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1966

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Acclaimed Music Top Albums, Top Songs

Playlist Research Top Pop Hits

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Wikipedia 1966 in Music

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fifty albums

The Animals - Animalisms

The Association - And Then... Along Comes the Association

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

The Beatles - Revolver

The Blues Project - Projections

Buffalo Springfield

The Butterfield Blues Band - East-West

The Byrds - Fifth Dimension

Chad and Jeremy - Distant Shores

Judy Collins - In My Life

The Spencer Davis Group - The Second Album

Donovan - Sunshine Superman

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

John Fahey - Vol. 4: The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party and Other Excursions

The Godz - Contact High with the Godz

The Hollies - For Certain Because

John Lee Hooker - The Real Folk Blues

The Kinks - Face to Face

Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band - See Reverse Side for Title

Gordon Lightfoot - Lightfoot!

Love - Da Capo

The Lovin' Spoonful - Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful

The Mamas and the Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears

The Mamas and the Papas

John Mayall with Eric Clapton - Blues Breakers

The Monkees

The Monks - Black Monk Time

The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out

Johnny Paycheck - The Lovin' Machine

Wilson Pickett - The Exciting Wilson Pickett

Lou Rawls - Soulin'

Otis Redding - Complete and Unabridged: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul

Otis Redding - The Soul Album

Paul Revere and the Raiders - Midnight Ride

The Rolling Stones - Aftermath [U. K. version]

Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels - Take a Ride

Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence

Simon and Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman

Billy Stewart - Unbelievable

The Supremes - I Hear a Symphony

Howard Tate - Get It While You Can

The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

Ike and Tina Turner - River Deep - Mountain High

Porter Wagoner and the Blackwood Brothers Quartet - The Grand Old Gospel

Peter Walker - Rainy Day Raga

Doc Watson - Southbound

Sonny Boy Williamson[ II] [Rice Miller] - The Real Folk Blues

The Yardbirds [Roger the Engineer]

The Young Rascals


fifty-one singles and deep cuts

The Beach Boys - 'Good Vibrations', Smiley Smile [1967]

The Beatles - 'Paperback Writer'

The Beatles - 'Rain'

The Bee Gees - 'Spicks and Specks', Spicks and Specks

Los Bravos - 'Black Is Black', Black Is Black

James Brown and the Famous Flames - 'It's a Man's Man's Man's World'

The Buckinghams - 'Kind of a Drag', Kind of a Drag [1967]

Ray Charles - 'Let's Go Get Stoned', Crying Time

The Count Five - 'Psychotic Reaction', Psychotic Reaction

The Creation - 'Making Time', We Are Paintermen

The Spencer Davis Group - 'Gimme Some Lovin''

Neil Diamond - 'Solitary Man', The Feel of Neil Diamond

Neil Diamond - 'Cherry, Cherry', The Feel of Neil Diamond

Donovan - 'Mellow Yellow', Mellow Yellow [1967]

The Easybeats - 'Friday on My Mind', Good Friday [Friday on My Mind] [1967]

Lorraine Ellison - 'Stay with Me', Heart & Soul

Eddie Floyd - 'Knock on Wood', Knock on Wood [1967]

The 4 Seasons - 'Working My Way Back to You', Working My Way Back to You

Lowell Fulson - 'Tramp', Tramp [1967]

Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston - 'It Takes Two', [Marvin Gaye/ Kim Weston] Take Two

Tim Hardin - 'Reason to Believe', Tim Hardin 1

Bobby Hebb - 'Sunny', Sunny

The Hollies - 'I Can't Let Go'

The Hollies - 'Bus Stop'

Janis Ian - 'Society's Child', Janis Ian [1967]

J. J. Jackson - 'But It's Alright', J. J. Jackson Singing But It's Alright and I Dig Girls along with the Cooking Sound of the Greatest Little Soul Band in the Land [1967]

Tom Jones - 'Green, Green Grass of Home', Green, Green Grass of Home [1967]

The Kinks - 'Dedicated Follower of Fashion'

Love - 'My Little Red Book', Love

The Outsiders - 'Time Won't Let Me', Time Won't Let Me

Wilson Pickett - 'Mustang Sally', The Wicked Pickett [1967]

? (Question Mark) and the Mysterians - '96 Tears', 96 Tears

Johnny Rivers - 'Secret Agent Man'

Tommy Roe - 'Sweet Pea', Sweet Pea

The Rolling Stones - '19th Nervous Breakdown', Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) [U. K. version]; Hot Rocks [1971]

The Rolling Stones - 'Paint It, Black' ['Paint It Black'], Aftermath [U. S. version]; Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) [U. K. version, 1966]; Hot Rocks [1971]

The Rolling Stones - 'Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?', Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) [U. K. version]; Flowers [U. S. album, 1967]; More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) [1972]

Jimmy Ruffin - 'What Becomes of the Brokenhearted', Jimmy Ruffin Sings Top Ten [1967]

Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels - 'Devil with a Blue Dress On/ Good Golly Miss Molly', Breakout...!!!

Sam and Dave - 'Hold On, I'm Comin'', Hold On, I'm Comin'

Nancy Sinatra - 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin'', Boots

The Small Faces - 'Sha-La-La-La-Lee', The Small Faces

The Small Faces - 'All or Nothing', From the Beginning [1967]

The Supremes - 'Love Is Like an Itching in Your Heart', The Supremes a' Go-Go

The Supremes - 'You Can't Hurry Love', The Supremes a' Go-Go

The Temptations - 'Ain't Too Proud to Beg', Gettin' Ready

The Troggs - 'Wild Thing', From Nowhere

The Walker Brothers - 'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore', The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore

Dionne Warwick - 'Alfie', Here Where There Is Love

The Yardbirds - 'Shapes of Things'

The Yardbirds - 'Happening Ten Years Time Ago'


one archival and compilation album

Muddy Waters - Down on Stovall's Plantation: His First Recordings