1967 Groovy Baby!
Songs
To Sir With Love - Lulu
Light
My Fire - Doors
Can't
Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli
Happy
Together - The Turtles
Groovin
- The Young Rascals
The
Letter - The Box Tops
Windy
- The Association
Georgy
Girl - The Seekers
Respect
- Aretha Franklin
Ode
To Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
I'm A
Believer - The Monkees
Somethin'
Stupid - Nancy & Frank Sinatra
Apples,
Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques
Expressway
To Your Heart - The Soul Survivors
All
You Need Is Love - The Beatles
How
Can I Be Sure - The Young Rascals
I
Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James & The Shondells
The
Happening - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Penny
Lane - The Beatles
I've
Been Lonely Too Long - The Young Rascals
Ruby
Tuesday - The Rolling Stones
Kind
Of A Drag - The Buckinghams
Jimmy
Mack - Martha & The Vandellas
Reflections
- Diana Ross & The Supremes
Love
Is Here And Now You're Gone - Diana Ross & The Supremes
I Got
Rhythm - The Happenings
Little
Bit Me, A Little Bit You - The Monkees
Never
My Love - The Association
This
Is My Song - Petula Clark
I Was
Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder
Snoopy
Vs The Red Baron - The Royal Guardsmen
Gimme
Some Lovin' - The Spencer Davis Group
Pleasant
Valley Sunday - The Monkees
A
Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
She'd
Rather Be With Me - The Turtles
Soul
Man - Sam And Dave
Dedicated
To The One I Love - The Mamas & The Papas
It
Must Be Him - Vikki Carr
There's
A Kind Of Hush - Herman's Hermits
Bernadette
- The Four Tops
Come
Back When You Grow Up - Bobby Vee
The
Rain, The Park & Other Things - The Cowsills
Gimme
A Little Sign - Brenton Wood
Incense
& Peppermints - The Strawberry Alarm Clock
Sock
It To Me, Baby - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
Baby,
I Love You - Aretha Franklin
I
Wanna Testify - The Parliaments
You're
My Everything - The Temptations
Tell
It Like It Is - Aaron Neville
Let's
Live For Today - The Grass Roots
Sweet
Soul Music - Arthur Conley
Come
On Down To My Boat - Every Mother's Son
A
Girl Like You - The Young Rascals
Somebody
To Love - Jefferson Airplane
Sunday
Will Never Be The Same - Spanky & Our Gang
Funky
Broadway - Wilson Pickett
Standing
In The Shadows Of Love - The Four Tops
Dandelion
- The Rolling Stones
Society's
Child - Janis Ian
Girl,
You'll Be A Woman Soon - Neil Diamond
Please
Love Me Forever - Bobby Vinton
Release
Me - Englebert Humperdinck
98.6
- Keith
Don't
Let The Rain Fall Down On Me - The Critters
Alfie
- Dionne Warwick
Then
You Can Tell Me Goodbye - The Casinos
Friday
On My Mind - The Easybeats
San
Francisco, Wear Some Flowers - Scott Mckenzie
Daydream
Believer - The Monkees
People
Are Strange - The Doors
We
Ain't Got Nothing Yet - The Blues Magoos
C'mon
Marianne - The Four Seasons
White
Rabbit - Airplane
Up,
Up And Away - The Fifth Dimension
Hey
Leroy - Jimmy Castor
Winchester
Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band
That's
Life - Frank Sinatra
Creeque
Alley - The Mamas & The Papas
Ain't
No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Pata
Pata - Miriam Makeba
Good
Thing - Paul Revere & The Raiders
Soul
Finger - The Barkays
Make
Me Yours - Bettye Swann
California
Nights - Lesley Gore
Natural
Woman - Aretha Franklin
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Sadie
the Cleaning Lady - John Farnham
59th
Street Bridge Song - Harper's Bazarre
Word
Of Love - The Mamas & The Papas
Tell
It To The Rain - The Four Seasons
All I
Need - The Temptations
Stand
By Me - Spyder Turner
Devil
With A Blue Dress On - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
Mirage
- Tommy James & The Shondells
Close
Your Eyes - Peaches & Herb
Portrait
Of My Love - The Tokens
Lady
- Jack Jones
Mercy
Mercy Mercy - Cannonball Adderly
Boogaloo
Down Broadway - Fantastic Johnny C
Higher
& Higher - Jackie Wilson
Movies
Abortion!
Accident
A Fistful of Dollars
The Anniversary
Barefoot in the Park
Bonnie & Clyde
Born Losers
Bedazzled
Best of Laurel & Hardy
Camelot
Clambake
C'mon Let's Live a Little
Come Spy with Me
Cool Hand Luke
Corruption of the Damned
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
A covenant with Death
Creature of Destruction
The Degenerates
Depraved
Devils' Angels
Diary of a Swinger
The Dirty Dozen
Divorce American Style
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor, You've Got to be Kidding
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
Double Trouble
Easy Come, Easy Go
Eat your Make-up!
Eclipse of the Sun Virgin
El Dorado
Fanny Hill Meets Dr. Erotico
Fanny Hill Meets Lady Chatterley
The Fastest Guitar Alive
Fearless Frank
Fitzwilly
Five the Hard Way
The Flim-Flam Man
For a Few Dollars More
The Games People Play
The Gnome Mobile
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Gunfight in Abilene
The Happening
The Happiest Millionaire
Hells Angels on Wheels
Hotel
The House of Seven Gables
How to Succeed in Business Without Trying
I Am Curious
In Cold Blood
Island of the Lost
It!
Jungle Book
Mama's Hung You in the Closet .. Feeling So Sad
Movin' with Nancy
The Night of the Generals
The Perils of Pauline
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Ride to Hangman's Tree
Rough Night in Jericho
Run Like a Thief
The Shooting
Something Weird
Tammy & the Millionaire
Tarzan and the Great River
Tarzan and the Mountains of the Moon
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion
A Taste of Blood
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Three Bites of the Apple
Thunder Alley
Two for the Road
Valley of the Dolls
The War Wagon
Wait Until Dark
You Only Live Twice
and many more, some more forgettable than others
Academy Awards
Best Actor - Rode Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
Best Actress - Katherine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best Supporting Actor - George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke
Best Supporting Actress - Estelle Parsons - Bonnie & Clyde
Best Picture - In the Heat of the Night
Best Director - Mike Nichols - The Graduate
Bestselling Books
Fiction
The Arrangement - Elia Kazan
The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
The Chosen - Chaim Potok
Topaz - Leon Uris
Christy - Catherine Marshall
The Eighth Day - Thornton Wilder
Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
The Gabriel Hounds - Mary Stewart
The Exhibitionist - Henry Sutton
Non Fiction
Death of a President - William Manchester
Misery is a Blind Date - Johnny Carson
Games People Play - Eric Berne, MD
A Modern Priest Looks at His Out-Dated Church - Fr James Kavanaugh
Everything But Money - Sam Levenson
Our Crown - Stephen Birmingham
Phyllis Diller's Marriage Manual
Stanyan Street (poetry), Rod McKuen
Edgar Cayce - The Sleeping Prophet - Jess Stearn
Better Homes 7 Gardens Favourite Ways in Chicken
Pulitzer Fiction
The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
Pulitzer non-Fiction
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture - David Brion Davis
Remember A bunch of Ratbags by William Dick?
Television
The Andy Griffith Show
The Lucy Show
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Gunsmoke
Family Affair
Bonanza
The Red Skelton Hour
The Dean Martin Show
The Jackie Gleason Show
Bewitched
The Beverley Hillbillies
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Virginian
Lassie
Green Acres
The Lawrence Welk Show
Smothers Brothers
Gentle Ben
Pick-a-Box
Australian Bandstand
The Black & White Minstrel Show
Z Cars
My Three Sons
Four Corners
The Avengers
Combat
The Beverly Hillbillys
The Saint
Petticoat Junction
Dr Who
Peyton Place
The Man from UNCLE
Daniel Boone
Mavis Bramston Show
Bewitched
Till Death Us Do Part
Homicide
Lost in Space
Batman
I Dream of Jeannie
Hogan's Heroes
Get Smart
The Monkees
Star Trek
Mission Impossible
The Flying Nun
Ironside
The Prisoner
Hunter
Mannix
Bellbird
This Day Tonight
In Melbourne Tonight
Play School
Here's Humphrey
Bellbird
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Andy Williams Show
The Avengers
Bewitched
The Big Valley
Carol Burnett Show
Captain Kangaroo
Combat
Family Affair
Flipper
Flying Nun
The Fugitive
High Chaparral
Ironside
The Jack Benny Show
Lost in Space
McHales Navy
Mr Ed
The Munsters
My Mother the Car
The Patty Duke Show
Perry Mason
Rawhide
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Coronation Street
Steptoe & Son
Some older shows which were on in the 60's and also some later ones were Skippy, Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, Wagon Train, Twilight Zone, Land of the Giants, Disneyland and Rifleman to name a few.
Emmy Awards - Drama
Best Drama - Mission: Impossible
Best Actor - Bill Cosby - I Spy
Best Actress - Barbara Bain - Mission Impossible
Best Supporting Actor - Eli Wallach, Xerox Special - The Poppy is Also a Flower
Best Supporting Actress - Agnes Moorehead - The Wild Wild West
Emmy Awards - Comedy
Best Comedy - Get Smart
Best Actor - Don Adams - Get Smart
Best Actress - Lucille Ball - The Lucy Show
Best Supporting Actor - Don Knotts - The Andy Griffith Show
Best Supporting Actress - Frances Bavier - The Andy Griffith Show
Best Variety - The Andy Griffith Show
News & Current Affairs
| Feb 3 | Ronald Ryan, the last person executed in Australia, is hanged in Melbourne for killing a warder while escaping from Pentridge on 9 Dec 1965. |
| Feb 7 | Bushfires ravage south-east Tasmania, penetrating Hobart, more than 50 people killed and more than 3,000 made homeless |
| Feb 8 | E.G. Whitlam replaces Arthur Calwell as leader of the federal ALP |
| Feb 24 | Princess Alexandra visits Australia |
| Mar 1 | Prince Philip visits Australia |
| Mar 13 | Record Floods in Northern Queensland |
| Mar 17 | Honeysuckle Creek space tracking station, near Canberra, opened |
| Mar 30 | South East Asia Commonwealth telephone cable officially opened |
| March | Gurindji people occupy part of Wave Hill station, Northern Territory |
| Apr 10 | This Day Tonight television program begins on ABC TV |
| Apr 29 | Referendum held in northern NSW on a proposal to create a new state; majority opposed. Bolte government re-elected in Victoria with a 44 seat majority |
| May 1 | National campaign of immunization against poliomyelitis with Sabin oral vaccine begins |
| May 16 | Liberal members of parliament call for a new inquiry into the Voyager sinking in 1964 |
| May 27 | Referendum - proposal to end constitutional discrimination against Aborigines approved |
| May 29 | Five dollar note goes into circulation |
| May 31 | Oil strike in Kingfish well in Bass Strait |
| Jun 1 | D. A. Dunstan becomes Premier of South Australia |
| Jun 5 | Total wage concept introduced by the Commonwealth Arbitration Commission to replace the basic wage plus margins |
| July | Postcode system introduced |
| Sep 1 | Commonwealth Trade Practices Act comes into force |
| Sep 8 | Police arrest 114 demonstrators in Brisbane protesting against changes in the law governing street marches |
| Sep 17 | Prime Minister holt announces that Australia would increase its military aid to South Vietnam by another battalion and support groups |
| Nov 20 | Fixed rate of exchange between the Australian dollar and the pound sterling ends when Australia decides not to devalue in line with sterling |
| Nov 29 | Australia's first satellite, WRESAT 1, successfully launched from Woomera Rocket Range |
| Dec 17 | Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears in the surf at Cheviot Beach, Portsea, his body never found |
| Dec 19 | Country Party leader John McEwen sworn in as Prime Minister |
| Dec 22 | Representatives of 26 nations, including President Johnson and Prince Charles, attend the Holt memorial service in Melbourne |
| General | Judy Cassab, Margo Lewers, wins the Archibald Prize |
| Talkback radio begins | |
| Thomas Keneally, Bring Larks and Heroes (Miles Franklin Award winner) | |
| Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock | |
| John Newcombe wins the men's singles at Wimbledon | |
| Australia (Newcombe & Roy Emmerson) sins the David Cup | |
| Australia challenges for the America's Cup (Dame Pattie beaten by Intrepid) | |
| Red Handed wins the Melbourne Cup | |
| Estimated population of Australia 11,912,253 | |
| Commonwealth subsidises sheltered workshops and introduces the Sheltered Employment Allowance | |
| South Australia's Simpson Desert Conservation Park & Queensland's Simpson Desert National Park proclaimed |
Fashion
disposable clothes chokers
Paisley
false eyelashes flairs
Twiggy
long
collars
Prue
Acton
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