Summer '67 - The 'Summer of Love'
NEWS
300,000 'flower children' were in Haight-Ashbury
Race riots in Detroit cause major damage. 43 are killed; 1700 stores are destroyed.
'Hair' opens off-Broadway
POPULAR SONGS
All You Need is Love - The Beatles
Bend Me Shape Me - American Breed
To Love Somebody - The Bee Gees
Woman, Woman - Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
Fall '67 - Silly Sophomores!
NEWS
The US population is at 200 million. The 'experts' predict it will reach 300 million by 2000
The St Louis Cardinals win the World Series
50,000 anti-war demonstrators picket the Pentagon.
POPULAR SONGS
Bernadette - Four Tops
Come Back When you Grow up Girl - Bobby Vee
Sock it to me Baby - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
To Sir With Love - LuLu
Winter '67-'68 - Winter Blahs!
NEWS
South African surgeon, Christian Barnard, performed the world's first heart transplant.
The Green Bay Packers beat Oakland in Super Bowl II
The cost to mail a one-ounce first class letter goes up to 6 cents.
The first emergency 911 telephone system is installed in New York
POPULAR SONGS
Love is Blue - Paul Muriat
Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
Judy in Disguise - John Fred & his Playboy Band
Spring '68 - Bad Moon Risin'!
NEWS
President Johnson announces he will not accept nomination for another term as President.
Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis. James Earl Ray confesses to the killing.
North Korea captures USS Pueblo, claiming it in Korean territory.
The price of a Hershey bar doubles...to 10 cents
POPULAR SONGS
Baby Now that I've Found You - The Foundations
For Once in My Life - Stevie Wonder
Yummy Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro