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• January 4 - Guitarist Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  
  James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
   is jailed by Stockholm
  Stockholm
  
  is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....
   police, after trashing a hotel room during a drunken fist fight with bassist Noel Redding.
• January 6 - Gibson Guitar Corporation
  Gibson Guitar Corporation
  
  The Gibson Guitar Corporation, of Nashville, Tennessee, USA, is a manufacturer of Steel-string guitar and electric guitars. Gibson also owns and makes guitars under such brands as Epiphone, Kramer Guitars, Valley Arts Guitar, Tobias , Steinberger, and Gibson Kalamazoo Electric Guitar....
   patents its Gibson Flying V
  Gibson Flying V
  
  The Gibson Flying V is an electric guitar model first released by Gibson Guitar Corporation 1958 in music....
   electric guitar design.
• January 13 - 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....
   performs his famous concert at Folsom Prison in California.
• January 21 - 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 album The Graduate Original Soundtrack
  The Graduate (soundtrack)
  
  The Graduate was an album of songs from the soundtrack of Mike Nichols' movie The Graduate, featuring many songs from the folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel....
  .
• January - 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 ....
   launch Apple Corps, Ltd., a disastrously mismanaged entertainment company that included a recording studio, a record label, and clothing store.
• February 1
• Priscilla Presley
  Priscilla Presley
  
  Priscilla Beaulieu Presley is an United States actress and businesswoman. She is the ex-wife of singer and actor Elvis Presley, and the mother of singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley....
   gives birth to Elvis' only child, Lisa Marie
  Lisa Marie Presley
  
  Lisa Marie Presley is an United States singer-songwriter. She is the only child of musician Elvis Presley and his ex-wife, actress Priscilla Presley....
   at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee
  Memphis, Tennessee
  
  Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
  .
• Universal Studios
  Universal Studios
  
  Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
   offers 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....
   $500,000 to star in a feature film, which is never made.
• February 12 - Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  
  James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
   is given an honorary high school diploma from Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington. Hendrix is also given the key to the city.
• February 16 - 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 ....
  , Mike Love
  Mike Love
  
  Michael Edward "Mike" Love is an United States singer/songwriter with The Beach Boys. He formed the band along with his cousins Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, and Dennis Wilson, and their friend Al Jardine....
  , Mia Farrow
  Mia Farrow
  
  Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow , better known as Mia Farrow, is an United Statesn actress, singer and former Model . Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award , three British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian Inter...
  , 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....
   and others travel 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....
   to visit the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  
  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , introduced the Transcendental Meditation technique and related programs and initiatives, including schools and universities with campuses in India, the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom and China....
   at Rishikesh.
• February 18 - David Gilmour
  David Gilmour
  
  David Jon Gilmour Order of the British Empire , is an England musician, best known as the guitarist, lead singer, and one of the main songwriters in the band Pink Floyd....
   joins Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd
  
  Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
  , replacing founder Syd Barrett
  Syd Barrett
  
  Syd Barrett was an England singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst speculations of mental illness exacerbated by heavy drug use....
  , who checked himself into a psychiatric hospital.
• February 21 - McGraw-Hill
  McGraw-Hill
  
  The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are education, publishing, broadcasting, and financial and business services....
  , Inc., outbids eight other publishers and pays $150,000 for the U.S. rights to Hunter Davies
  Hunter Davies
  
  Hunter Davies is a prolific United Kingdom author, journalist and Presenter, perhaps best known for writing the only authorised biography of The Beatles....
  ' authorized biography 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 ....
  .
• February 22 - Florence Ballard
  Florence Ballard
  
  Florence Glenda Ballard Chapman, nicknamed "Flo" or "Blondie" , was an United States singer, and one of the co-founders of the Hall of Fame Motown group The Supremes....
   of 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....
   is released from her contract with Motown.
• February 28 - Frankie Lymon
  Frankie Lymon
  
  Franklin Joseph "Frankie" Lymon was an African-American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of a New York City-based early rock and roll musical group called The Teenagers....
   dies.
• March 1 - 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....
   and June Carter got married in Franklin, Kentucky. Merle Kilgore
  Merle Kilgore
  
  Wyatt Merle Kilgore was an United States singer, songwriter, and Talent manager....
   was best man. He co-wrote "Ring of Fire."
• March 8 - Bill Graham
  Bill Graham (promoter)
  
  Bill Graham was an United States impresario and rock music concert promoter from the 1960s until his death....
   opens the Fillmore East
  Fillmore East
  
  Fillmore East was promoter Bill Graham 's late 1960s ? early 1970s rock music palace in the East Village, Manhattan area of New York City.Located on Second Avenue at Sixth Street, this venue provided Graham with an East Coast of the United States counterpart to his existing The Fillmore establishment in San Francisco, California Opening...
   in an abandoned movie theater 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....
  .
• March 25 - The 58th and final new episode 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....
   airs on NBC.
• March 30 - 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....
   record their live album Live Yardbirds at the Anderson Theater.
• April 3 - 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 the critically acclaimed album Bookends
  Bookends
  
  Bookends is the name of an album and its title track, both recorded by Simon and Garfunkel, released April 3, 1968. It was record producer by Paul Simon, Roy Halee and Art Garfunkel....
  .
• April 4 - James Brown appears on national television, in an attempt to calm feelings of anger in the United States following the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
• April - 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 ....
  ' new record company, and management and publishing firm, Apple Corps, Ltd., opens offices 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....
  
• April 6 - Eurovision Song Contest
  Eurovision Song Contest
  
  The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition....
   held in the Royal Albert Hall
  Royal Albert Hall
  
  The Royal Albert Hall is an arts venue situated in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
  , 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 winning song, Spain
  Spain
  
  Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
  's "La La La
  La La La
  
  "La, la, la" is a song which was performed by the Spanish singer Massiel at the Eurovision Song Contest 1968, winning the contest for Spain in that year....
  " was sung by Massiel
  Massiel
  
  Mar?a de los ?ngeles Felisa Santamar?a Espinosa , professionally known as Massiel, is a Spanish pop singer. She won the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 with the song La La La, beating the famous United Kingdom pop singer Cliff Richard's Congratulations....
  , but only because Spanish authorities wouldn't allow Joan Manuel Serrat
  Joan Manuel Serrat
  
  Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa is a Spain Catalonia singer-songwriter.Serrat is considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both the Spanish and Catalan languages....
   to perform it in Catalan.
• April 7 - Singer/pianist/songwriter 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....
  's performance at Westbury Music Fair is dedicated to the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King. The song "Why? (the king of love is dead)" by Gene Taylor is performed for the first time. the show was partially released on the Emmy nominated album Nuff Said (1968).
• April 29 - The rock musical Hair
  Hair (musical)
  
  Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot....
   opened on Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
   at the Biltmore Theatre
  Biltmore Theatre
  
  The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre is a Legitimate theater Broadway theatre theatre located at 261 West 47th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect Herbert J....
  .
• May 4 - Mary Hopkin
  Mary Hopkin
  
  Mary Hopkin is a Wales folk music singer. She is best known as one of the first artists to sign to the Beatles' Apple Records label....
   performs on the British TV show Opportunity Knocks. Hopkin catches the attention of model Twiggy
  Twiggy
  
  Twiggy is an English Model , actress, and singer, now also known by her married name of Twiggy Lawson. In the 1960s, at 16, she became the first prominent teenage model....
  , who recommends her to 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 ....
   Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  . McCartney would soon sign Hopkin to Apple Records
  Apple Records
  
  Apple Records is a record label founded by The Beatles in 1968, as a division of Apple Corps. It was initially intended as a creative outlet for the Beatles, both as a group and individually, plus a selection of other artists including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Badfinger, and Billy Preston....
  .
• May 5 - 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 "....
   performs together for the last time in Long Beach, California
  Long Beach, California
  
  Long Beach is a large city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific Ocean coast. It is situated in Los Angeles County, about south of downtown Los Angeles....
  .
• May 26 - Blues artist Little Willie John
  Little Willie John
  
  William Edward John, better known by the stage name Little Willie John was an American R&B singer of the 1950s and early 1960s, best known for his hits "All Around the World" and the cover version "Fever " , a tune copied by Peggy Lee and made famous in 1958....
   dies in prison after being convicted of manslaughter.
• May 30 - 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 ....
   begin recording what would become their double-LP, thereafter known, for obvious reasons, as The White Album, but officially titled, simply, "The Beatles". Sessions would span over 4 months, ending on October 14.
• June - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
  Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
  
  Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake was a successful concept album by the United Kingdom rock band Small Faces. Released on 24 May 1968 the LP album became a number one hit in the UK Album Charts on 29 June where it remained for a total of six weeks....
   album released by Small Faces
• June - David Ruffin
  David Ruffin
  
  David Ruffin was an American soul music singer most famous for his work as lead singer of The Temptations from 1964 to 1968 . His was the lead voice on such classic songs as "My Girl " and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"....
   is fired from 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....
  
• July 7 - 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....
   perform for the last time before disbanding.
• July 18 - Mina
  Mina (singer)
  
  Mina Anna Mazzini, Italian orders of merit#Order of Merit of the Republic , known as Mina, is an Italian popular music. For her voice and performing talent, she was a star attraction of the Italian television variety shows and a dominant figure on the Italian charts....
   presents her Italian white soul hits "Se stasera sono qui" and "Colpo al cuore". The performance is transmitted live without playback from the Auditorio A of the Radiotelevisione Italiana regional headquarters in Naples
  Naples
  
  Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
  .
• August 4 - Yes
  Yes (band)
  
  Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
   performs for the first time, at a summer camp.
• August 23 - 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"....
   give live concert at the Hollywood Bowl
  Hollywood Bowl
  
  The Hollywood Bowl is a famous modern amphitheatre in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, USA, that is used primarily for music performances....
  , Hollywood, California
  California
  
  California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
  . Recording is later released on CD
  Compact Disc
  
  A Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store Data , originally developed for storing digital audio. The CD, available on the market since October 1982, remains the standard physical medium for sale of commercial Sound recording and reproduction to the present day....
   in 1994 by Australia
  Australia
  
  Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
  n company Vigotone Records as Voices of Intelligent Dissent.
• September 7 - Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
   performs for the first time; at their first show, they are billed as 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....
   (the Yardbirds had disbanded two months earlier, and guitarist Jimmy Page
  Jimmy Page
  
  James Patrick Page Order of the British Empire is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he co-founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin....
   subsequently formed this new group).
• September 14 – The two sons of singer 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....
  , 10-year-old Roy DeWayne Orbison and 6-year-old Anthony King Orbison]], die in a house fire in Hendersonville, Tennessee
  Hendersonville, Tennessee
  
  Hendersonville is a city in Sumner County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States, on Old Hickory Lake. The population was 40,620 at the 2000 census....
  . Orbison's youngest son is saved.
• November 8 - John
  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....
   and Cynthia are divorced.
• November 15 - 500,000 people march in Washington DC for peace, which becomes the largest anti-war rally in U.S. history. In attendance: Arlo Guthrie
  Arlo Guthrie
  
  Arlo Davy Guthrie is an United States folk music singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings protest song against social injustice....
  , Pete Seeger
  Pete Seeger
  
  Peter "Pete" Seeger is an United States folk singer, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 50s as a member of The Weavers, most notably the 1950 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight, Irene" that topped the charts f...
  , Peter, Paul and Mary
  Peter, Paul and Mary
  
  Peter, Paul and Mary are a musical group from the United States who were one of the most successful folk song groups of the 1960s. The trio is composed of Peter Yarrow, Noel Stookey and Mary Travers ....
  , John Denver
  John Denver
  
  John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
  , Mitch Miller
  Mitch Miller
  
  Mitchell William Miller is an United States musician, singer, Conductor , record producer, A&R man and record company executive. He was one of the most influential figures in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as the head of Artists & Repertoire at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist....
  , touring cast of Hair
  Hair (musical)
  
  Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot....
  
• November 22 - The Beatles
  The Beatles (album)
  
  The Beatles is the ninth official U.K. album and the fifteenth U.S. album by The Beatles, a double album 1968 in music. It is more commonly known as The White Album as it has no text other than the band's name on its plain white sleeve....
   (also known as "The White Album") by 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 ....
   is released
• November 26 - 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....
   plays their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall
  Royal Albert Hall
  
  The Royal Albert Hall is an arts venue situated in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
  . It will be the last time Eric Clapton
  Eric Clapton
  
  Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
  , Jack Bruce
  Jack Bruce
  
  John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scotland musician, musical composer and singer. He is best-known as an electric bass guitarist, harmonica player and piano, and was most famous as a vocalist and the bass guitarist for the 1960s rock band Cream ....
  , and Ginger Baker
  Ginger Baker
  
  Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker is an England drummer, best known for his work with Cream . He is also known for his numerous associations with New World music and the use of Music of Africa influences and other diverse collaborations such as his work with the Rock music Hawkwind....
   play together until their 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  
  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in the are...
  .
• December 1 - Jimi Hendrix's manager Chas Chandler
  Chas Chandler
  
  Bryan James "Chas" Chandler was an England musician, record producer and Talent manager of several successful music acts.Born in the Heaton, Newcastle district of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he began his career playing bass guitar in a trio with Alan Price....
   quits over differences with Hendrix during the recording of Electric Ladyland
• December 22 - 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...
   reunite for one benefit
  Benefit concert
  
  A benefit concert is a concert, show or gala featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable organization purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis....
   concert at the Newcastle City Hall while Eric Burdon & The Animals are disbanding.
• 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....
   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....
   perform their last concert together before Janis goes solo.
• New Jersey
  New Jersey
  
  New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
   Police confiscate 30,000 copies of 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....
   and Yoko Ono
  Yoko Ono
  
  , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
  's Two Virgins album at Newark Airport
  Newark Liberty International Airport
  
  Newark Liberty International Airport , first named Newark Airport and later Newark International Airport, is an international airport within the city limits of both Newark, New Jersey and Elizabeth, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States....
  , saying that the cover, which features a nude photo of the two artists, is "pornographic". In Chicago, Illinois, police officers shut down a record shop for displaying the album cover.
• December 3 - 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 1968 Comeback Special airs on NBC.

Bands Formed

• Rush
  Rush (band)
  
  Rush is a Canadian Rock music band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale, Toronto neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, currently composed of bass guitar, keyboard instrument, and singer Geddy Lee; electric guitar Alex Lifeson; and drum kit and lyricist Neil Peart....
   is formed in Toronto
  Toronto
  
  Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
  .
• The Band
  The Band
  
  The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
   (as The Hawks).
• James Taylor
  James Taylor
  
  James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
  's musical career begins.
• Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell
  
  Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
  's musical career begins.
• Free
  Free (band)
  
  Free were an England rock band, formed in London in 1968 and best known for their popular song "All Right Now".Lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become lead singer of the rock band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums....
  
• The Carpenters
  The Carpenters
  
  The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
  
• Warren Zevon
  Warren Zevon
  
  Warren William Zevon was an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician noted for weaving his offbeat, sardonic view of life into his music, composing dark, sometimes humorous songs often laced with political or historical themes....
  's musical career begins.
• Deep Purple
  Deep Purple
  
  Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
   (as Roundabout)
• Nazareth
  Nazareth (band)
  
  Nazareth are a Scottish rock music band that had several hard rock chart-topper in the mid 1970s, including the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant songwriter ballad, "Love Hurts."...
  
• Yes
  Yes (band)
  
  Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
  
• Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
  
• Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath
  
  Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
  

Albums released

• A Banda Tropicalista - Rogério Duprat
  Rogerio Duprat
  
  Rog?rio Duprat was a Brazilian composer and musician.Born in Rio de Janeiro, Duprat spent much of his life in S?o Paulo, where he died. It was there in the early 1960s that he developed an interest in the avant-garde art and music that would soon lead to him studying in Europe with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez....
  
• A Saucerful of Secrets
  A Saucerful of Secrets
  
  A Saucerful of Secrets is the second album by Rock music band Pink Floyd, and marks the group's stylistic change from psychedelic music to progressive rock....
   - Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd
  
  Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
  
• A Tramp Shining
  A Tramp Shining
  
  A Tramp Shining is an album by Richard Harris, released in 1968. Harris teamed with singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb for this album. Jimmy Webb wrote all the songs, arranged the musicians, and produced the entire album....
   -Richard Harris
  Richard Harris
  
  Richard St. John Harris was a two-time Academy Award-nominated and Grammy Award-winning Ireland actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer....
  
• Any Day Now - 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....
  
• Agemo's Trip to Mother Earth - Group 1850
  Group 1850
  
  Groep 1850 was a psychedelic music rock music from The Netherlands, considered by many to be one of the finest acid rock acts Europe has ever produced....
  
• Astral Weeks
  Astral Weeks
  
  Astral Weeks is a folk-rock and Rhythm and blues album by Northern Ireland singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in November 1968 on Warner Bros....
   - 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....
  
• At Folsom Prison
  At Folsom Prison
  
  At Folsom Prison is a live album by Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in May 1968. Since his 1955 song "Folsom Prison Blues", Cash drew an interest in performing at a prison....
   (live) - 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....
  
• At It Again
  At It Again
  
  At It Again is an album by The Dubliners and was released on the Major Minor label in 1968. It featured "The Irish Navy", a satirical song with lyrics co-written by Ronnie Drew and Luke Kelly and set to music by John Sheahan....
   - The Dubliners
  The Dubliners
  
  The Dubliners are an Music of Ireland band founded in 1962 in music....
  
• The Beatles
  The Beatles (album)
  
  The Beatles is the ninth official U.K. album and the fifteenth U.S. album by The Beatles, a double album 1968 in music. It is more commonly known as The White Album as it has no text other than the band's name on its plain white sleeve....
   (The White Album) - 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 ....
  
• Beggars Banquet
  Beggars Banquet
  
  Beggars Banquet is an LP released in 1968 by The Rolling Stones. It marked a return to the band's R&B roots, generally viewed as more primal than the conspicuous Psychedelic rock of Their Satanic Majesties Request....
   - 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 Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival
  Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival
  
  Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival  is a 1968 album by the United States jazz pianist Bill Evans, recorded live at that year's Montreux Jazz Festival....
   - Bill Evans
  Bill Evans
  
  William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
  
• Bill Haley's Biggest Hits - 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...
  
• The Birds, The Bees and The Monkees
  The Birds, The Bees & the Monkees
  
  The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees is a studio album by The Monkees released in April 1968....
   - 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....
  
• The Book of Taliesyn
  The Book of Taliesyn
  
  The Book of Taliesyn is the second album by England rock band Deep Purple, released in 1968 by Tetragrammaton Records in the US, and by EMI's Harvest Records in the UK, and Polydor Records in Canada and Japan in 1969....
   - Deep Purple
  Deep Purple
  
  Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
  
• Bookends
  Bookends
  
  Bookends is the name of an album and its title track, both recorded by Simon and Garfunkel, released April 3, 1968. It was record producer by Paul Simon, Roy Halee and Art Garfunkel....
   - 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"....
  
• Cheap Thrills
  Cheap Thrills
  
  Cheap Thrills is the second album from Big Brother and the Holding Company and their last album with Janis Joplin as primary lead vocalist....
   - 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....
  
• Child is Father to the Man
  Child Is Father to the Man
  
  Child Is Father to the Man is the debut album by Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in February of 1968 in music.Widely regarded as a classic fusion of jazz, rock and roll, psychedelic music and european classical music, Child Is Father to the Man is one of bandleader Al Kooper's most enduring works....
   - Blood, Sweat & Tears
  Blood, Sweat & Tears
  
  Blood, Sweat & Tears is an United States music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles....
  
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival (album)
  
  Creedence Clearwater Revival is the first album by United States band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1968 ."Porterville" featured in the film "Into the Wild " ....
   - Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
  
  Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
   (debut)
• Crown of Creation
  Crown of Creation
  
  Crown of Creation was released in 1968 and is the fourth album by the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane. The album was more concise and structured than its predecessor, After Bathing at Baxter's, and it became an immediate success, peaking at #6 on the album charts and eventually going gold....
   - 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....
  
• Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
  Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
  
  Cruising With Ruben & The Jets is an album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, released in 1968 , and controversially reissued in an alternate mix with newly recorded bass and percussion in 1984....
   - 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....
  
• Cycles
  Cycles (1968 album)
  
  'Cycles' is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1968.Released just before Christmas in 1968, there was a ten month gap between this album and the release of Francis A....
   - 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"....
  
• Dance to the Music
  Dance to the Music
  
  Dance to the Music can refer to one of the following:*Dance to the Music , a 1968 album by Sly & the Family Stone**"Dance to the Music ", a 1968 hit single from said album....
   - Sly and the Family Stone
• Dion - Dion DiMucci
• Diversions - Barry Booth
• Donovan in Concert
  Donovan in Concert (1968 album)
  
  Donovan in Concert is the sixth album from Scotland singer-songwriter Donovan, and the first live album of his career. It was recorded in the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on September 23, 1967....
   - 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....
  
• Drinkin' and Courtin'
  Drinkin' and Courtin'
  
  Drinkin' and Courtin is an album by The Dubliners. It was originally released in 1968. The line-up consists of Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna, Ciaran Bourke and John Sheahan....
   - The Dubliners
  The Dubliners
  
  The Dubliners are an Music of Ireland band founded in 1962 in music....
  
• Easy Does It
  Easy Does It (Julie London album)
  
  Easy Does It is a 1968 in music album by singer Julie London.By 1967, Julie London was on her way to exiting her long-term contract with Liberty Records....
   - 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! ....
  
• Electric Ladyland
  Electric Ladyland
  
  Electric Ladyland is the third and final album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in 1968 on Reprise Records . Written and produced by Jimi Hendrix, the album is seen as the peak of Hendrix's mastery of the electric guitar, and is frequently cited as one of the greatest rock albums of all time....
   - 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....
  
• Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4
  Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4
  
  Elvis' Golden Records Volume 4 is the thirty-first LP album by Elvis Presley, issued on RCA Records in monaural and stereo, LPM/LSP 3921, in January 1968, recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, and at Radio Recorders in Hollywood....
   - 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"....
  
• Every One Of Us
  Every One of Us
  
  Every One Of Us is an album released in 1968 by Eric Burdon & The Animals. It was the second of three albums released by the group in the United States in that year ....
   - Eric Burdon & The Animals
• Fall Out - Terry Smith
  Terry Smith (British jazz guitarist)
  
  Terence 'Terry' Smith is a United Kingdom jazz guitarist....
  
• Feelings - 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....
  
• Francis A. & Edward K.
  Francis A. & Edward K.
  
  Francis A. & Edward K. is a 1968 album by Frank Sinatra featuring Duke Ellington and his big band.This was the first time that Sinatra had worked with Ellington and the sessions were finished on Sinatra's fifty second birthday....
   - 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"....
   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 ....
  
• Friends - 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....
  
• From Sea to Shining Sea
  From Sea to Shining Sea
  
  From Sea to Shining Sea is a concept album and twenty-fifth album by country music singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1968 ....
   - 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....
  
• From St. Louie to Frisco
  From St. Louie to Frisco
  
  From St. Louie to Frisco is a Chuck Berry album which was released in 1968 under Mercury Records....
   - Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  
• Gal Costa - Gal Costa
  Gal Costa
  
  Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of M?sica Popular Brasileira....
  
• God Bless Tiny Tim
  God Bless Tiny Tim
  
  God Bless Tiny Tim was the first album by Tiny Tim . Released in 1968 on the Reprise Records label, it included "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" , a version of "I Got You Babe", and a collection of more obscure songs....
   - Tiny Tim
  Tiny Tim (musician)
  
  Herbert Khaury , better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an United States singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto / vibrato voice ....
  
• Golden Grass - 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....
  
• The Graduate Original Soundtrack
  The Graduate (soundtrack)
  
  The Graduate was an album of songs from the soundtrack of Mike Nichols' movie The Graduate, featuring many songs from the folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel....
   - 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"....
   (incidental music by Dave Grusin
  Dave Grusin
  
  David Grusin is an Academy Award-winning United States composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many film score for feature films and television, and he has won numerous awards for his soundtrack work....
  )
• The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
  The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
  
  The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter was the third album by the Incredible String Band, released in March 1968. It is regarded by many critics as a quintessential example of hippie culture, with its promotion of ideas such as communal living, eastern mysticism and pantheism; though this slightly undermines the inherent skill of musicianship f...
   The Incredible String Band
• Head (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 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....
  
• Heart of Cash
  Heart of Cash
  
  Heart of Cash is an album released by country music singer Johnny Cash in 1968 . In essence, it is a compilation album, though a handful of new recordings were included....
   - Johnny Cash
• The Hurdy Gurdy Man - 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....
  
• Idea
  Idea (album)
  
  Idea is the Bee Gees' third album on the ATCO label, released in August, 1968 . The album sold over a million copies worldwide. This album features "Such a Shame", the only Bee Gees song where lead vocals aren't sung by a Gibb brother....
   - The 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....
  
• In Search of the Lost Chord
  In Search of the Lost Chord
  
  In Search of the Lost Chord, released in 1968, was the second album by The Moody Blues' psychedelic-era line-up. The album was released through Deram Records....
   - The Moody Blues
  The Moody Blues
  
  The Moody Blues are an England band originally from Erdington in the city of Birmingham. Founding members Michael Pinder and Ray Thomas performed an initially rhythm and blues-based sound in Birmingham in 1964 along with Graeme Edge and others, and were later joined by John Lodge and Justin Hayward as they inspired and evolved the progressi...
  
• In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
  Iron Butterfly
  
  Iron Butterfly is an United States psychedelic rock and early Heavy metal music band, well known for their 1968 hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". They are considered an early heavy metal music band as a result of this song and others like it, as well as the title of their debut album, Heavy ....
  
• It's All About
  It's All About
  
  It's All About is the 1968 in music debut album of United Kingdom band Spooky Tooth.The American version of the album is titled Tobacco Road and was released belatedly in 1971....
   -Spooky Tooth
  Spooky Tooth
  
  Spooky Tooth were an England progressive rock band from the late 1960s. They faded into obscurity afterwards....
  
• John Wesley Harding
  John Wesley Harding (album)
  
  John Wesley Harding is Bob Dylan's 8th studio album, released by Columbia Records in 1967.Produced by Bob Johnston, the album marked Dylan's return to acoustic music and traditional roots, after three albums of electric rock music....
   - Bob Dylan
• Journey to the Center of the Mind - The Amboy Dukes
  The Amboy Dukes
  
  The Amboy Dukes were an United States rock music band of the late 1960s and early 1970s from Detroit, Michigan, best remembered for their hit single "Journey to the Center of the Mind", and for launching the career of Ted Nugent....
  
• Karyobin - Spontaneous Music Ensemble
  Spontaneous Music Ensemble
  
  The Spontaneous Music Ensemble was a loose collection of free improvising musicians convened beginning in the mid-1960s by the late South London-based jazz drummer/trumpeter John Stevens and alto and soprano saxophonist Trevor Watts....
  
• The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
  The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
  
  The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is a pop-rock album released by the England music group The Kinks on 22 November 1968....
   - 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....
  
• Lady Soul
  Lady Soul
  
  Lady Soul is a soul music album by Aretha Franklin, released on January 22, 1968 . The album was her second chart-topper, the follow-up to "Aretha Arrives" and included some of her biggest hit singles, "Chain of Fools" , and A Natural Woman , and " Since You've Been Gone" ....
   - 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....
  
• Large as Life and Twice as Natural -Davey Graham
  Davey Graham
  
  David Michael Gordon Graham, known as Davey Graham , , was a British nationality guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s folk music revolution in England....
  
• Last Time Around
  Last Time Around
  
  Last Time Around is the third and final album by folk rock band Buffalo Springfield, released in 1968 . The members included Neil Young, Stephen Stills, and Richie Furay....
   - 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 "....
  
• Look to Your Heart
  Look to Your Heart (Perry Como album)
  
  Look to Your Heart was Perry Como 16th RCA Victor 12" long-play album, the 14th recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound and the Fifth 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....
  
• Love Child
  Love child
  
  "Love child" is a euphemism for a child born out of wedlock. See Legitimacy .Love child may also refer to:In music:* Love Child , a 1968 album by Diana Ross & the Supremes...
   - Diana Ross & The Supremes
• Love Is - Eric Burdon & The Animals
• Love Is Blue - The Lawrence Welk Orchestra
  Lawrence Welk
  
  Lawrence Welk was a musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music." He is a 1961 inductee of North Dakota's Roughrider Award....
  
• Lumpy Gravy
  Lumpy Gravy
  
  Lumpy Gravy is the first solo album by Frank Zappa, originally released in 1967, but not generally available until May 1968. Zappa was credited as conducting on the album cover and he described the contents as "a curiously inconsistent piece, which started out to be a BALLET, but probably didn't make it." The album consists of pieces of Z...
   - Frank Zappa
  Frank Zappa
  
  Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
  
• Magic Bus: The Who On Tour
  Magic Bus: The Who on Tour
  
  Magic Bus: The Who on Tour is a compilation album by British rock band The Who, released in the United States in September, 1968. The band's American label, Decca Records, released the album after the success of the "Magic Bus" single....
   - 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....
  
• Misty Blue
  Misty Blue
  
  "Misty Blue" is a song written by Bobby Montgomery that has become a pop standard. Originally written as a country music song for Eddy Arnold, the song grew in popularity after it was covered by jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald in 1967 in music....
   - 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....
  
• Move
  MOVE
  
  MOVE is an organization formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1972 by John Africa and Donald Glassey. MOVE was described by CNN as "a loose-knit, mostly Black people group whose members all adopted the surname Africa, advocated a 'back-to-nature' lifestyle and preached against technology." After a deadly standoff with police in 1978, nin...
   - The Move
  The Move
  
  The Move were one of the leading British rock bands of the 1960s from Birmingham, England, and were among the most popular British bands to not find any success in the US....
  
• Music from Big Pink
  Music from Big Pink
  
  Music from Big Pink is the 1968 debut album by rock music band The Band. It features one of their best-known songs, "The Weight."...
   - The Band
  The Band
  
  The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
  
• Music In a Doll's House
  Music in a Doll's House
  
  Music in a Doll's House is the debut album by progressive rock group Family , released in July 1968. The album, which was mainly produced by Dave Mason of Traffic , features a number of complex musical arrangements contributing to its ambitious Psychedelic rock sound....
   - Family
  Family (band)
  
  Family were an England rock band that formed in 1967 and disbanded in 1973. Their style has been characterised as progressive rock, although their sound often explores other genres, incorporating elements of such styles as folk music, psychedelic music, acid rock, jazz fusion and basic rock 'n' roll....
  
• Os Mutantes
  Os Mutantes
  
  Os Mutantes are an influential Brazilian psychedelic rock band that were linked with the Tropicalismo movement of the late 1960s. It was formed by two brothers and a vocalist, but has gone through numerous personnel changes throughout its existence....
   - Os Mutantes
  Os Mutantes
  
  Os Mutantes are an influential Brazilian psychedelic rock band that were linked with the Tropicalismo movement of the late 1960s. It was formed by two brothers and a vocalist, but has gone through numerous personnel changes throughout its existence....
  
• NBC-TV Special
  NBC-TV Special
  
  NBC-TV Special, which carried only the name Elvis on the front sleeve, was a soundtrack album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records in November 1968....
  - 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"....
  
• Nuff Said - 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....
  
• Odessey and Oracle
  Odessey and Oracle
  
  Odessey and Oracle is a Psychedelic rock, Baroque Pop album by The Zombies released in 1968....
  - The Zombies
  The Zombies
  
  The Zombies, formed in 1961 in St Albans, are an England Rock music band . Led by Rod Argent on piano and Colin Blunstone on vocals, the band scored US chart-topper in the mid- and late-1960s with "She's Not There", "Tell Her No", and "Time of the Season"....
  
• Old Golden Throat
  Old Golden Throat
  
  Old Golden Throat is a compilation album by country music singer Johnny Cash, released in 1968 on Columbia Records. The record is a collection of single sides that, with two exceptions, had not yet appeared on an album ....
  - 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....
  
• On Stage - 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...
  
• Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
  Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
  
  Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake was a successful concept album by the United Kingdom rock band Small Faces. Released on 24 May 1968 the LP album became a number one hit in the UK Album Charts on 29 June where it remained for a total of six weeks....
  by Small Faces #1 in UK album chart.
• Only the Greatest
  Only the Greatest
  
  Only the Greatest is a 1968 in country music album by Waylon Jennings on RCA Records....
   - Waylon Jennings
  Waylon Jennings
  
  Waylon Arnold Jennings was an influential United States of America country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass guitar player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets....
  
• The Papas & The Mamas
  The Papas & The Mamas
  
  The Papas & The Mamas is a 1968 album by The Mamas & the Papas. It was their final album together before the group temporarily broke up before a brief 1971 reunion....
   - 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....
  
• The Perry Como Christmas Album
  The Perry Como Christmas Album
  
  The Perry Como Christmas Album was Perry Como 15th RCA Victor 12" long-play album, the 13th 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....
  
• The Pentangle
  The Pentangle
  
  The Pentangle was the 1968 debut album of the band Pentangle : Terry Cox, Bert Jansch, Jacqui McShee, John Renbourn and Danny Thompson. It brought together their separate influences of folk, jazz, blues, early music and contemporary song-writing into a sound that was unique, at the time, and has never been matched by another band since....
   - The Pentangle
  The Pentangle
  
  The Pentangle was the 1968 debut album of the band Pentangle : Terry Cox, Bert Jansch, Jacqui McShee, John Renbourn and Danny Thompson. It brought together their separate influences of folk, jazz, blues, early music and contemporary song-writing into a sound that was unique, at the time, and has never been matched by another band since....
  
• Recital na Boite Barroco - Maria Bethânia
  Maria Bethânia
  
  Maria Beth?nia Vianna Telles Veloso , better known as Maria Beth?nia, is a singer and sister of Caetano Veloso. She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opini?o" ....
  
• The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw
  The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw
  
  The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw is a 1967 album by Paul Butterfield. Its name refers to Elvin Bishop, whose role shifted to lead guitarist after Mike Bloomfield departed to form Electric Flag....
  - 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....
  
• Scott 2
  Scott 2
  
  Scott 2 was the second solo album by Scott Walker . The album, released on Philips Records in April 1968, reached UK Albums Chart and stayed in the U.K....
  - Scott Walker
  Scott Walker (singer)
  
  Scott Walker is the stage name of the American musician Noel Scott Engel , former lead singer with The Walker Brothers. He has been living in England since the 1960s, and continues to release new solo material....
  
• Scratching the Surface
  Scratching the Surface
  
  Sratching the Surface is a 1967 Blues album recorded by The Groundhogs.Track listing# "Rocking Chair" ? 4:07# "Still a Fool" ? 6:35...
   - The Groundhogs
  The Groundhogs
  
  The Groundhogs were a British blues band founded in late 1963, which toured extensively in the 1960s and continued in existence sporadically to the present day....
  
• Shades of Deep Purple
  Shades of Deep Purple
  
  Shades of Deep Purple is the debut album by England hard rock band Deep Purple, released in 1968 on Parlophone in the UK and Tetragrammaton Records in the United States....
   - Deep Purple
  Deep Purple
  
  Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
  
• Silver Apples
  Silver Apples (album)
  
  Silver Apples is the debut album by The Silver Apples. It was the most successful original album by the band even though it only reached 193 on the Billboard 200....
  - Silver Apples
• The Sinatra Family Wish You A Merry Christmas
  The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas
  
  The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas is a 1968 Christmas album by Frank Sinatra and featuring his children, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Nancy Sinatra, and Tina Sinatra....
  - 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"....
  
• Song to a Seagull
  Song to a Seagull
  
  Song to a Seagull is Joni Mitchell's 1968 debut album. Mitchell would later note that the album is more a result of her love of classical music than of folk, and this is evident through the thick, rich, and often unusual harmonies, and the densely poetic lyrics of the album....
  - Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell
  
  Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
  
• Speedway
  Speedway (film)
  
  Speedway is a 1968 in film action film musical film starring Elvis Presley as a racecar driver. Parts of the film were shot at the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina and features the guest appearances of several of the top NASCAR drivers of the day....
   (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"....
  
• Sweetheart of the Rodeo
  Sweetheart of the Rodeo
  
  Sweetheart of the Rodeo is the sixth album by United States Rock music band The Byrds, released on July 29 1968 . Despite being the most commercially unsuccessful album recorded by the group at the time of its release, Sweetheart of the Rodeo is one of the seminal recordings of country-rock and remains influential to this day....
   - 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....
  
• Switched-On Bach
  Switched-On Bach
  
  Switched-On Bach is a musical album by Wendy Carlos and Benjamin Folkman, produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind and released in 1968 by CBS Records....
  - Walter Carlos
• Taj Mahal
  Taj Mahal (album)
  
  Taj Mahal is an United States blues album by Taj Mahal ....
  - Taj Mahal
  Taj Mahal (musician)
  
  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who goes by the stage name Taj Mahal, is an internationally recognized blues musician who folds various forms of world music into his offerings....
  
• The Natch'l Blues - Taj Mahal
• Tell Mama
  Tell Mama
  
  Tell Mama is a 1968 album by Etta James, and the eighth LP release for the blues singer. Released through Chess Records, the album marked the continued deviation by James from her early mainstream R&B recordings toward traditional blues and Soul music....
  - Etta James
  Etta James
  
  Etta James is an American blues, soul music, rhythm and blues, rock & roll, gospel and jazz singer and songwriter. James is the winner of four Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards....
  
• Le Temps des Fleurs - 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....
  
• There Goes My Everything
  There Goes My Everything (album)
  
  There Goes My Everything was a 1968 in music album recorded by the singer/golfer Don Cherry . It was issued by Monument Records as catalog number SLP 18075....
  - Don Cherry
  Don Cherry (singer/golfer)
  
  Donald Ross Cherry is a singer of traditional pop music and a golfer.Cherry was born in Wichita Falls, Texas. He started as a big band singer, in the orchestras of Jan Garber, Victor Young and Tommy Dorsey....
  
• This Was
  This Was
  
  This Was is the first album by the rock and roll band Jethro Tull . Recorded at a cost of only ?1200 pound sterling, the album received generally favourable reviews and sold well upon its release....
  - Jethro Tull
  Jethro Tull (band)
  
  Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
  
• Traffic
  Traffic (album)
  
  Traffic was the eponymous rock album by the England rock band Traffic , ranging in style from psychedelic rock to acid jazz. It was their second release, in October 1968; it reached number 9 in the UK album charts on 26 October 1968, and reached number 17 in the Billboard charts in the United States....
  - Traffic
  Traffic (band)
  
  Traffic was an England rock band formed in 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. They began as a psychedelic rock group influenced by The Beatles when releasing early pop rock singles , and diversified their sound through the use of instruments such as musical keyboard, reed instruments, and by incorporating jazz an...
  
• The Transformed Man
  The Transformed Man
  
  'The Transformed Man' is actor William Shatner's debut album, released in 1968, while the Star Trek: The Original Series series, in which he starred as James T....
  - William Shatner
  William Shatner's musical career
  
  William Shatner's musical career has yielded a unique, much-criticized, and much-parodied body of work. William Shatner, a vocalist, typically spoken word instead of singing them, often as an exaggerated interpretive reading....
  
• The Tumbler
  The Tumbler
  
  The Tumbler was John Martyn 's second album released on Island Records in 1968. The album shows a progression from his previous solo Folk offering to a more expansive sound including significant contributions from jazz flautist Harold McNair....
  - John Martyn
  John Martyn
  
  John Martyn Order of the British Empire, born Iain David McGeachy , was a United Kingdom singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a forty-year career he released twenty studio albums and worked with artists such as Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, and Phil Collins....
  
• Turn Around, Look at Me
  Turn Around, Look at Me (album)
  
  Turn Around, Look at Me was an LP album by The Vogues, released by Reprise Records in 1968 in music, under catalog number RS-6314.The album was reissued, combined with the 1969 in music Vogues album Till , in compact disc format, by Taragon Records on November 6, 2001....
  - The Vogues
  The Vogues
  
  The Vogues were an United States singing quartet from Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb....
  
• The Twain Shall Meet
  The Twain Shall Meet
  
  The Twain Shall Meet is an album released in 1968 by Eric Burdon & The Animals.It includes "Sky Pilot ," one of the most famous anti-war songs of the Vietnam War era, including the sound of a plane crashing and a terrific guitar riff by Vic Briggs, and "Monterey ," the band's tribute to the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival....
  - Eric Burdon & the Animals
• The United States of America
  The United States of America (album)
  
  The United States of America is a 1968 album by the United States of America . Produced by David Rubinson, it was released by Columbia Records in 1968....
  - The United States of America
  The United States of America (band)
  
  The United States of America was an experimental rock and psychedelic band whose works are an example of early electronic music in rock and roll....
  
• Waiting for the Sun
  Waiting for the Sun
  
  Waiting for the Sun is The Doors' third studio album. It was released in 1968 and became the band's first and only number one album and spawned their second number one single, "Hello, I Love You." With the exception of two songs, the material for this album was written after the band's initial songs from the formation of the group had bee...
   - 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....
  
• We're Only in It for the Money
  We're Only in It for the Money
  
  We're Only in It For the Money is an experimental rock album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. It bridges a variety of styles and genres....
   - Mothers of Invention
• Wheels of Fire
  Wheels of Fire
  
  Wheels of Fire is the name of a double album recorded by Cream . The release was largely successful, scoring the band a #3 peak in the UK and a #1 in the US, and became the world's first platinum-selling double album....
  - 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....
  
• White Light/White Heat
  White Light/White Heat
  
  White Light/White Heat is the second studio album by the American rock music band The Velvet Underground. The record was the group's last with bassist and founding member John Cale....
  - The Velvet Underground
  The Velvet Underground
  
  The Velvet Underground was an American Rock music band first active, in various incarnations, from 1965 to 1973. Their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists....
  
• Who Knows Where the Time Goes
  Who Knows Where the Time Goes
  
  "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" is a song written by the England folk-rock singer and songwriter Sandy Denny. The song was originally recorded by Denny privately in 1967, and again during her time with Strawbs....
  - Judy Collins
  Judy Collins
  
  Judith Marjorie Collins is an United States folk singer and pop standards singer and songwriter, known for the stunning purity of her soprano; for her eclectic tastes in the material she records ; and for her social activism....
  
• 30 by Ella
  30 by Ella
  
  30 by Ella is a 1968 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.The albums unusual construction of six medleys of songs neatly fulfilled Fitzgerald's obligations for Capitol Records, making her free to pursue other projects....
  - 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....
  

• "1,2,3, Red Light" w.m. Sal Trimachi and Bobbi Trimachi
• "1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero" w.m. Bobby Russell
  Bobby Russell
  
  Bobby Russell was an United States songwriter....
  
• "Abraham, Martin and John" w.m. Dick Holler
• "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize" w.m. Les Reed
  Les Reed
  
  Les Reed O.B.E. is an English people songwriter, musician and light orchestra leader....
   & Barry Mason
  Barry Mason
  
  John Barry Mason known professionally as Barry Mason is an England songwriter.A leading songwriter of the 1960s, gaining many music recording sales certification awards for his work, his songwriting credits included "Love Grows ", "The Last Waltz ", "Here It Comes Again ", "There Goes My First Love", "A Man Without Love", "Winter Worl...
  
• "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" w.m. Richard M. Sherman
  Richard M. Sherman
  
  Richard Morton Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert B. Sherman. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the theme park song, "...
   & Robert B. Sherman
  Robert B. Sherman
  
  Robert Bernard Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard M. Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the them...
   from the film of the same name
  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film)
  
  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 in film feature film with a script by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes, and songs by the Sherman Brothers, based on Ian Fleming's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang....
  
• "Classical Gas" m. Mason Williams
  Mason Williams
  
  'Mason Douglas Williams' is an United States guitarist and composer, best known for his popular guitar instrumental "Classical Gas". He is also a multiple Emmy Award-winning comedy writer, known for his writing on the Smothers Brothers#The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and Saturday Night Live....
  
• "Dear World" w.m. Jerry Herman
  Jerry Herman
  
  Jerry Herman is an United States composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway theatre musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly! , Mame, and La Cage aux Folles....
   from the musical Dear World
  Dear World
  
  Dear World is a Broadway theatre Musical theater with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. With its opening, Herman became the only composer-lyricist in history to have three productions running simultaneously on Broadway...
  
• "Eli's Coming" w.m. Laura Nyro
  Laura Nyro
  
  Laura Nyro was an United States composer, lyricist, singer and pianist. Her style was a distinctive hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, mixed with elements of jazz, gospel music, rhythm and blues, show tunes and rock music....
  
• "The Fool on the Hill" w.m. 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....
   & Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  
• "For the Good Times" w.m. Kris Kristofferson
  Kris Kristofferson
  
  Kristoffer Kristian Kristofferson is an United States writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"....
  
• "Galveston" w.m. Jimmy Webb
  Jimmy Webb
  
  Jimmy Layne Webb is an American songwriter. His compositions include "Up, Up and Away ," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston ," and "MacArthur Park "....
  
• "Heffalumps and Woozles" w.m. Richard M. Sherman
  Richard M. Sherman
  
  Richard Morton Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert B. Sherman. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the theme park song, "...
   & Robert B. Sherman
  Robert B. Sherman
  
  Robert Bernard Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard M. Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the them...
   from the film Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
  Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
  
  Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day is an animated featurette based on the last two chapters of Winnie-the-Pooh and the second, eighth, and ninth chapters of The House at Pooh Corner, both by A....
  
• "Honey Pie" w.m. 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....
   and Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  
• "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" w. Hal David
  Hal David
  
  Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
   m. Burt Bacharach
  Burt Bacharach
  
  Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
   from the musical Promises, Promises
  Promises, Promises
  
  Promises, Promises is a musical theatre based on the 1960 film The Apartment by Billy Wilder. The music is by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, and book by Neil Simon....
  
• "Indian Lake" w.m. Tony Romeo
  Tony Romeo
  
  Tony Romeo is an American songwriter. He is famous for writing the No.1 hit "I Think I Love You" by The Partridge Family as well as many other hit records, mostly during the 1960s and 1970s....
  
• "Indian Reservation" w.m. John D. Loudermilk
  John D. Loudermilk
  
  John D. Loudermilk is an United States singer and songwriter....
  , first recorded by Don Fardon
  Don Fardon
  
  Don Fardon is an English people pop music singer....
  
• "Little Green Apples" w.m. Bobby Russell
  Bobby Russell
  
  Bobby Russell was an United States songwriter....
  
• "MacArthur Park" w.m. Jimmy Webb
  Jimmy Webb
  
  Jimmy Layne Webb is an American songwriter. His compositions include "Up, Up and Away ," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston ," and "MacArthur Park "....
  
• "Mister Bojangles" w.m. Jerry Jeff Walker
  Jerry Jeff Walker
  
  Jerry Jeff Walker is a country music singer....
  
• "My Way
  My Way (song)
  
  "My Way" is a song with lyrics written by Paul Anka and popularized by Frank Sinatra. The melody is based on a French Language song "Comme D'habitude" composed by Claude Fran?ois and Jacques Revaux....
  " (French: "Comme d'habitude") w.m. Claude François
  Claude François
  
  Claude Fran?ois was a French pop music singer and songwriter. He wrote "Comme d'habitude," the original version of "My Way ."...
   & Jacques Revaux
  Jacques Revaux
  
  Jacques Revaux is a songwriter most famous for his 1968 in music collaboration with singer Claude Fran?ois on the song "Comme d'habitude" that singer-songwriter Paul Anka reworked into the English language as "My Way "....
  , Eng.: Paul Anka
  Paul Anka
  
  Paul Albert Anka, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese people origin. He became a Naturalization US citizen in 1990....
  
• "The Night They Raided Minsky's" w. Lee Adams m. Charles Strouse from the film The Night They Raided Minsky's
  The Night They Raided Minsky's
  
  The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 musical comedy film directed by William Friedkin and produced by Norman Lear. It is a fictional account of the invention of the striptease at Minsky's Burlesque in 1925....
  
• "A Perfect Gentleman" w. Lee Adams m. Charles Strouse Introduced by Jason Robards
  Jason Robards
  
  Jason Nelson Robards, Jr., was an Academy Award & Emmy Award-winning United States actor and a World War II United States Navy combat veteran. He became famous playing works of United States dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and would regularly play O'Neill's works throughout his career....
   and Norman Wisdom
  Norman Wisdom
  
  Sir Norman J Wisdom, Order of the British Empire is an England former comedian, singer and actor....
   in the film The Night They Raided Minsky's
  The Night They Raided Minsky's
  
  The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 musical comedy film directed by William Friedkin and produced by Norman Lear. It is a fictional account of the invention of the striptease at Minsky's Burlesque in 1925....
  
• "Promises, Promises" w. Hal David
  Hal David
  
  Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
   m. Burt Bacharach
  Burt Bacharach
  
  Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
   from the musical Promises, Promises
  Promises, Promises
  
  Promises, Promises is a musical theatre based on the 1960 film The Apartment by Billy Wilder. The music is by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, and book by Neil Simon....
  
• "Save The Country" w.m. Laura Nyro
  Laura Nyro
  
  Laura Nyro was an United States composer, lyricist, singer and pianist. Her style was a distinctive hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, mixed with elements of jazz, gospel music, rhythm and blues, show tunes and rock music....
  
• "Stand By Your Man" w.m. Billy Sherrill & Tammy Wynette
  Tammy Wynette
  
  Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an United States and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
  
• "Stoned Soul Picnic" w.m. Laura Nyro
  Laura Nyro
  
  Laura Nyro was an United States composer, lyricist, singer and pianist. Her style was a distinctive hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, mixed with elements of jazz, gospel music, rhythm and blues, show tunes and rock music....
  
• "Sweet Blindness" w.m. Laura Nyro
  Laura Nyro
  
  Laura Nyro was an United States composer, lyricist, singer and pianist. Her style was a distinctive hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, mixed with elements of jazz, gospel music, rhythm and blues, show tunes and rock music....
  
• "Take Ten Terrific Girls' w. Lee Adams m. Charles Strouse from the film The Night They Raided Minsky's
  The Night They Raided Minsky's
  
  The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 musical comedy film directed by William Friedkin and produced by Norman Lear. It is a fictional account of the invention of the striptease at Minsky's Burlesque in 1925....
  
• Ten Feet off the Ground w.m. Richard M. Sherman
  Richard M. Sherman
  
  Richard Morton Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert B. Sherman. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the theme park song, "...
   & Robert B. Sherman
  Robert B. Sherman
  
  Robert Bernard Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard M. Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the them...
   from the film The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
  The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
  
  The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band is a 1968 in film musical film based on the novel Nebraska by Laura Bower Van Nuys, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Michael O'Herlihy....
  
• "This Guy's In Love With You" w. Hal David
  Hal David
  
  Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
   m. Burt Bacharach
  Burt Bacharach
  
  Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
  
• "Wichita Lineman" w.m. Jimmy Webb
  Jimmy Webb
  
  Jimmy Layne Webb is an American songwriter. His compositions include "Up, Up and Away ," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston ," and "MacArthur Park "....
  
• "The Windmills of Your Mind
  The Windmills of Your Mind
  
  "The Windmills of Your Mind" is a song with words and music by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Michel Legrand from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair ....
  " w. Alan Bergman
  Alan Bergman
  
  Alan Bergman is a prolific United States lyricist and songwriter.Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA....
   & Marilyn Bergman
  Marilyn Bergman
  
  Marilyn Bergman is a composer, songwriter and author.She was born Marilyn Keith in Brooklyn, New York and studied psychology and English studies at New York University....
   m. Michel LeGrand
  Michel Legrand
  
  Michel Legrand is a France musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenians descent.Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums....
   from the film The Thomas Crown Affair
  The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)
  
  The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 in film movie by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. A The Thomas Crown Affair was released in 1999 in film starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo....
  
• "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" w.m. Richard M. Sherman
  Richard M. Sherman
  
  Richard Morton Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert B. Sherman. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the theme park song, "...
   & Robert B. Sherman
  Robert B. Sherman
  
  Robert Bernard Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard M. Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the them...
   from the film Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
  Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
  
  Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day is an animated featurette based on the last two chapters of Winnie-the-Pooh and the second, eighth, and ninth chapters of The House at Pooh Corner, both by A....
  
• "You Rat, You" w. Lee Adams m. Charles Strouse from the film The Night They Raided Minsky's
  The Night They Raided Minsky's
  
  The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 musical comedy film directed by William Friedkin and produced by Norman Lear. It is a fictional account of the invention of the striptease at Minsky's Burlesque in 1925....
  

• Luciano Berio
  Luciano Berio
  
  Luciano Berio, Italian orders of merit was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental music work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music....
   - O King, Sinfonia, Chemins III
• John Corigliano
  John Corigliano
  
  John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York....
   - Piano Concerto
• George Crumb
  George Crumb
  
  George Crumb is an American composer of modern and avant-garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and extended technique. Examples include spoken flute and glass marbles poured onto an open piano....
   - Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death for baritone, electric guitar, electric double bass, amplified piano/electric harpsichord, and two percussionists
• Mario Davidovsky
  Mario Davidovsky
  
  Mario Davidovsky is an Argentina-United States composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape....
   - Music for Solo Violin
• Heinz Holliger
  Heinz Holliger
  
  Heinz Holliger is a Switzerland oboe, composer and conducting.He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland and began his musical education at the College or university school of music of Bern and Basel....
   - h for wind quintet
• Ladislav Kupkovic
  Ladislav Kupkovic
  
  Ladislav Karol Kupkovic is a Slovaks composer and Conducting.Kupkovic was born in Bratislava, and studied violin and conducting there, first at the conservatory , then at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava....
   - Souvenir (one of his few recorded works)
• Helmut Lachenmann
  Helmut Lachenmann
  
  Helmut Lachenmann is a Germany composer associated with Musique concr?te....
   - temA for flute, voice and cello
• György Ligeti
  György Ligeti
  
  Gy?rgy S?ndor Ligeti was a composer, born in a Hungarian History of the Jews in Romania family in Transylvania, Romania. He briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austrian citizen....
   - Zehn Stücke für Bläserquintett (Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet)
• Witold Lutoslawski
  Witold Lutoslawski
  
  Witold Lutoslawski was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the pre-eminent Poland musicians during his last three decades....
   - Livre pour orchestre
• Per Nørgård
  Per Nørgård
  
  Per N?rg?rd is one of the most important Denmark composers of the twentieth century. Julian Anderson considers his Voyage into the Golden Screen for chamber orchestra to be the first "properly instrumental piece of spectral composition."...
   - Rejse ind i den gyldne skærm (Voyage into the Golden Screen)
• Terry Riley
  Terry Riley
  
  Terry Riley is an American composer associated with the minimalism school....
   - In C
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  
  Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries....
   - Aus den sieben Tagen
  Aus den Sieben Tagen
  
  Aus den sieben Tagen is a collection of 15 text compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in May 1968, in reaction to a personal crisis, and characterized as "Intuitive music"?music produced primarily from the Intuition rather than the Intelligence of the performer....
  
• John Tavener
  John Tavener
  
  Sir John Tavener is a United Kingdom composer,British honours systemed in 2000 for his services to music....
   - The Whale (cantata)
• David Tudor
  David Tudor
  
  David Eugene Tudor was an USA pianist and composer of experimental music.Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano with Stefan Wolpe and became known as one of the leading performers of avant garde piano music....
   & Lowell Cross - Reunion
• Iannis Xenakis
  Iannis Xenakis
  
  Iannis Xenakis was a Greeks modernist composer, musical theoretician, and architect. He is regarded as an important and influential composer of the twentieth century....
   - Nomos Gamma for 98 musicians dispersed among the audience

• Benjamin Britten
  Benjamin Britten
  
  Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
   - The Prodigal Son
  The Prodigal Son (Britten)
  
  The Prodigal Son is an opera by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by William Plomer. Based on the Bible story of the Prodigal Son, this was Britten's third "parable for church performance", after Curlew River and The Burning Fiery Furnace....
  
• Ástor Piazzolla
  Ástor Piazzolla
  
  ?stor Pantale?n Piazzolla was an Argentina tango music composer and bandone?n player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and European classical music....
   - María de Buenos Aires
  María de Buenos Aires
  
  Mar?a de Buenos Aires is a Tango music opera by ?stor Piazzolla. It premiered at the Sala Planeta in Buenos Aires in May 1968. The libretto was written by Horacio Ferrer....
  

• Cabaret
  Cabaret (musical)
  
  Cabaret is a Musical theater with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. The 1966 Broadway theatre production became a hit and spawned an acclaimed 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
  (Kander and Ebb
  Kander and Ebb
  
  Kander and Ebb were a highly successful songwriting team consisting of composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb . Known primarily for their stage musical theatre, Kander and Ebb also scored several movies including their most famous song, Theme from New York, New York from Martin Scorsese New York, New York ....
  ) - London production
• Canterbury Tales
  Canterbury Tales - Musical
  
  Canterbury Tales is a musical originally presented at the Oxford Playhouse in 1964, conceived and directed by Martin Starkie and written by Nevill Coghill & Martin Starkie....
       London production
• Dames at Sea
  Dames at Sea
  
  Dames at Sea is a musical theatre with book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller and music by Jim Wise.The musical is a parody of large, flashy 1930s Busby Berkeley-style movie musicals in which an understudy steps into a role on Broadway theatre and becomes a star....
       Off-Broadway production opened at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre
  Bouwerie Lane Theatre
  
  The Bouwerie Lane Theatre was an off-Broadway theatre venue. It was located at 330 Bowery in New York City, inhabited by the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre from 1974 until 2006....
   on December 20 and transferred to the Theatre de Lys on April 22, 1969 for a total run of 575 performances.
• The Dancing Years
  The Dancing Years
  
  The Dancing Years is a musical theatre with book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Christopher Hassall. The piece is one of Novello's most popular musicals....
  (Ivor Novello
  Ivor Novello
  
  David Ivor Davies , better known as Ivor Novello, was a Wales composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the early 20th century....
  ) - London revival
• Darling of the Day
  Darling of the Day (musical)
  
  Darling of the Day is a musical theatre with a book by Nunnally Johnson, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, and music by Jule Styne. It is based on Arnold Bennett's novel Buried Alive and his play The Great Adventure....
  (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  
  Jule Styne was a United Kingdom-born United States songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway theatre musical theatre, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows....
  ) Broadway production opened at the George Abbott Theatre on January 27 and ran for 31 performances. Starred Patricia Routledge
  Patricia Routledge
  
  Katherine Patricia Routledge, Order of the British Empire is an English people actor and singer. In addition to her roles in British television, she has had a long and successful career in musical theatre, as well as in film....
   and Vincent Price
  Vincent Price
  
  Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an United States film actor, remembered for his distinctive voice, his 6-foot 4-inch stature and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films done in the latter part of his career....
  
• George M!
  George M!
  
  George M! is a musical theatre with a book by Michael Stewart , John Pascal, and Francine Pascal and music and lyrics by George M. Cohan, based on the life of Cohan, the biggest Broadway theatre star of his day....
       Broadway production
• Golden Boy
  Golden Boy
  
  Golden Boy is a play by Clifford Odets. Odets' biggest hit was made into a 1939 in film Golden Boy , starring William Holden in his breakthrough role, and also served as the basis for a Golden Boy ....
       London production
• Golden Rainbow
  Golden Rainbow
  
  Golden Rainbow is the title of a musical theatre that ran on Broadway theatre from February 4, 1968 until January 11, 1969. The musical opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway; the stars, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorm?, were already well-known from their extensive work in music, film and television during the 1950s and 1960s....
       Broadway production
• Hair
  Hair (musical)
  
  Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot....
  - Broadway and London productions
• House of Flowers
  House of Flowers (musical)
  
  House of Flowers is a musical theatre by Harold Arlen and Truman Capote , based on his own novella. This was Capote's only musical, and is the first theatrical production outside of Trinidad and Tobago to feature the new Caribbean instrument - the steel pan....
       off-Broadway revival
• Lady, Be Good!
  Lady Be Good (musical)
  
  Lady, Be Good is the title of a Broadway theatre musical play that was written by Guy Bolton, Fred Thompson , featured music by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin....
       London revival
• Man Of La Mancha
  Man of La Mancha
  
  Man of La Mancha is a musical theater with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote....
       London production
• Promises, Promises
  Promises, Promises
  
  Promises, Promises is a musical theatre based on the 1960 film The Apartment by Billy Wilder. The music is by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, and book by Neil Simon....
       Broadway production
• The Happy Time
  The Happy Time (musical)
  
  The Happy Time is a musical theatre with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a book by N. Richard Nash loosely based on a 1950 hit Broadway theatre play, The Happy Time by Samuel A....
  - musical/comedy - 286 performances at the Broadway Theatre featuring Robert Goulet
  Robert Goulet
  
  Robert Gerard Goulet was a Canadian-United States Grammy Award- and Tony Award- winning entertainer. He rose to international stardom in 1960 as Lancelot in Lerner and Loewe's hit Broadway theatre musical Camelot ....
   1968 Tony Award
  Tony Award
  
  The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
   winner for Best Actor in a Musical. Nominee 1968 Tony Award
  Tony Award
  
  The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
   Best Musical.

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film)
  
  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 in film feature film with a script by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes, and songs by the Sherman Brothers, based on Ian Fleming's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang....
  
• Finian's Rainbow
  Finian's Rainbow (film)
  
  Finian's Rainbow is a 1968 in film United States film musical theatre directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy is based on their Finian's Rainbow....
  
• Funny Girl
  Funny Girl (film)
  
  Funny Girl is a musical film based on Funny Girl . The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of Broadway theatre and film star and comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein....
  
• The Jungle Book
  The Jungle Book (1967 film)
  
  The Jungle Book is a 1967 in film Animation feature film, released on October 18, 1967. The 19th animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, it was the last to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production....
  - animated feature film
• The Night They Raided Minsky's
  The Night They Raided Minsky's
  
  The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 musical comedy film directed by William Friedkin and produced by Norman Lear. It is a fictional account of the invention of the striptease at Minsky's Burlesque in 1925....
  - released December 22 starring Jason Robards
  Jason Robards
  
  Jason Nelson Robards, Jr., was an Academy Award & Emmy Award-winning United States actor and a World War II United States Navy combat veteran. He became famous playing works of United States dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and would regularly play O'Neill's works throughout his career....
   and Britt Ekland
  Britt Ekland
  
  Britt Ekland is a Sweden actress long resident in the United Kingdom. Best known for her role as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun , her marriage to actor Peter Sellers, and for her high-profile social life....
  
• Oliver!
  Oliver! (film)
  
  Oliver! is a 1968 in film musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart....
  
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
  The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
  
  The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band is a 1968 in film musical film based on the novel Nebraska by Laura Bower Van Nuys, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Michael O'Herlihy....
  
• Star!
  Star! (film)
  
  Star! is a 1968 in film United States musical film biographical film directed by Robert Wise. The screenplay by William Fairchild is a highly fictionalized account of the life and career of British performer Gertrude Lawrence....
  
• Yellow Submarine
  Yellow Submarine (film)
  
  Yellow Submarine is a 1968 in film animation feature film based on the music of The Beatles. It is also the title for the soundtrack album to the feature film, released as part of The Beatles' music catalogue....
  - animated feature film

• January 18 - Gribouille
  Gribouille
  
  Marie-France Ga?t?, a singer better known as Gribouille, was born on July 17, 1941 in Lyon, France and died on January 18, 1968 in Paris, France....
  , French singer
• February 5 - Luckey Roberts
  Luckey Roberts
  
  Charles Luckeyeth Roberts, better known as Luckey Roberts was a composer and stride pianist who worked in the jazz, ragtime, and blues styles....
  , ragtime composer and pianist
• February 13
• Ildebrando Pizzetti
  Ildebrando Pizzetti
  
  Ildebrando Pizzetti was an Italy composer of classical music.Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880. He was part of the "Generation of 1880" along with Ottorino Respighi and Gian Francesco Malipiero....
  , composer
• Portia White
  Portia White
  
  Portia May Whitehead , was a singer who achieved international fame because of her voice and stage presence. As an Black Canadians, her popularity helped to open previously closed doors for talented blacks who followed....
  , singer
• February 15 - Little Walter
  Little Walter
  
  Little Walter was a blues singer, harmonica player, and guitarist.Jacobs is generally included among blues music greats?his revolutionary harmonica technique has earned comparisons to Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix in its impact....
  , blues singer and harmonica player
• February 28
• Frankie Lymon
  Frankie Lymon
  
  Franklin Joseph "Frankie" Lymon was an African-American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of a New York City-based early rock and roll musical group called The Teenagers....
  , American singer
• Doretta Morrow
  Doretta Morrow
  
  Doretta Morrow was an United States actress and dancer. Miss Morrow was born Doretta Marano in Brooklyn, New York and died in London, UK....
  , dancer
• March 6 - Iša Krejcí
  Iša Krejcí
  
  I?a Krejc? was a Czech people Neoclassicism composer, Conducting and dramaturg. He studied history and musicology at Charles University and concurrently piano playing with A....
  , composer and conductor
• March 10 - Blind Joe Reynolds
  Blind Joe Reynolds
  
  "Blind Joe" Reynolds was a singer-songwriter thought to have been born in Tallulah, Louisiana in 1904, although his death certificate states his birthplace as Arkansas in 1900....
  , singer-songwriter
• March 16 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
  Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
  
  Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italy List of composers. Born in Florence, he was descended from a prominent banking family that had lived in the city since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492....
  , composer
• March 26 - Little Willie John
  Little Willie John
  
  William Edward John, better known by the stage name Little Willie John was an American R&B singer of the 1950s and early 1960s, best known for his hits "All Around the World" and the cover version "Fever " , a tune copied by Peggy Lee and made famous in 1958....
  , Blues artist.
• April 25 - Harald Kreutzberg
  Harald Kreutzberg
  
  Harald Kreutzberg was a German dancer and choreographer.Trained at the Dresden Ballet School, Kreutzberg also studied dance with Mary Wigman and Rudolf Laban....
  , dancer and choreographer
• May 19 - Coleman Hawkins
  Coleman Hawkins
  
  Coleman Randolph Hawkins , nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was a prominent jazz Tenor saxophone.He is commonly regarded as the first important and influential jazz musician to use the instrument: Joachim E....
  , jazz musician
• May 24 - Bernard Rogers
  Bernard Rogers
  
  Bernard Rogers was an United States composer.He studied with Arthur Farwell, Ernest Bloch, Percy Goetschius, and Nadia Boulanger. He taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, The Hartt School, and the Eastman School of Music....
  , composer
• June 8 - Bumble Bee Slim
  Bumble Bee Slim
  
  Amos Easton , better known by the stage name Bumble Bee Slim, was a best-selling blues musician in the 1930s....
  , blues musician
• June 14 - Karl-Birger Blomdahl
  Karl-Birger Blomdahl
  
  Karl-Birger Blomdahl was a Sweden composer and Conductor born in V?xj?. He was educated in biochemistry, but was primarily active in music and by his experimental compositions he became one of the big names in Swedish modernism....
  , composer and conductor
• June 26 - Ziggy Elman
  Ziggy Elman
  
  Harry Aaron Finkelman , better known by the stage name Ziggy Elman, was an United States jazz trumpeter most associated with Benny Goodman, though he also led his own Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra....
  , US trumpet player
• July 21 - Ruth St. Denis
  Ruth St. Denis
  
  Ruth St. Denis was an early modern dance pioneer....
  , dancer
• July 27 - Lilian Harvey
  Lilian Harvey
  
  Lilian Harvey was a British-born German actress and singer....
  , actress and singer
• July 30 - Jón Leifs
  Jón Leifs
  
  J?n Leifs was an Icelandic composer. He left Iceland in 1916 to study in Germany at the Leipzig Conservatory. He graduated in 1921 having studied piano, and then devoted his time to conducting and composing....
  , composer
• August 5 - Luther Perkins
  Luther Perkins
  
  Luther Monroe Perkins was an American country music guitarist renowned for his work as a member of the Tennessee Three with Johnny Cash and their "boom-chicka" rhythmic style....
  , guitarist of The Tennessee Two
• August 18 - Arthur Marshall (ragtime composer)
  Arthur Marshall (ragtime composer)
  
  Arthur Marshall was an African-American composer and performer of ragtime music.Marshall was born on a farm in Saline County, Missouri, but a few years later his family moved to Sedalia, Missouri....
  
• September 19 - Red Foley
  Red Foley
  
  Clyde Julian "Red" Foley was an United States singer and musician who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II....
  , country singer
• October 8 - Frank Skinner
  Frank Skinner (composer)
  
  Frank Skinner. American composer and arranger. A graduate of the Chicago Musical College,. At age 16 Frank found early employment in vaudeville and began playing in local areas with his brother Carl on drums....
  , film composer
• October 15 - Franz Reizenstein
  Franz Reizenstein
  
  Franz Reizenstein was a Germany United Kingdom composer and concert-piano....
  , pianist and composer
• October 20 - Bud Flanagan
  Bud Flanagan
  
  Bud Flanagan was a popular England wartime entertainer, born Chaim Reuben Weintrop in Whitechapel, in the East End of London.Early life...
  , music hall star
• October 30 - Pops Foster
  Pops Foster
  
  George Murphy "Pops" Foster was a jazz musician best known for his vigorous playing of the string bass. He also played the tuba and trumpet professionally....
  , jazz musician
• November 8 - Kokomo Arnold
  Kokomo Arnold
  
  Kokomo Arnold was an United States blues musician.Born James Arnold in Lovejoy's Station, Georgia, Georgia , Arnold received his nickname in 1934 after releasing "Old Original Kokomo Blues" for the Decca Records record label; it was a cover version of the Scrapper Blackwell blues song about the Kokomo brand of coffee....
  , blues musician
• November 9 - Jan Johansson
  Jan Johansson
  
  Jan Johansson was a Sweden jazz pianist. He is little known outside Scandinavia, and his records are not widely available, though Jazz p? svenska has sold more than a quarter of a million copies, and is the best selling jazz release ever in Sweden....
  , jazz pianist
• November 11 - Jeanne Demessieux
  Jeanne Demessieux
  
  Jeanne Marie-Madeleine Demessieux , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue....
  , organist, pianist and composer
• December 1 - Nicolae Bretan
  Nicolae Bretan
  
  Nicolae Bretan was a Romanian opera composer, baritone, conductor and music critic.He studied in Cluj-Napoca, Vienna and Budapest before becoming one of the pioneers of Romanian opera - his opera Luceafarul is cited as the first opera in Romanian....
  , composer
• December 9 - Percy Greenbank
  Percy Greenbank
  
  Percy Greenbank was an English lyricist, best known for his contribution of lyrics to a number of successful musical comedies around the turn of the 20th Century....
  , lyricist
• December 19 - Tiberiu Brediceanu
  Tiberiu Brediceanu
  
  Tiberiu Brediceanu was a Romanian composer. He is the father of the composer and conductor Mihai Brediceanu.Born in Lugoj, Brediceanu studied in Blaj and Brasov and worked as a general manager of the Bucharest Opera House....
  , composer
• December 31 - Sabin Dragoi
  Sabin Dragoi
  
  Sabin Dragoi was a Romanian composer and specialist on folk music. His wide output included orchestral and chamber works, film music and operas....
  , composer
• date unknown
• Juan F. Acosta
  Juan F. Acosta
  
  Juan F. Acosta , was a noted Puerto Rico composer and music teacher....
  , composer and music teacher
• Billy Pigg
  Billy Pigg
  
  Billy Pigg was an England player of Northumbrian smallpipes. He was a Vice-President and an influential member of the Northumbrian Pipers Society from 1930 until his death....
  , bagpiper
• Vincenzo Scaramuzza
  Vincenzo Scaramuzza
  
  Vincenzo Scaramuzza was a pianist and music teacher. He taught pianists such as Martha Argerich, Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Daniel Levy, Fausto Zadra and was teacher of Daniel Barenboim's father....
  , pianist

Awards

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1968
  Grammy Awards of 1968
  
  The 10th Grammy Awards were held February 29, 1968. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1967....
  

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1968
  Eurovision Song Contest 1968
  
  The Eurovision Song Contest 1968 was the 13th Eurovision Song Contest. The contest was won by the Spanish song "La, la, la", performed by Massiel....