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1967 Timeline Jan 14 - Gathering of the Tribes, First Human Be-In, 20,000, S.F.
Jan 27 - US, USSR, UK sign treaty banning nuclear weapons in space
Feb - 25,000 US troops sent to Cambodian border
Feb - Beatles release Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Michelle, Yesterday
Mar - Scientist report LSD causes chromosome damage (never validated).
Mar - The Berkeley Barb starts the smokable banana rumor (based upon Donovan's song "Mellow Yellow")
Mar 3 - Alice B. Toklas dies
Mar 18 - First U.S. supertanker wreck. Torrey Canyon spills 90,000 tons of oil onto English shores
Mar 26 - Be-In at Central Park in NY. 10,000 attend
Apr 5 - Grayline starts hippie tours of Haight/Ashbury
Apr 10 - Vietnam Week starts. Draft card burnings and anti-draft demonstrations
Apr 15 - Anti-Vietnam War protest. 400,000 march from Central Park to UN. Speeches by Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin Spock
May - Paul McCartney announces that all the Beatles have "dropped acid."
May 19 - First U.S. air strike on Hanoi
May 20 - Flower Power Day in NYC 1967
June- Farmington High Schools Class of 1967 Graduated.
Jun 2 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by the Beatles released.
Jun 16 - Monterey Pop Festival
Jun 21 - Summer Solstice Party in Golden Gate Park
Jun 25 - Beatles sing "All You Need Is Love" on TV 1967
Jun 30 - 448,400 US troops now in Vietnam
July - The Summer of Love in San Francisco
July - Summer of Rioting in the US. Blacks take to the streets in Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland and Baltimore
July 1 - Sgt. Pepper hits #1
July 11 - Newark riots start long hot summer
July 24 - 43 Die in Detroit Rioting, worst in U.S. history
July 26 - H. Rap Brown arrested for inciting a riot in Maryland
July 29 - Door's Light My Fire and Procol Harem's Whiter Shade of Pale vie for #1
Aug 26 - Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced" hits the charts
Aug 27 - Beatles in India with Maharishi informed of Brian Epstein's death
Sept - Richard Alpert meets Bhagwan Dass at the Blue Tibetan in Katmandu, stays in India & follows him until he meets his guru.
Sept 15 - Donovan performs at the Hollywood Bowl
Oct 3 - Woody Guthrie dies
Oct 8 - Che Guevarra killed in Bolivia by US-trained troops
Oct 12 - Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills with Janis Joplin at top of LP charts.
Oct 20 - Seven KKK members convicted of conspiracy in 1964 murders of three civil rights worker
Oct 21-22 - Anti-war protesters storm the Pentagon
Oct 21 - "Diggers" exorcise the Pentagon. 35,000 Demonstrate, 647 arrested
Oct 26 - Draft deferments eliminated for those who violate draft laws or interfere with recruitment
Nov 14 - Air Quality Act provides $428 million to fight air pollution
Nov 20 - National Commission on Product Safety established
Dec - Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
Dec - 486,000 American troops in Vietnam, of the 15,000 killed to date, 60% died in 1967.
Dec - "Stop the Draft" movement organized by 40 antiwar groups, nationwide protests ensue.
Dec 5 - 1000 antiwar protesters try to close NYC induction center. 585 arrested including Allen Ginsberg and Dr. Benjamin Spock
Dec 5 - Beatles open Apple Shop in London
Dec 8 - Otis Redding records "Dock of the Bay"
Dec 10 - Otis Redding dies in plane crash
Dec 22 - Owsley busted, stops making acid
Dec 31 - Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory, & friends pronounce themselves "Yippies"
 Where Were You?
In The Summer Of 1967* Please e-mail us and let us know what you were doing.... * After graduation I went to New York where I got a job working at a camp in the Catskills. On our days off we would go into the city and to the Village where I met and was able to learn from some of the local artists. It was a lot of fun and a great learning experience before coming back home and starting college. Jan (Eisenlord) Emery * While the blacks were setting fire to Detroit, I was on my uncle's farm in PA enjoying my last days of freedom before reporting to the Navy and the Vietnam war.
Fred Gregg
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click here to play sound Here are some of the Top 5 songs of the weekly Top 40 as well as the album artists of 1967:
The Monkees (Daydream Believer, Pleasant Valley Sunday)
The Doors (The Doors, Light My Fire, Strange Days)
Aretha Franklin (Respect)
Steppenwolf
The Young Rascals (Groovin')
The Mamas & Papas (Creeque Alley, Words of Love, Dedicated To One I Love)
The Turtles (Happy Together)
The Byrds
The Association (Windy, Never My Love)
The Jefferson Airplane (Surrealistic Pillow, Somebody to Love, White Rabbit)
Peter, Paul and Mary (Album 1700)
Buckinghams (Kind of a Drag)
The Supremes (The Happening)
Scott McKenzie (San Francisco: Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)
Rolling Stones (Ruby Tuesday)
Strawberry Alarm Clock (Incense and Peppermint)
The Cowsills (The Rain, The Park and Other Things)
Jimi Hendrix
Bob Dylan
Buffalo Springfield (For What It's Worth)
The 5th. Dimension (Up, Up & Away)
Electric Prunes (I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night)
Bill Cosby (Revenge)
The Who (I Can See For Miles)
Laura Nyro
The Beatles (Sgt. Pepper, All You Need Is Love, Penny Lane)
Frankie Valli and 4 Seasons (Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
The Boxtops (The Letter)
To Sir With Love (Lulu)
Procol Harum (Whiter Shade of Pale)
Tommy James & The Shondells (I Think We're Alone Now)
As 1967 television (Star Trek) and movies (The Graduate) reflected a new spirit of idealism (and a lot of questioning by young people), so did the music,
some of it coming from a folk tradition, some a harder rock edge with roots in everything from blues to a new sound born of the Beach Boys Pet Sounds the year before and continued by the Beatles with Sgt. Pepper....
Music reflected the growing domestic conflict of the War in Vietnam, experiments with drugs (particularly psychedelics), the continuing civil rights struggle and its leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , a maturing of the British Sound (groups like The Who) and new regional sounds, notably from LA (The Byrds, Steppenwolf) and San Francisco.
"Progressive" rock radio, playing album cuts, flourished in cities like New York, Boston and San Francisco at the same time that "Top 40" or "hit radio"
continued playing pop singles from groups like The Monkees or The Mamas and Papas.
The Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever" sparked a mystery when people thought they heard the message, "I Buried Paul," when they played it backwards.
The Beatles said it was, instead, "Cranberry Sauce!"
Artists who had performed in the mid-June, 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, just 2 hours south of San Francisco, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin,
The Dead and The Who (in their first ever U.S. appearance) helped orchestrate the Summer of Love, too, as did Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco..." Eric Burdon's
"Down in Monterey" and "San Franciscan Nights," and The Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love."
1967 also saw the spectacular emergence of The Doors and their mega-hit, "Light My Fire." (Jim Morrison founded the group with fellow UCLA graduates and got the
name from Aldoux Huxley's "The Doors of Percerption.)
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