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz....
   with Lee Morgan
  Lee Morgan
  
  Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter....
  
• Adam's Apple
  Adam's apple
  
  The laryngeal prominence?commonly known as the Adam's Apple?is a feature of the human neck. This lump, or protrusion, is formed by the angle of the thyroid cartilage surrounding the larynx....
   - Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter
  
  Wayne Shorter is an United States jazz composer and saxophone, commonly regarded as one of the most important American jazz saxophonists and composers since the 1960s....
  
• Aftermath - The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
  
• Alfie Soundtrack - Sonny Rollins
  Sonny Rollins
  
  Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is an United States jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins' long, prolific career began at the age of 11, and he was playing with piano legend Thelonious Monk before reaching the age of 20....
  
• All About Makeba - Miriam Makeba
  Miriam Makeba
  
  Miriam Makeba was a South African singer and civil rights activist. The Grammy Award winning artist is often referred to as Mama Afrika....
  
• All Through the Night: Julie London Sings the Choicest of Cole Porter
  All Through the Night: Julie London Sings the Choicest of Cole Porter
  
  All Through the Night: Julie London Sings the Choicest of Cole Porter was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3434 as a monophonic recording and catalog number LST-7434 in stereo in 1965 in music....
   - Julie London
  Julie London
  
  Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....
  
• An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri - Harry Belafonte
  Harry Belafonte
  
  Harold George Belafonte, Jr. is a Jamaican American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful popular singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso music" a title which he was very reluctant to accept for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s....
  
• And Now! - Booker T and the MGs
• And Then... Along Comes The Association
  And Then... Along Comes the Association
  
  ?And Then...Along Comes the Association was the first album by The Association. It was originally released on Valiant Records in July, 1966; subsequently, when Valiant was acquired by Warner Bros....
   - The Association
  The Association
  
  The Association is a pop music band from California in the sunshine pop genre. They are best known for their popularity in the 1960s, when they had numerous hits at or near the top of the Billboard charts....
  
• Animalism
  Animalism (album)
  
  Animalism is a blues rock album by The Animals, released in December 1966 . The album includes a collaboration with Frank Zappa , with cover versions of B.B....
   - The Animals
  The Animals
  
  The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
  
• Animalisms
  Animalisms
  
  Animalisms is the third British album by United Kingdom group The Animals. It has a track listing generally similar to the American version Animalization that would be released two months later....
   - The Animals
  The Animals
  
  The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
  
• Animalization
  Animalization
  
  Animalization is the fifth United States album by United Kingdom Rhythm and blues group The Animals. It has a track listing somewhat similar to the British album Animalisms....
   - The Animals
  The Animals
  
  The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
  
• Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl? - The Barbarians
• Autumn '66 - The Spencer Davis Group
• Away We A Go-Go
  Away We a Go-Go
  
  Away We A Go-Go is a 1966 album by The Miracles. The album features the singles " I'm The One You Need",a Billboard Top 20 Pop hit, written and produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland; and "Whole Lotta Shaking In My Heart ...
   - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
• Beau Brummels '66 - The Beau Brummels
  The Beau Brummels
  
  The Beau Brummels were a successful 1960s United States rock music band, formed in San Francisco in 1963. Their sound was influenced by The Beatles and other British Invasion bands, as well as by such American groups as the Kingston Trio and the Everly Brothers....
  
• The Best of The Animals
  The Best of The Animals (1966 album)
  
  The Best of The Animals was The Animals' first greatest hits collection. It was released in February 1966 in the United States, but never put out in the United Kingdom ....
   - The Animals
  The Animals
  
  The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
  
• Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
  Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
  
  Big Hits is the first official compilation album by The Rolling Stones, released in late 1966 on Decca Records in the United Kingdom and in the United States on London Records, the band's United States distributor at the time....
   - The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
  
• Bill Haley-a-Go Go - Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  
• Black Monk Time
  Black Monk Time
  
  Black Monk Time was the first album by the rock group The Monks, and the only album they released during their original incarnation.The album was produced by Jimmy Bowien, and recorded November 1965 in Cologne, Germany....
   - The Monks
  The Monks
  
  The Monks are a garage rock band, primarily active in Germany in the mid to late sixties. They reunited in 1999 and have continued to play concerts, although no new studio recordings have been made....
  
• Blonde on Blonde
  Blonde on Blonde
  
  Blonde on Blonde is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's seventh studio album, released in 1966 by Columbia Records.It is believed to be the first significant double album in rock music, its length forcing it to two Gramophone records, although some digital reissues fit the album on one compact disc....
   - Bob Dylan
• Blow Up
  Blow up
  
  Blow up can refer to:*Explosion*Blowup, a film by Michelangelo Antonioni*Blow Up , a band from Brighton, England*Blow Up, an Italian music magazine...
   Soundtrack - Herbie Hancock
  Herbie Hancock
  
  Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
  
• Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
  Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
  
  Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton is a 1966 electric blues album by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clapton as lead guitarist. It is often referred to as The Beano album because the photograph on the album cover shows Clapton reading The Beano, a well-known British children's comic....
   - John Mayall
• Boom - The Sonics
  The Sonics
  
  The Sonics are an American garage rock band, originating from the early and mid-1960s. Among The Sonics' other contemporaries were The Kingsmen, The Wailers, The Drastics, The Dynamics, The Regents, and Paul Revere & the Raiders....
  
• Boots
  Boots
  
  Boots may refer to:* Boots Group, a large chain of chemists in the United Kingdom and elsewhere* Boots, a character in the popular children's television series, Dora the Explorer...
   - Nancy Sinatra
  Nancy Sinatra
  
  Nancy Sandra Sinatra is an United States singer and actor. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra from his first wife, Nancy Barbato, and remains known for her 1966 signature song "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"....
  
• Both Sides of Herman's Hermits
  Both Sides of Herman's Hermits
  
  Both Sides of Herman's Hermits is the fourth album released by MGM Records in the U.S. and Canada for the band Herman's Hermits. It was released in August, 1966....
   - Herman's Hermits
  Herman's Hermits
  
  Herman's Hermits were an England pop band, formed in Manchester in 1963 as 'Herman & The Hermits'. The group's management and producer Mickie Most emphasized a simple, non-threatening and clean-cut image, although the band originally played Rhythm and blues numbers ....
  
• Buffalo Springfield
  Buffalo Springfield
  
  Buffalo Springfield was a short-lived but influential folk rock group that served as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Jim Messina , and is most famous for the song "For What It's Worth "....
   - Buffalo Springfield
  Buffalo Springfield
  
  Buffalo Springfield was a short-lived but influential folk rock group that served as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Jim Messina , and is most famous for the song "For What It's Worth "....
  
• Bus Stop - The Hollies
  The Hollies
  
  The Hollies are an England Pop music band from Manchester formed in the early 1960s. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style they became one of the leading British bands of the era, and they enjoyed considerable popularity in many other countries although they did not achieve major US chart success until the early 1970s....
  
• Calypso in Brass - Harry Belafonte
  Harry Belafonte
  
  Harold George Belafonte, Jr. is a Jamaican American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful popular singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso music" a title which he was very reluctant to accept for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s....
  
• The Classic Roy Orbison
  The Classic Roy Orbison
  
  The Classic Roy Orbison is an album recorded by Roy Orbison on the MGM Records label and released in July 1966....
   - Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  
• Color Me Barbra
  Color Me Barbra
  
  Color Me Barbra is the title of the seventh studio album by singer Barbra Streisand released on Columbia Records in 1966. It reached #3 in the US albums charts and was certified GOLD by the RIAA....
   - Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand
  
  Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  
• Come the Day - The Seekers
  The Seekers
  
  The Seekers were a group of Australian folk music-influenced pop music musicians that was formed in Melbourne in 1962. They were the first Australian popular music group to achieve significant chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States....
  
• Come Out - Steve Reich
  Steve Reich
  
  File:Steve Reich2.jpgStephen Michael Reich is an United States composer who pioneered the style of minimalist music. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns , and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts ....
  
• Complete and Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul - Otis Redding
  Otis Redding
  
  Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an United States soul music singer. He is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of Gospel musi...
  
• Conquistador!
  Conquistador!
  
  Conquistador! is a 1966 album by Cecil Taylor....
   - Cecil Taylor
  Cecil Taylor
  
  Cecil Percival Taylor is an United States pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the inventors of free jazz....
  
• Country Joe and the Fish
  Country Joe and the Fish
  
  Country Joe and the Fish was a rock music band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971....
   - Country Joe and the Fish
  Country Joe and the Fish
  
  Country Joe and the Fish was a rock music band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971....
  
• The Creation - The Creation (band)
  The Creation (band)
  
  The Creation were an England freakbeat band , formed in 1966. The most popular Creation song was "Painter Man", which made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart in late 1966 in music, and reached #8 in the Germany record chart in April 1967....
  
• Crying Time - Ray Charles
  Ray Charles
  
  Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  
• Daydream
  Daydream
  
  A daydream is a visionary Fantasy experienced while awake, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions. There are so many different types of daydreaming that there is still no consensus definition amongst psychology....
   - The Lovin' Spoonful
  The Lovin' Spoonful
  
  The Lovin' Spoonful is an United States pop rock band of the 1960s, named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. The band's name was inspired by some lines in a song of Mississippi John Hurt called the "Coffee Blues." John Sebastian credits Fritz Richmond for suggesting the name....
  
• DelightfuLee - Lee Morgan
  Lee Morgan
  
  Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter....
   with Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter
  
  Wayne Shorter is an United States jazz composer and saxophone, commonly regarded as one of the most important American jazz saxophonists and composers since the 1960s....
  
• Dion & The Belmonts Together Again - Dion DiMucci & the Belmonts
• Distant Drums
  Distant Drums
  
  Distant Drums is a 1951 in film film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Gary Cooper. It is set during the Second Seminole War in the 1840s, with Cooper playing an Army captain who destroys a fort held by the Seminole Indians then retreats into the Everglades while under chase....
   - Jim Reeves
  Jim Reeves
  
  James Travis "Jim" Reeves was an United States singer-songwriter of country western and pop music music....
  
• Doctor Zhivago
  Doctor Zhivago
  
  The name Doctor Zhivago can refer to:...
   - Maurice Jarr
• Double Dynamite
  Double Dynamite
  
  Double Dynamite is a 1951 musical film comedy featuring Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, and Frank Sinatra. The film was written by Leo Rosten, Mel Shavelson, Mannie Manheim, and Harry Crane, and directed by Irving Cummings....
   - Sam and Dave
• Down on Stovall's Plantation - Muddy Waters
  Muddy Waters
  
  McKinley Morganfield , better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues"....
  
• Drums Unlimited - Max Roach
  Max Roach
  
  Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history....
  
• East Broadway Run Down
  East Broadway Run Down
  
  East Broadway Run Down is a 1966 album by legendary jazz tenor saxophone Sonny Rollins, his last album before industry pressures led him to take a six year hiatus....
   - Sonny Rollins
  Sonny Rollins
  
  Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is an United States jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins' long, prolific career began at the age of 11, and he was playing with piano legend Thelonious Monk before reaching the age of 20....
  
• East-West
  East-West
  
  East-West is a 1966 album by Paul Butterfield which was the group's second full album release. The record's title track is a long improvisational instrumental piece inspired by blues, jazz fusion and raga that was considered groundbreaking at the time of release, and over four decades later stands out as a turning point in the history of...
   - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
  Paul Butterfield
  
  Paul Butterfield was an United States blues vocalist, harmonica player who gained international recognition in part, as one of the early acts performing during the Summer of Love, in Woodstock, New York....
  
• Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur
  Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur
  
  Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur is a 1967 in music live album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the big band of Duke Ellington.It was recorded live in Juan-les-Pins, on the French riviera, between June 26 and July 29, 1966....
   - Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
   and Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
  
• The Empty Foxhole - Ornette Coleman
  Ornette Coleman
  
  Ornette Coleman is an United States saxophoneist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
  
• Everybody Loves a Nut
  Everybody Loves a Nut
  
  Everybody Loves a Nut is the twenty-second album by American country music singer Johnny Cash, released by Columbia Records in the United States in 1966 ....
   - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• The Exciting Wilson Pickett
  The Exciting Wilson Pickett
  
  The Exciting Wilson Pickett, released in 1966, was the second album by rhythm and blues and soul music singer Wilson Pickett. The album charted at #3 on Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and #21 on their chart of Billboard 200....
   - Wilson Pickett
  Wilson Pickett
  
  Wilson Pickett was an United States rhythm and blues/Rock and Roll and soul music singer and songwriter known for his raw, raspy, passionate vocal delivery....
  
• Face to Face
  Face to Face (The Kinks album)
  
  Face to Face is an album released by The Kinks in 1966 on Pye Records in the United Kingdom and on Reprise Records in the United States. A major artistic breakthrough for Kinks' songwriter Ray Davies, the gramophone record represents the first full flowering of Davies' use of narrative, observation, and wry social commentary in his songs....
   - The Kinks
  The Kinks
  
  The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
  
• Faithful Forever - Marianne Faithfull
  Marianne Faithfull
  
  Marianne Faithfull is an award-winning England singer, songwriter, actor and diarist whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s....
  
• The Far East Suite - Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
  
• Fifth Dimension
  Fifth Dimension (album)
  
  Fifth Dimension is the third album by the United States Rock music band The Byrds, which was released in the summer of 1966 on Columbia Records, catalogue item CL 2549 in monaural, CS 9349 in stereo....
   - The Byrds
  The Byrds
  
  The Byrds were an American Rock music band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several lineup changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group's disbandment in 1973....
  
• Finnegan Wakes
  Finnegan Wakes
  
  Finnegan Wakes is a live album by The Dubliners. Recorded live at the Gate Theatre on 26 and 27 April 1966 and produced by Nathan Joseph, this was The Dubliners' final recording for Transatlantic Records....
   - The Dubliners
  The Dubliners
  
  The Dubliners are an Music of Ireland band founded in 1962 in music....
  
• For Certain Because
  For Certain Because
  
  For Certain Because is the fifth UK album by The Hollies. This was also the first Hollies album in which all the songs were written by members Allan Clarke , Graham Nash, and Tony Hicks....
   - The Hollies
  The Hollies
  
  The Hollies are an England Pop music band from Manchester formed in the early 1960s. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style they became one of the leading British bands of the era, and they enjoyed considerable popularity in many other countries although they did not achieve major US chart success until the early 1970s....
  
• For the Night People
  For the Night People
  
  For the Night People was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3478 as a monophonic recording and catalog number LST-7478 in stereo in 1966 in music....
   - Julie London
  Julie London
  
  Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....
  
• Frankie and Johnny
  Frankie and Johnny (1966 film)
  
  Frankie and Johnny is a 1966 in film musical film starring Elvis Presley as a riverboat gambler. The role of "Frankie" was played by Donna Douglas, star of the hit television series, The Beverly Hillbillies....
   (OST) - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• Freak Out!
  Freak Out!
  
  Freak Out! is the debut album by American experimental rock band The Mothers of Invention, released June 27, 1966 on Verve Records. Though often cited as one of rock music's first concept albums, the real unifying theme of the album is not musical, but a satirical attitude based on frontman Frank Zappa's unique perception of American pop...
   - The Mothers of Invention
  The Mothers of Invention
  
  The Mothers of Invention was an American rock and roll band active from 1964 to 1975. They mainly performed works by and were the original recording group of composer and guitarist Frank Zappa, although other members have an occasional writing credit....
   (debut)
• Fresh Cream
  Fresh Cream
  
  Fresh Cream is Cream 's December 1966 debut album. It was the first LP release of producer Robert Stigwood's new "Independent" Reaction Records label....
   - Cream
  Cream (band)
  
  Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
  
• Gettin' Ready
  Gettin' Ready
  
  Gettin' Ready is a 1966 album by The Temptations for the Gordy label. It marks the transition of the group from having Smokey Robinson as its main producer, with new producer Norman Whitfield taking over Robinson's position....
   - The Temptations
  The Temptations
  
  The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
  
• Go Away From My World - Marianne Faithfull
  Marianne Faithfull
  
  Marianne Faithfull is an award-winning England singer, songwriter, actor and diarist whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s....
  
• Got Live If You Want It!
  Got Live if You Want It!
  
  Got Live If You Want It! is the first live album by British rock band The Rolling Stones. It was released in the US in late 1966. At the time, it was not released officially in the UK; instead, the British market had the 1965 Extended play release Got Live If You Want It! , from which the album's name derived....
   - The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
  
• The Great Aarrival - Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
• The Great San Bernadino Birthday Party and Other Excursions - John Fahey
  John Fahey (musician)
  
  John Fahey was an United States fingerstyle guitarist and composer who pioneered the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as American Primitivism, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of his art....
  
• Grrr - Hugh Masakela
• Handful of Soul - James Brown
  James Brown
  
  James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  
• Happiness Is You
  Happiness Is You
  
  Happiness Is You is the twenty-third album by country music singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1966 . It contains, among others, "Guess Things Happen That Way", a re-recording of one of Cash's earliest Sun Records songs....
   - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• Here and Now and Sounding Good! - Dick Morrissey
  Dick Morrissey
  
  Richard Edwin "Dick" Morrissey was a United Kingdom jazz musician and composer. He played tenor sax, soprano sax and flute....
   Quartet
• Here I Am
  Here I Am (Dionne Warwick album)
  
  Here I Am, the fifth album by Dionne Warwick, was recorded during the summer and fall of 1965 and released early in 1966 by Scepter Records....
   - Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick
  
  Dionne Warwick , is an American singer, actress, activist, United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, former United States Ambassador of Health, and humanitarian....
  
• Hey Joe
  Hey Joe
  
  "Hey Joe" is an United States popular song from the 1960s that has become a rock and roll standard, and as such has been performed in a multitude of musical styles....
   - The Leaves
  The Leaves
  
  The Leaves were an United States garage band formed in California in 1963. They are best known for their version of the song "Hey Joe", which was a hit in 1966....
  
• The High, Lonesome Sound of Bill Monroe - Bill Monroe
  Bill Monroe
  
  William Smith Monroe was an United States musician who helped develop the style of music known as bluegrass music, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky....
  
• Hold On, I'm Comin - Sam and Dave
• Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful
  Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful
  
  Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful is the third album by the folk/rock band The Lovin' Spoonful, released in 1966. It peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard charts Pop Albums chart....
  - The Lovin' Spoonful
  The Lovin' Spoonful
  
  The Lovin' Spoonful is an United States pop rock band of the 1960s, named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. The band's name was inspired by some lines in a song of Mississippi John Hurt called the "Coffee Blues." John Sebastian credits Fritz Richmond for suggesting the name....
  
• I Got You (I Feel Good)
  I Got You (I Feel Good)
  
  "I Got You " is a hit song by James Brown. Released as a Single in 1965, it is one of Brown's signature songs, and is arguably his most widely-known recording....
  - James Brown
  James Brown
  
  James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  
• I Hear a Symphony
  I Hear a Symphony
  
  "I Hear a Symphony" is a 1965 hit song recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, "I Hear a Symphony" was the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks, from November 14, 1965 to November 27, 1965, and reached number two on the soul ch...
  - The Supremes
  The Supremes
  
  The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
  
• If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
  If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
  
  If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears is the 1966 debut album by The Mamas & the Papas . In 2003, the album was ranked number 127 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
  - The Mamas & the Papas
  The Mamas & the Papas
  
  The Mamas & the Papas were a vocal group of the 1960s. The group recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968 with a short reunion in 1971, releasing five albums and ten hit singles....
  
• Ike and Tina Turner and the Raelettes - Ike & Tina Turner
  Ike & Tina Turner
  
  Ike & Tina Turner were an United States rock & roll and soul music duo, made of the husband-and-wife team of Ike Turner and Tina Turner in the 1960s and 1970s....
  
• Impressions of a Patch of Blue
  Impressions of a Patch of Blue
  
  Impressions of a Patch of Blue is an album by vibraphonist Walt Dickerson with Sun Ra as a sideman. It is the last album Dickerson recorded before his decade long sabbatical from jazz before his comeback in the mid-1970s....
  - Sun Ra
  Sun Ra
  
  Sun Ra was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy", musical compositions and performances....
  
• In My Quiet Room - Harry Belafonte
  Harry Belafonte
  
  Harold George Belafonte, Jr. is a Jamaican American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful popular singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso music" a title which he was very reluctant to accept for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s....
  
• In The Beginning - Paul Revere and the Raiders
• In The Christmas Spirit - Booker T and the MGs
• The Incredible String Band - The Incredible String Band
• It's a Man's Man's Man's World
  It's a Man's Man's Man's World (album)
  
  It's a Man's Man's Man's World in an album by James Brown, released in August 1966....
  - James Brown
  James Brown
  
  James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  
• Jack Orion
  Jack Orion
  
  Jack Orion is the third album by Scotland Folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1966. It contains a number of traditional songs, including the epic Jack Orion : a ten-minute adaptation of the Child ballad ballad Glasgerion which tells of a court fiddler?s attempt to seduce a countess and his servant's treachery in successfully impersonati...
  - Bert Jansch
  Bert Jansch
  
  Herbert Jansch , known as Bert Jansch, is a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle . He was born in Glasgow and, in the 1960s, he was heavily influenced by the guitarist Davey Graham and folk singers such as Anne Briggs....
  
• James Brown Plays New Breed (The Boo-Ga-Loo) - James Brown
  James Brown
  
  James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  
• James Brown Sings Christmas Songs - James Brown
  James Brown
  
  James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  
• James Brown Sings James Brown Today and Yesterday - James Brown
  James Brown
  
  James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  
• Je m'appelle Barbra
  Je m'appelle Barbra
  
  Je m'appelle Barbra is the eighth studio album released by Barbra Streisand. Streisand sings much of the album in French language.The album peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200, and was certified RIAA certification#List of certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America on 24 April 2002, almost 36 years after its original...
  - Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand
  
  Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  
• Just Between the Two of Us - Merle Haggard
  Merle Haggard
  
  Merle Ronald Haggard is an United States country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter.Merle Haggard has become one of the true giants of country music, as a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and instrumentalist....
  
• Lightfoot!
  Lightfoot!
  
  Lightfoot! is the debut album by Canada singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. Though recorded in late 1964, the album was not released until the spring of 1966 on the United Artists Records label....
  - Gordon Lightfoot
  Gordon Lightfoot
  
  Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., Order of Canada, Order of Ontario is a Canada singer and songwriter who achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music....
  
• Lightly Latin
  Lightly Latin
  
  Lightly Latin was Perry Como 13th RCA Victor 12" long-play album, the 11th recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound and the third featuring Dynagroove technology....
  - Perry Como
  Perry Como
  
  Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
  
• Little Wheel Spin and Spin - Buffy Saint Marie
• Live at the Cafe Au Go Go - Blues Project
  Blues Project
  
  The Blues Project was a short-lived band from the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City that was formed in 1965 and split up in 1967. While their songs drew from a wide array of musical styles, they are most remembered as one of the earliest practitioners of psychedelic rock, as well as one of the world's first jam bands, along with...
  
• Live in Greenwich Village - Albert Ayler
  Albert Ayler
  
  Albert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz Saxophone, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved by using the stiff plastic Fibrecane...
  
• The Lost Acetates 1965-1966 - The Misunderstood
  The Misunderstood
  
  The Misunderstood were a psychedelic rock band originating from Riverside, California in the mid-1960s. They moved to London in 1966, with the assistance of their management, John Peel, who would later gain fame as an influential BBC Radio DJ....
  
• Love (album) - Love (band)
  Love (band)
  
  Love was an United States rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Arthur Lee and the group's second songwriter, guitarist Bryan MacLean....
  
• Love, Strings and Jobim
  Love, Strings and Jobim
  
  Love, Strings and Jobim is a 1966 album by various Brazilian artists who play the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim. Unfortunately, because Jobim is pictured on the cover and mentioned in the title, he has been and continues to be credited to be the performing artist on the album....
  - Antonio Carlos Jobim
  Antônio Carlos Jobim
  
  Ant?nio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim, was a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist....
  
• Machines - Manfred Mann
  Manfred Mann
  
  Manfred Mann are a United Kingdom Beat music, rhythm and blues and popular music band of the 1960s, named after their South African keyboard player and founder, who later led the successful 1970s follow-on group Manfred Mann's Earth Band....
  
• Magic Box - The Loved Ones
  The Loved Ones
  
  The Loved Ones were an Australian rock band of the 1960s, formed in the wake of the British Invasion. Although the band's career lasted only two years, the group is now regarded as one of the most significant Australian bands of the 1960s....
  
• Malaisha - Miriam Makeba
  Miriam Makeba
  
  Miriam Makeba was a South African singer and civil rights activist. The Grammy Award winning artist is often referred to as Mama Afrika....
  
• The Mamas and the Papas
  The Mamas and the Papas (album)
  
  The Mamas & the Papas is a 1966 album by The Mamas & the Papas. The self-named album was their second release. It peaked at number four in the US and number 24 in the UK....
  - The Mamas & the Papas
  The Mamas & the Papas
  
  The Mamas & the Papas were a vocal group of the 1960s. The group recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968 with a short reunion in 1971, releasing five albums and ten hit singles....
  
• Mama Too Tight - Archie Shepp
  Archie Shepp
  
  Archie Shepp is a prominent American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentrism music of the late 1960s which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African Race , as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contemporaries,...
  
• Mann Made Hits - Manfred Mann
  Manfred Mann
  
  Manfred Mann are a United Kingdom Beat music, rhythm and blues and popular music band of the 1960s, named after their South African keyboard player and founder, who later led the successful 1970s follow-on group Manfred Mann's Earth Band....
  
• Mean as Hell - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• Midnight Ride
  Midnight Ride
  
  Midnight Ride is a 1990 Action film/Thriller film. It stars Mark Hamill, Michael Dudikoff, Savina Gersak, and Robert Mitchum in a cameo role ....
  - Paul Revere and the Raiders
• Mighty Instrumentals - James Brown
  James Brown
  
  James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  
• Miles Smiles
  Miles Smiles
  
  Miles Smiles is an album recorded in October 1966 by the Miles Davis quintet.On three tracks from this album , piano Herbie Hancock takes the unusual step of dispensing with left-hand chords and playing only right-hand lines....
  - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  
• Mission:Impossible - Lalo Schifrin
  Lalo Schifrin
  
  Lalo Schifrin is an Argentina piano and composer. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the Mission Impossible theme. He has received four Grammy Awards and six Academy Award nominations....
  
• Mode for Joe
  Mode for Joe
  
  Mode for Joe is the fifth Blue Note Records release by United States jazz music tenor saxophone Joe Henderson....
  - Joe Henderson
  Joe Henderson
  
  Joe Henderson was an United States jazz tenor saxophone. Born in Lima, Ohio, he studied music at Kentucky State College and Wayne State University before playing in Detroit at the beginning of his career....
  
• The Monkees
  The Monkees (album)
  
  The Monkees is the first album by the band The Monkees. It was released in October 1966 by Colgems Records.The Monkees' debut was the first of four consecutive U.S....
  - The Monkees
  The Monkees
  
  The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
  
• Monorails and Satellites - Sun Ra
  Sun Ra
  
  Sun Ra was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy", musical compositions and performances....
  
• Moods of Marvin Gaye
  Moods of Marvin Gaye
  
  Moods of Marvin Gaye is a 1966 album recorded by Marvin Gaye for the Tamla label.The album's plan was to establish the singer as a strong albums-oriented artist, as well as a hit maker, although Gaye was still uncomfortable with performing strictly R&B....
  - Marvin Gaye
  Marvin Gaye
  
  Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye was an United States singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range....
  
• Moonlight Sinatra
  Moonlight Sinatra
  
  Moonlight Sinatra is an album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1966.All of the tracks on the album are centered around the Moon. The tracks were arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle and his orchestra....
  - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• North Country Maid - Marianne Faithful
• Nothing Is - Sun Ra
  Sun Ra
  
  Sun Ra was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy", musical compositions and performances....
  
• On Top - The Four Tops
• The Orbison Way
  The Orbison Way
  
  The Orbison Way is an album recorded by Roy Orbison for MGM Records. The album was released in January 1966....
  - Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  
• The Originator - Bo Diddley
  Bo Diddley
  
  Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
  
• Other Planes of There - Sun Ra
  Sun Ra
  
  Sun Ra was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy", musical compositions and performances....
  
• Paradise, Hawaiian Style
  Paradise, Hawaiian Style
  
  Paradise, Hawaiian Style is a 1966 in film musical film comedy film starring Elvis Presley. It was the third and final motion picture that Presley filmed in Hawaii....
  (OST) - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
  Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
  
  Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme is an album bySimon and Garfunkel, released in the United States of America on October 10, 1966. Its name comes from the second line of the album's first track, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle," an England folk song from the 16th century, paired with a counter-melody and text about a soldier....
  - Simon and Garfunkel
  Simon and Garfunkel
  
  Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
  
• Perry Como in Italy
  Perry Como in Italy
  
  Perry Como In Italy was Perry Como 14th RCA Victor 12" long-play album, the 12th recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound and the fourth featuring Dynagroove technology....
  - Perry Como
  Perry Como
  
  Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
  
• Pet Sounds
  Pet Sounds
  
  Pet Sounds is a 1966 in music recorded by United States popular music group The Beach Boys. The group's eleventh album, it has been widely ranked as one of the most influential records ever released in western pop music and has been ranked at number #1 in several music magazines' lists of greatest albums of all time, including New Musical...
  - The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys
  
  The Beach Boys are an American rock band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close harmony and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of cars and surfing....
  
• Phil Ochs in Concert
  Phil Ochs in Concert
  
  Phil Ochs In Concert was Phil Ochs' third long player, released in 1966 on Elektra Records. Contrary to its title, it was not entirely live, as several tracks were actually recorded in the studio, owing to flaws in the live recordings made in Boston and New York City in late 1965 and early 1966, but it still retained the feel of a live al...
  - Phil Ochs
  Phil Ochs
  
  Philip David Ochs was a United States protest song and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice....
  
• Play One More - Ian and Sylvia
  Ian and Sylvia
  
  Ian and Sylvia Tyson, Order of Canada, were a Canada folk music duo who performed and recorded from the early 1960s through the early 1970s....
  
• Portrait
  Portrait
  
  A portrait is a portrait painting, portrait photography, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant....
  - The Walker Brothers
  The Walker Brothers
  
  The Walker Brothers were an United States 1960s and 1970s pop music musical ensemble, comprising Scott Engel, John Maus, and Gary Walker . They had a number of top ten albums and singles in the mid-1960s, including #1 chart hits "Make It Easy on Yourself" and "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine "...
  
• Projections - Blues Project
  Blues Project
  
  The Blues Project was a short-lived band from the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City that was formed in 1965 and split up in 1967. While their songs drew from a wide array of musical styles, they are most remembered as one of the earliest practitioners of psychedelic rock, as well as one of the world's first jam bands, along with...
  
• Psychedelic Lollipops - Blues Magoos
  Blues Magoos
  
  The Blues Magoos was a rock music group from the Bronx, New York. They were at the forefront of the psychedelic music trend, beginning as early as 1966....
   
• The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
  The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
  
  The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators is a 1966 album by 13th Floor Elevators. The album's sound is notable for its use of the electric Jug , as featured on the band's only hit, "You're Gonna Miss Me"....
  - The 13th Floor Elevators
• A Quick One
  A Quick One
  
  A Quick One is the second album by England rock music band The Who, released in 1966. American record company executives released the album under the title Happy Jack, rather than the sexually suggestive title of the UK release, and due to "Happy Jack " being a top forty hit in the U.S....
  - The Who
  The Who
  
  The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
  
• Ray's Moods - Ray Charles
  Ray Charles
  
  Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  
• The Real Folk Blues
  The Real Folk Blues
  
  The Real Folk Blues is a series of Blues music compilation albums released between 1965 and 1967 by Chess Records and distributed by MCA Records....
  - Howlin' Wolf
  Howlin' Wolf
  
  Chester Arthur Burnett , better known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, "no one could match [Howlin' Wolf] for the singular...
  
• The Real Folk Blues
  The Real Folk Blues
  
  The Real Folk Blues is a series of Blues music compilation albums released between 1965 and 1967 by Chess Records and distributed by MCA Records....
  - Muddy Waters
  Muddy Waters
  
  McKinley Morganfield , better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues"....
  
• The Real Folk Blues
  The Real Folk Blues
  
  The Real Folk Blues is a series of Blues music compilation albums released between 1965 and 1967 by Chess Records and distributed by MCA Records....
  - Sonny Boy Williamson
  Sonny Boy Williamson
  
  Sonny Boy Williamson may refer to either of two 20th-century American blues harmonica players:*Sonny Boy Williamson I , John Lee Curtis Williamson, "The Original Sonny Boy Williamson", born in Tennessee and associated with Bluebird Records and pre-war blues...
   (Rice Miller)
• Reflections in a Crystal Wind - Richard Farina
  Richard Fariña
  
  Richard George Fari?a was an United States writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same era....
   and Mimi Farina
  Mimi Fariña
  
  Mimi Baez Fari?a was a singer, songwriter, and activist. She was the daughter of physicist Albert Baez and sister of Folk music Joan Baez.Fari?a married novelist, musician and composer Richard Fari?a in 1963 at the age of 17, and the two collaborated on a number of influential folk albums, most notably Celebrations for a Grey Day and...
  
• The Remains
  The Remains
  
  The Remains were a mid-1960s rock group from Boston, Massachusetts, led by Barry Tashian. They are best known for being one of the opening acts of The Beatles' final US tour in 1966....
  - The Remains
  The Remains
  
  The Remains were a mid-1960s rock group from Boston, Massachusetts, led by Barry Tashian. They are best known for being one of the opening acts of The Beatles' final US tour in 1966....
  
• Revolver
  Revolver (album)
  
  Revolver is the seventh album by The Beatles, released on 5 August 1966. The album showcased a number of new stylistic developments which would become more pronounced on later albums....
  - The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  
• River Deep - Mountain High
  River Deep - Mountain High
  
  "River Deep - Mountain High" is a 1966 single by Ike & Tina Turner. Considered by producer Phil Spector to be his best work , "River Deep - Mountain High" was commercially unsuccessful upon its original release in the United States, but was a huge hit in Europe, peaking at #3 in the United Kingdom....
  - Ike & Tina Turner
  Ike & Tina Turner
  
  Ike & Tina Turner were an United States rock & roll and soul music duo, made of the husband-and-wife team of Ike Turner and Tina Turner in the 1960s and 1970s....
  
• Roadrunner
  Roadrunner
  
  A roadrunner is a bird in the genus Geococcyx.Roadrunner or Road Runner may also refer to:* Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, an animated character based on the bird...
  - Junior Walker & the All Stars
• Sam and Dave Roulette - Sam and Dave
• Satisfied With You - The Dave Clark Five
  The Dave Clark Five
  
  The Dave Clark Five were an England pop rock group. It was the second group of the British Invasion, after The Beatles, to have a record chart hit record in the United States ....
  
• Second Album - The Four Tops
• The Second Album - The Spencer Davis Group
• The Seeds
  The Seeds
  
  The Seeds were a Rock music band who are best known for their hit single "Pushin' Too Hard,", released in 1966. Based in Los Angeles, California, California, their raw and abrasive energy and simple, repetitive lyrics came to exemplify the garage rock style of the 1960s....
  - The Seeds
  The Seeds
  
  The Seeds were a Rock music band who are best known for their hit single "Pushin' Too Hard,", released in 1966. Based in Los Angeles, California, California, their raw and abrasive energy and simple, repetitive lyrics came to exemplify the garage rock style of the 1960s....
  
• Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 - Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
• Shadow Music - The Shadows
  The Shadows
  
  Nick-named: the Shads, The Shadows are the most successful United Kingdom instrumental and vocal group from the 1950s to the 2000s with an aggregate total of at least 64 UK hit singles....
  
• Sinatra at the Sands
  Sinatra at the Sands
  
  Sinatra at the Sands is a 1966 live album by Frank Sinatra, accompanied by the Count Basie, conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones, recorded live at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada....
  - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• Small Faces - The Small Faces
  The Small Faces
  
  Small Faces were an England Rock music group from East London, England, heavily influenced by United States rhythm and blues. The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston ....
  
• Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White - The Standells
  The Standells
  
  The Standells were a 1960's garage rock band from Los Angeles, California, California....
  
• Sonny Side of Cher - Cher
  Cher
  
  Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
  
• The Soul Album
  The Soul Album
  
  The Soul Album is an album by United States Soul music singer-songwriter Otis Redding, released in 1966....
  - Otis Redding
  Otis Redding
  
  Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an United States soul music singer. He is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of Gospel musi...
  
• Soul Sister - Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
  
• Sound
  Sound
  
  Sound is vibration transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a threshold of hearing to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations....
  - Roscoe Mitchell Sextet
• Sounds of Silence
  Sounds of Silence
  
  Sounds of Silence may refer to:-* Sounds of Silence , a 1966 album by Simon and Garfunkel* "The Sounds of Silence," a song written by Paul Simon included on the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M....
  - Simon and Garfunkel
  Simon and Garfunkel
  
  Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
  
• Spicks and Specks (album)
  Spicks and Specks (album)
  
  Spicks and Specks is the Bee Gees second album. It was released in Australia 1966 . Their subsequent tour took the Bee Gees to the salubrious heights of the Kyamba Smith Hall at Wagga Wagga Showground in country New South Wales, where such stars as Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs and The Easybeats also performed....
  - Bee Gees
  Bee Gees
  
  The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers ? Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb. They were born on the Isle of Man to England parents, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, United Kingdom and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers....
  
• Spinout
  Spinout
  
  Spinout is a 1966 in film musical film and comedy starring Elvis Presley as the lead singer of a band and part-time racecar driver. This has been known for many years as one of Presley's worst films, but recently it has been seen as a parody of the teen film genre and this reassessment has given the film newfound appreciation....
  (OST) - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• S.R.O.
  S.R.O.
  
  S.R.O., issued in 1966, was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass' seventh album. It included work by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, as well as the band's cover of "Mame" , one of the first TJB recordings to include vocals from Alpert, as he and the group sang the song's chorus in the middle of the otherwise-instrumental rendition....
  - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
• The Stockholm Concert, 1966
  The Stockholm Concert, 1966
  
  The Stockholm Concert, 1966 is a 1966 live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the Duke Ellington Orchestra....
  - Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
   and Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
  
• Strangers in the Night
  Strangers in the Night (Frank Sinatra album)
  
  Strangers In The Night is a 1966 album by Frank Sinatra.The album marked Sinatra's return to #1 on the Billboard 200 in the mid-1960s, and it consolidated the comeback he started in 1966....
  - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• Stop!Stop!Stop! - The Hollies
  The Hollies
  
  The Hollies are an England Pop music band from Manchester formed in the early 1960s. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style they became one of the leading British bands of the era, and they enjoyed considerable popularity in many other countries although they did not achieve major US chart success until the early 1970s....
  
• Sunshine Superman
  Sunshine Superman (album)
  
  Sunshine Superman is the third album from Scotland singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United States in September 1966 , but was not released in the United Kingdom because of a contractual dispute....
  - Donovan
  Donovan
  
  Donovan , is a Scotland singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk music scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, Popular music, psychedelic rock, and world music....
  
• Supreme's a Go-Go - The Supremes
  The Supremes
  
  The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
  
• Swinging Doors - Merle Haggard
  Merle Haggard
  
  Merle Ronald Haggard is an United States country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter.Merle Haggard has become one of the true giants of country music, as a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and instrumentalist....
  
• Symphony for Improvisers - Don Cherry
  Don Cherry (jazz)
  
  Don Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz trumpeter whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, and who would go on to live and work with a wide variety of musicians in many parts of the world....
   with Pharoah Sanders
  Pharoah Sanders
  
  Pharoah Sanders is an United States jazz saxophonist. Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound." Albert Ayler fa...
   and Gato Barbieri
  Gato Barbieri
  
  Leandro Barbieri better known as Gato Barbieri is an Argentina jazz tenor saxophone and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s....
  
• Take a Little Walk With Me - Tom Rush
  Tom Rush
  
  Tom Rush is a noted folk music and blues music singer, songwriter and recording artist....
  
• Takes Off - Jefferson Airplane
  Jefferson Airplane
  
  Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
  
• Tauhid - Pharoah Sanders
  Pharoah Sanders
  
  Pharoah Sanders is an United States jazz saxophonist. Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound." Albert Ayler fa...
  
• That's Life
  That's Life (Frank Sinatra album)
  
  That's Life is a 1966 album by Frank Sinatra.Sinatra was supported by a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Ernie Freeman.The album is notable for its title song, "That's Life ", a brash R&B tune, which proved to be a top 5 hit for Sinatra in the age of psychedelic music....
  - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• Try Too Hard - The Dave Clark Five
  The Dave Clark Five
  
  The Dave Clark Five were an England pop rock group. It was the second group of the British Invasion, after The Beatles, to have a record chart hit record in the United States ....
  
• Unit Structures
  Unit Structures
  
  Unit Structures is a 1966 album by Cecil Taylor....
  - Cecil Taylor
  Cecil Taylor
  
  Cecil Percival Taylor is an United States pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the inventors of free jazz....
  
• Uptight - Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  
  Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  
• Víctor Jara (Geografía)
  Víctor Jara (Geografía)
  
  V?ctor Jara is the name of the first studio album recorded by the Chilean folk-singer/songwriter, V?ctor Jara in 1966 which was released by RCA early in 1967....
  - Víctor Jara
  Víctor Jara
  
  V?ctor Lidio Jara Mart?nez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist. A distinguished theatre director, he devoted himself to the development of Chilean theatre, directing a broad array of works from locally produced Chilean plays, to the classics of the world stage, to the experimental work of...
  
• Visits Planet Earth - Sun Ra
  Sun Ra
  
  Sun Ra was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy", musical compositions and performances....
  
• Volume One
  Volume One (West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band album)
  
  Volume One was the first album recorded by the influential psychedelic rock band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. The album was first released in 1966 in music on the small record label, FIFO, before being reissued on compact disc in 1997 by the recording label Sundazed....
  - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
  The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
  
  The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band was an United States psychedelic rock band of the late 1960s, based in Los Angeles, California....
  
• What Now My Love
  What Now My Love (album)
  
  What Now My Love is a 1966 album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. The album remained at the #1 position on the Billboard Album chart for nine weeks, the longest of any album released by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass....
  - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
• What's Up Tiger Lily? - The Lovin' Spoonful
  The Lovin' Spoonful
  
  The Lovin' Spoonful is an United States pop rock band of the 1960s, named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. The band's name was inspired by some lines in a song of Mississippi John Hurt called the "Coffee Blues." John Sebastian credits Fritz Richmond for suggesting the name....
  
• When Angels Speak of Love - Sun Ra
  Sun Ra
  
  Sun Ra was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy", musical compositions and performances....
  
• Where Is Brooklyn? - Don Cherry
  Don Cherry (jazz)
  
  Don Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz trumpeter whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, and who would go on to live and work with a wide variety of musicians in many parts of the world....
   with Pharoah Sanders
  Pharoah Sanders
  
  Pharoah Sanders is an United States jazz saxophonist. Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound." Albert Ayler fa...
  
• Where Were You When I Needed You? - The Grass Roots
  The Grass Roots
  
  The Grass Roots are a United States rock and roll band that charted between 1966 and 1975 as the brainchild of songwriter duo P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri....
  
• Whiskey-a-Go Go - Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  
• Whisper Not
  Whisper Not
  
  Whisper Not is a 1967 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with the Marty Paich Orchestra. Ella had previously recorded with Marty Paich and his more familiar Dek-tette on the 1957 album Ella Swings Lightly....
  - Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  
• Why Pick On Me? - The Standells
  The Standells
  
  The Standells were a 1960's garage rock band from Los Angeles, California, California....
  
• Wild is the Wind
  Wild Is the Wind (song)
  
  "Wild Is the Wind" is a song written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington. The track was originally recorded by Johnny Mathis for the 1957 film Wild Is the Wind....
  - Nina Simone
  Nina Simone
  
  Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was a Grammy Award-nominated American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist....
  
• With God On Our Side
  With God on Our Side
  
  "With God on Our Side" is a song by Bob Dylan, released as the third track on his 1964 album The Times They Are A-Changin. Dylan first performed the song during his debut appearance at The Town Hall in New York City on April 12, 1963....
  - Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  
  Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
  
• Wonderfulness
  Wonderfulness
  
  Wonderfulness is the fourth album of stand up comedy performances by Bill Cosby. The title comes from a catch phrase used in Cosby's television series, I Spy....
  - Bill Cosby
  Bill Cosby
  
  William Henry "Bill" Cosby Jr. is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a vanguard role in the 1960s action show I Spy....
  
• Working My Way Back to You
  Working My Way Back To You
  
  "Working My Way Back to You" is a song made popular by The Four Seasons in 1966 and The Spinners in 1980.Written by Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, the song was originally recorded by The Four Seasons in 1966, reaching #9 on the U.S....
  - The Four Seasons
  The Four Seasons (group)
  
  The Four Seasons , is an United States popular music and rock music group. They also had a sound somewhat reminiscent of doo-wop, although they were not thought of as a doo wop quartet....
  
• Would You Believe?
  Would You Believe? (Hollies album)
  
  Would You Believe? is an album by the Hollies, released in 1966. It features a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "I Am a Rock," which displayed progression for the band at the time—the rising folk-rock nascent was on the horizon....
  - The Hollies
  The Hollies
  
  The Hollies are an England Pop music band from Manchester formed in the early 1960s. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style they became one of the leading British bands of the era, and they enjoyed considerable popularity in many other countries although they did not achieve major US chart success until the early 1970s....
  
• The Yardbirds USA-title: "Over, Under Sideways, Down" - The Yardbirds
  The Yardbirds
  
  The Yardbirds are an England Rock music band, noted for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page....
  
• Yesterday and Today
  Yesterday and Today
  
  Yesterday and Today is the tenth Capitol Records release by the The Beatles and the twelfth overall U.S. release. It was issued only in the United States and Canada....
  - The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  
• You Got My Mind Messed Up - James Carr
  James Carr (musician)
  
  James Carr , was an United States Rhythm and blues and Soul music musical artist.Born to a Baptist Church preacher's family in Coahoma, Mississippi, Carr began singing in church and was performing in Gospel music groups and making tables on an assembly line in Memphis, Tennessee, when he began recording in the mid-1960 in music for Goldwax...
  
• You Make Me Feel So Good - The McCoys
  The McCoys
  
  The McCoys were a pop music musical ensemble that started in Union City, Indiana, Indiana, United States, in 1962....
  
• The Young Rascals - The Young Rascals