It was on this day, September 30th 1967 that BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show.

Top Singles in Canada, this day in 1967 ...
(some songs were double AA or charted at the exact same position, so as you can see, it throws off the numbers lol)




TW | LW | ARTIST / SONG

01 | 05 | Rolling Stones - Dandelion
01 | 05 | Rolling Stones - We Love You
02 | 03 | Ugly Ducklings - Gaslight
04 | 09 | Association - Never My Love
05 | 06 | Bill Cosby - Little Ole Man (Uptight-Everything's Alright)
06 | 10 | Brenton Wood - Gimme Little Sign
07 | 08 | Frankie Valli -  I Make A Fool Of Myself
07 | 03 | Box Tops - The Letter
08 | 22 | Bunny Sigler - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
10 | 02 | Paul Revere and the Raiders - I Had A Dream
11 | 11 | Jackie Wilson -  (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher
12 | 28 | Young Rascals - How Can I Be Sure
14 | 09 | Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe
14 | 11 | Janice Harper -  Bon Vovage
15 | 14 | Lulu - To Sir With Love
16 | 15 | Peter, Paul & Mary - I Dig Rock And Roll Music
17 | 13 | Wilson Pickett - Funky Broadway
18 | 23 | Traffic - Hole In My Shoe
19 | 14 | Bobby Vee -  Come Back When You Grow Up
19 | 30 | Esquires - Get On Up
20 | 16 | Tommy James and the Shondells - Getting' Together
22 | 50 | Buckinghams - Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)
23 | 13 | Sonny & Cher - It's The Little Things
24 | 33 | Petula Clark - Cat In The Window, The (The Bird In The Sky)
25 | 29 | Jimmie Rodgers - Child Of Clay
26 | 32 | Four Tops - You Keep Me Running Away
28 | 20 | Donovan - There Is A Mountain
29 | 39 | Doors - People Are Strange
29 | 23 | Jay & The Techniques - Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie
30 | 36 | Tom Jones - I'll Never Fall In Love Again
31 | 34 | King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew
31 | 21 | Supremes - Reflections
32 | 35 | Martha & The Vandellas - Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone
33 | 47 | Vikki Carr - It Must Be Him
34 | 21 | Herman's Hermits - Museum
35 | 37 | Marvin Gaye - Your Precious Love
35 | 27 | Animals - San Franciscan Nights
36 | 41 | Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels - What Now My Love
38 | --- | Engelbert Humperdinck - Last Waltz, The
39 | 27 | Mamas & The Papas - Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon)
40 | --- | Nancy Sinatra - Lightning's Girl
41 | 25 | Temptations - You're My Everything
43 | --- | Soul Survivors - Expressway To Your Heart
44 | --- | Happenings - Why Do Fools Fall In Love
46 | --- | Gene & Debbe - Go With Me
47 | 45 | James Brown - Cold Sweat
48 | --- | Tremeloes - Even The Bad Times Are Good
50 | --- | Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense And Peppermints

Tony Blackburn presents the first show.


And somehow he's still going strong!  :o

As Jason's been kind enough to submit the Canadian list for that day (and some fine stuff in there, I might add!), here's our twenty...

1 (1) The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck (forget psychedelia...he was the biggest-selling singles act in Britain that year!  :D)
2 (2) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West (like #13, was meant to be part of an ambitious work, but was never completed)
3 (_8) Flowers In The Rain - The Move (the first record to be played on Radio 1 by the aforementioned Blackburn)
4 (3) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (featuring a 'phasing effect', but not for the first time on record)
5 (7) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes (Motown goes 'psych...sort-of!)
6 (4) Let's Go To San Francisco - Flowerpot Men (shameless cash-in on the 'summer of love' craze, but a superb one)
7 (10) Hole In My Shoe - Traffic
8 (5) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones (co-written and first released by Lonnie Donegan, no less!)
9 (6) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
10 (15) The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard
11 (13) There Must Be A Way - Frankie Vaughan
12 (11) Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes
13 (12) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys
14 (24) The Letter - Box Tops
15 (9) Dandelion/We Love You - Rolling Stones (counted as a 'Double A side' over here)
16 (14) Just Loving You - Anita Harris
17 (31) Massachusettes - Bee Gees (the second record played on Radio 1 that morning!)
18 (18) Black Velvet Band - Dubliners
19 (16) I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder
20 (19) Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix Experience

And somehow he's still going strong!  :o
Tony Blackburn is the King of the Jungle.

As Jason's been kind enough to submit the Canadian list for that day (and some fine stuff in there, I might add!), here's our twenty...

1 (1) The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck (forget psychedelia...he was the biggest-selling singles act in Britain that year!  :D)
2 (2) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West (like #13, was meant to be part of an ambitious work, but was never completed)
3 (_8) Flowers In The Rain - The Move (the first record to be played on Radio 1 by the aforementioned Blackburn)
4 (3) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (featuring a 'phasing effect', but not for the first time on record)
5 (7) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes (Motown goes 'psych...sort-of!)
6 (4) Let's Go To San Francisco - Flowerpot Men (shameless cash-in on the 'summer of love' craze, but a superb one)
7 (10) Hole In My Shoe - Traffic
8 (5) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones (co-written and first released by Lonnie Donegan, no less!)
9 (6) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
10 (15) The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard
11 (13) There Must Be A Way - Frankie Vaughan
12 (11) Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes
13 (12) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys
14 (24) The Letter - Box Tops
15 (9) Dandelion/We Love You - Rolling Stones (counted as a 'Double A side' over here)
16 (14) Just Loving You - Anita Harris
17 (31) Massachusettes - Bee Gees (the second record played on Radio 1 that morning!)
18 (18) Black Velvet Band - Dubliners
19 (16) I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder
20 (19) Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix Experience
I am hoping to catch up with the radio shows on "Listen Again" over the next week.

It was on this day, September 30th 1967 that BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show.
Wow!

As Jason's been kind enough to submit the Canadian list for that day (and some fine stuff in there, I might add!), here's our twenty...

1 (1) The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck (forget psychedelia...he was the biggest-selling singles act in Britain that year!  :D)
2 (2) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West (like #13, was meant to be part of an ambitious work, but was never completed)
3 (_8) Flowers In The Rain - The Move (the first record to be played on Radio 1 by the aforementioned Blackburn)
4 (3) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (featuring a 'phasing effect', but not for the first time on record)
5 (7) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes (Motown goes 'psych...sort-of!)
6 (4) Let's Go To San Francisco - Flowerpot Men (shameless cash-in on the 'summer of love' craze, but a superb one)
7 (10) Hole In My Shoe - Traffic
8 (5) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones (co-written and first released by Lonnie Donegan, no less!)
9 (6) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
10 (15) The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard
11 (13) There Must Be A Way - Frankie Vaughan
12 (11) Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes
13 (12) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys
14 (24) The Letter - Box Tops
15 (9) Dandelion/We Love You - Rolling Stones (counted as a 'Double A side' over here)
16 (14) Just Loving You - Anita Harris
17 (31) Massachusettes - Bee Gees (the second record played on Radio 1 that morning!)
18 (18) Black Velvet Band - Dubliners
19 (16) I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder
20 (19) Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix Experience
I have fond memoriees of hearing Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' at the age of ten years old, may be it was because a child hearing the older children singing on the ecord caught my ear.

I have fond memoriees of hearing Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' at the age of ten years old, may be it was because a child hearing the older children singing on the ecord caught my ear.


I (and I reckon many other people) knew it as 'Grocer Jack'...

Kiddies' voices or not, the song has quite a sinister, chilling message to it...

I (and I reckon many other people) knew it as 'Grocer Jack'...

Kiddies' voices or not, the song has quite a sinister, chilling message to it...
...also the black and white image of when it was on Top of the Pops.

October 2nd 1967

Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.

October 10th 1967

The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, enters into force.

October 11th 1967

Afghan Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal resigns for health reasons

October 12th 1967

Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives were futile because of North Vietnam's opposition

October 13th 1967

The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lost to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California.

October 14th 1967:

Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.

Born October 16th 1967

Davina McCall, British television presenter
Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza

October 17th 1967

The musical Hair opens at the Anspacher Theater on Broadway.

October 19th 1967

The Philadelphia Flyers play the first ever hockey game at the new Spectrum, defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins 1-0.

October 20th 1967 - A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.

October 21st 1967 - Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility (event lasts until October 23; 683 people were arrested). Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.

Was that the march that was featured in Forrest Gump?

November 2nd 1967 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.

November 3rd 1967 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dak To begins.

November 4th 1967 - Racing Club de Avellaneda wins the Intercontinental cup, beating Glasgow Celtic 1-0 at Centenary stadium.

November 5th 1967 - The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.

November 7th 1967


Carl B. Stokes was elected as Mayor of the City of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first Black Mayor of a major American city.
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

November 9th 1967 – French comic book heroes Valérian and Laureline first appeared in the pages of Pilote magazine.

What an awesome year for music! Here are the 50 biggest songs in the U.S. in 1967, according to Billboard magazine:

1.  TO SIR WITH LOVE - Lulu
2.  THE LETTER - Box Tops
3.  ODE TO BILLIE JOE - Bobby Gentry
4.  WINDY - Association
5.  I'M A BELIEVER - Monkees
6.  LIGHT MY FIRE - Doors
7.  SOMETHIN' STUPID - Nancy and Frank Sinatra
8.  HAPPY TOGETHER - Turtles
9.  GROOVIN' - Young Rascals
10. CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU - Frankie Valli

11. LITTLE BIT O' SOUL - Music Explosion
12. I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW - Tommy James & The Shondells
13. RESPECT - Aretha Franklin
14. I WAS MADE TO LOVE HER - Stevie Wonder
15. COME BACK WHEN YOU GROW UP - Bobby Vee & The Strangers
16. SWEET SOUL MUSIC - Arthur Conley
17. KIND OF A DRAG - Buckinghams
18. EXPRESSWAY TO YOUR HEART - Soul Survivors
19. SOUL MAN - Sam & Dave
20. NEVER MY LOVE - Association

21. APPLES, PEACHES, PUMPKIN PIE - Jay & The Techniques
22. COME ON DOWN TO MY BOAT - Every Mothers' Son
23. INCENSE AND PEPPERMINTS - Strawberry Alarm Clock
24. RUBY TUESDAY - Rolling Stones
25. IT MUST BE HIM - Vicki Carr
26. FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH - Buffalo Springfield
27. GIMME LITTLE SIGN - Brenton Wood
28. LOVE IS HERE AND NOW YOU'RE GONE - Supremes
29. THE HAPPENING - Supremes
30. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE - Beatles

31. RELEASE ME (AND LET ME LOVE AGAIN) - Engelbert Humperdinck
32. YOUR PRECIOUS LOVE - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
33. SOMEBODY TO LOVE - Jefferson Airplane
34. GET ON UP - Esquires
35. BROWN-EYED GIRL - Van Morrison
36. JIMMY MACK - Martha & The Vandellas
37. I GOT RHYTHM - Happenings
38. A WHITER SHADE OF PALE - Procol Harum
39. DON'T YOU CARE - Buckinghams
40. THEN YOU CAN TELL ME GOODBYE - Casinos

41. REFLECTIONS - Diana Ross & The Supremes
42. ON A CAROUSEL - Hollies
43. PLEASE LOVE ME FOREVER - Bobby Vinton
44. ALFIE - Dionne Warwick
45. SAN FRANCISCO (BE SURE TO WEAR SOME FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR) - Scott McKenzie
46. SILENCE IS GOLDEN - Tremeloes
47. MY CUP RUNNETH OVER - Ed Ames
48. UP, UP AND AWAY - Fifth Dimension
49. THE RAIN, THE PARK AND OTHER THINGS - Cowsills
50. THERE'S A KIND OF HUSH - Herman's Hermits


And here are the biggest songs in the U.K. for 1967. Engelbert had the top 3 positions!

1.  RELEASE ME - Engelbert Humperdinck
2.  THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING - Engelbert Humperdinck
3.  THE LAST WALTZ - Engelbert Humperdinck
4.  JUST LOVING YOU - Anita Harris
5.  SAN FRANCISCO (BE SURE TO WEAR SOME FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR) - Scott McKenzie
6.  PUPPET ON A STRING - Sandie Shaw
7.  I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN - Tom Jones
8.  THERE MUST BE A WAY - Frankie Vaughan
9.  A WHITER SHADE OF PALE - Procol Harum
10. I'M A BELIEVER - The Monkees

11. SOMETHIN' STUPID - Frank & Nancy Sinatra
12. DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE - The Mamas and the Papas
13. IT MUST BE HIM - Vicki Carr
14. EXCERPT FROM A TEENAGE OPERA - Keith West
15. MASSACHUSETTS - The Bee Gees
16. SILENCE IS GOLDEN - The Tremeloes
17. EDELWEISS - Vince Hill
18. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE - The Beatles
19. THIS IS MY SONG - Petula Clark
20. IF I WERE A RICH MAN - Topol

November 14th 1967 - The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as: "Day of the Colombian Woman".

November 15th 1967 - The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft, and is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

November 17th 1967 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."

November 19th 1967 - The Establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

November 21st 1967 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."

November 22nd 1967 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 242 in the aftermath of the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

November 27, 1967


Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price

November 29th 1967 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.

November 30th 1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.

December 3rd 1967


At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
The luxury train 20th Century Limited completes its last run from New York City to Chicago (the train was inaugurated on June 15, 1902).

December 4th 1967 - Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.

December 6th 1967: my husband was born in Bridgend hospital

December 6th 1967: my husband was born in Bridgend hospital
Happy Birthday to your husband.

The week of December 1, 1967, the cover of Time Magazine features miniskirt designer Rudi Gernreich. The headline: "The Miniskirt is Here to Stay (Till Spring, Anyway)"

December 11, 1967


6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed
Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit
SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established

December 13th 1967 - United Soccer Association and National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL.

December 15th 1967 - The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.

December 15th 1967- Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"

^ lol, I've never head of it. I didn't know the Beatles recorded a Christmas song ...  :-[

17th December 1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria and was presumed drowned.

December 15th 1967- Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"

^ lol, I've never head of it. I didn't know the Beatles recorded a Christmas song ...  :-[
The record was only released to members of the Beatles fanclub who were willing to order the record through the mail.

December 19th 1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.

December 20th 1967 - "The Graduate," starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premieres.

December 21st 1967 - Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days.

January 5th 1968 - Alexander Dubček comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.

January 9th 1968 - The only known snowfall occurs in Mexico City, additional snow falls on Jan. 10 and 11.

January 16th 1968 - The Youth International Party (Yippies) is founded.

January 20th 1968 - Game of the Century, influential in college sports broadcasting.

January 21st 1968 – Vietnam War: The Vietnam People's Army attacked Khe Sanh Combat Base, a U.S. Marines outpost in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, starting the Battle of Khe Sanh.

January 22nd 1968 - The TV sketch comedy Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC.

January 23rd 1968 – USS Pueblo was seized by North Korean forces, who claimed that it had violated their territorial waters while spying.

January 24th 1962: Brian Epstein signs a management contract with the Beatles


Shouldn't this thread be things that happened in 1968?  Or are you using in the sense of 40-50 years ago?

Shouldn't this thread be things that happened in 1968?  Or are you using in the sense of 40-50 years ago?
An error on my part.

An error on my part.


I was meaning it as a criticism, more a clarification

January 30th 1968 – Vietnam War: Forces of the Viet Cong and the Vietnam People's Army launched the Tết Offensive on Tết (Vietnamese New Year's Day) to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam.

January 31st 1968 -


Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon
Nauru declares independence from Australia.

February 1st 1968 - The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.

February 1st 1968 - Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers

February 5th 1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins.

February 11th 1968 - Israeli-Jordanian border clashes.

February 16th 1968 - In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.

February 17th 1968 - In Springfield, Massachusetts the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.

February 19th 1968 - First U.S. Teachers strike in Florida

February 23rd 1968 - Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points.

February 24th 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.

March 4th 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign.

March 5th 1968 - U.S. launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.

March 12th 1968 - Mauritius achieves independence.

March 16th 1968 – Vietnam War: American soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Sơn Mỹ village in the Sơn Tịnh district of South Vietnam.

March 18th 1968 - Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.

March 20th 1968 - Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from U.S. paper money

March 27th 1968 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Cosmonaut, first human in space dies in aircraft training accident.

March 31st 1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.

April 1st 1968 - KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast

April 3rd 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.

A sad day in history.

April 4th 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

April 3rd 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.

Little did he know that that would be his last full day on earth. :\'(



A sad day in history.

April 4th 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

So sad. :\'( :\'( That has got to be perhaps one of the most famous deaths for today.

Little did he know that that would be his last full day on earth. :\'(

So sad. :\'( :\'( That has got to be perhaps one of the most famous deaths for today.
I did not realise that The Rev. Jesse Jackson was with him at the time.

I did not realise that The Rev. Jesse Jackson was with him at the time.

I didn't even know that myself.

I didn't even know that myself.
Please read here.

10th April 1968 - Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine outside Wellington harbour.

April 12th 1968 - Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.

April 20th 1968 – British Member of Parliament Enoch Powell made his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech in opposition to immigration and anti-discrimination legislation, resulting in his removal from the Shadow Cabinet.

April 23rd 1968 - Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.

Was this event featured in movie Forrett Gump?