Year-End 1967

1	1	1	Doors--Light My Fire
2	1	1	Box Tops--The Letter
3	1	1	Monkees--I'm a Believer
4	1	1	Bobbie Gentry--Ode to Billie Joe
5	1	1	Association--Windy
6	1	1	Monkees--Daydream Believer
7	1	1	Strawberry Alarm Clock--Incense and Peppermints
8	1	3	Bobby Vee--Come Back When You Grow Up
9	1	1	Lulu--To Sir With Love
10	1	1	Turtles--Happy Together
11	13	2	Seekers--Georgy Girl
12	4	8	Jefferson Airplane--White Rabbit
13	4/2	5/49	Nancy Sinatra--Sugar Town/Summer Wine
14	3/B	1/34	Beatles--All You Need is Love/Baby You're a Rich Man
15	1	6	Every Mother's Son--Come on Down to My Boat
16	2	4	Scott McKenzie--San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
17	2	5	Paul Revere & the Raiders--Him or Me - What's it Gonna Be?
18	1	2	Music Explosion--Little Bit o' Soul
19	2	2	Monkees--A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You
20	5/1	8/1	Beatles--Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane
21	2	9	Cher--You Better Sit Down Kids
22	1	4	Tommy James and the Shondells--I Think We're Alone Now
23	2	1	Young Rascals--Groovin'
24	2	1	Buckinghams--Kind of a Drag
25	1	2	Association--Never My Love
26	3	9	Peter, Paul & Mary--I Dig Rock and Roll Music
27	11	2	Frankie Valli--Can't Take My Eyes Off You
28	1	56	Don and the Goodtimes--I Could Be So Good to You
29	1	1	Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra--Somethin' Stupid
30	1	55	Rolling Stones--Let's Spend the Night Together
31	4	36	Seeds--Pushin' Too Hard
32	3	16	Small Faces--Itchycoo Park
33	2	4	Herman's Hermits--There's a Kind of Hush
34	3	3	Johnny Rivers--Baby I Need Your Lovin'
35	3	14	Janis Ian--Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)
36	2	2	Cowsills--The Rain, the Park & Other Things
37	3	5	Five Americans--Western Union
38	10	2	Stevie Wonder--I Was Made to Love Her
39	1/2	1/56	Beatles--Hello Goodbye/I Am the Walrus
40	6	9	Who--I Can See For Miles
41	2	3	Monkees--Pleasant Valley Sunday
42	8	1	Aretha Franklin--Respect
43	3	2	Diana Ross and the Supremes--Reflections
44	5	11	Tremeloes--Silence is Golden
45	7	3	Happenings--I Got Rhythm
46	3	4	Bill Cosby--Little Ole Man (Uptight - Everything's Alright)
47	4	4	Young Rascals--How Can I Be Sure
48	6	5	Jefferson Airplane--Somebody to Love
49	5	---	Bards--Never Too Much Love
50	3	3	Turtles--She'd Rather Be With Me

Way out of sequence, but here’s the Year-End survey for 1967. The oddest inclusion is the Seekers’ “Georgy Girl,” which only peaked at number 13, only spent ten weeks on the survey, and yet is ranked the 11^th most popular record of the year. Also surprising is Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” but it at least spent a healthy 14 weeks on the survey.

Surprising omissions: “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron” by the Royal Guardsmen debuted 12-2-66, was on the survey through 2-3-67, was number one 12-9 through 1-20, and did not appear on the 1966 Year-End survey, so I had expected to see it here. Other top-three hits that do not appear:

Hollies—Carrie-Anne (peaked at #2, 14 weeks on survey)

Buffalo Springfield—For What It’s Worth (2, 13)

Spencer Davis Group—Gimme Some Lovin’ (3, 15)

Hollies—On a Carousel (3, 14)

Box Tops—Neon Rainbow (3, 12)

Fifth Estate—Ding Dong the Witch is Dead (3, 11)

Van Morrison—Brown-Eyed Girl (3, 11)

Grass Roots—Let’s Live For Today (3, 10)

Beach Boys—Wild Honey (3, 10)

Blues Magoos—(We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet (3, 9)

Nancy Sinatra—Lightning’s Girl (3, 8)

Nancy Sinatra—Until It’s Time For You to Go (3, 7)

Royal Guardsmen—Snoopy’s Christmas (3, 7)

(Somehow I can't get the columns right for the two-sided hits. Sugar Town and Summer Wine were 5 and 49 in Billboard, All You Need is Love and Baby You're a Rich Man were 1 and 34, and Hello Goodbye and I Am the Walrus were 1 and 56.)