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Music History Events: Recordings

May 11, 1967 Cream records "Tales Of Brave Ulysses" and "Outside Woman Blues."

May 3, 1967 The Hollies record "Carrie Anne."

April 10, 1967 Paul McCartney attends a Beach Boys recording session in Hollywood.

April 4, 1967 The Beatles finish recording "Within You Without You," a George Harrison song where he plays sitar and is accompanied by various Indian musicians. He has the engineers add some laughter to the end of the track from a sound effects reel.

March 28, 1967 Van Morrison records "Brown Eyed Girl."

March 27, 1967 The Young Rascals record "Groovin'."

March 21, 1967 John Lennon takes his first major LSD trip and freaks out while recording backing vocals on the track "Getting Better." Producer George Martin, not realizing the effects of the drug, takes Lennon to the roof of Abbey Road Studios to get some fresh air. Paul McCartney and George Harrison, upon learning where John is, rush up to get him down. The group works on a piano track for "Lovely Rita" instead.

March 2, 1967 The Supremes record "Reflections" and "The Happening."

February 14, 1967 In New York City, Aretha Franklin r-e-c-o-r-d-s her famous cover of the Otis Redding song "Respect."

February 1, 1967 Frank Sinatra and daughter Nancy Sinatra record "Somethin' Stupid."

January 20, 1967 Arthur Conley records "Sweet Soul Music."

January 19, 1967 The Beatles start recording "A Day In The Life," leaving a placeholder in the middle section that is later filled with Paul McCartney's "Woke up, fell out of bed" part, taken from another song he was working on.

January 15, 1967 The Buckinghams record "Don't You Care."

January 11, 1967 Jimi Hendrix records "Purple Haze" at De Lane Lea Studios in London.

December 24, 1966 Tommy James & the Shondells record "I Think We're Alone Now."

December 13, 1966 Jimi Hendrix records "Foxy Lady."

December 6, 1966 No longer touring, The Beatles hunker down on their Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. With "Strawberry Fields Forever" in the can, they start work on "When I'm 64," a song they started playing live in rough form years earlier.

November 15, 1966 Jefferson Airplane records "Somebody To Love."

October 23, 1966 The Jimi Hendrix Experience records "Hey Joe."

August 15, 1966 Bobby Darin records "If I Were A Carpenter."

August 1, 1966 The Chambers Brothers record "Time Has Come Today" at Columbia Records' Los Angeles studios. Overdubbed with harpsichord, the single is released with a 2:37 running time and flops. A year later, an 11-minute version appears on their album The Time Has Come which becomes an FM radio favorite. In 1968, the song is once again released as a single, this time at 4:45. This version climbs to #11 in the US.

July 25, 1966 "Last Train To Clarksville," the debut single by The Monkees, is recorded at RCA studios in Los Angeles. Like all of their early songs, the group doesn't play on the record. The only Monkee on the track is Micky Dolenz, who does the vocal.

July 19, 1966 Johnny Rivers records "Poor Side Of Town."

July 19, 1966 The theme song to The Monkees TV series is recorded at RCA studios in Hollywood. The only Monkee to participate is Micky Dolenz, who does the vocal - the rest of the musicians are session performers.

July 18, 1966 The Beach Boys release "Wouldn't It Be Nice" with "God Only Knows" on the flip side.

June 24, 1966 The Supremes record "Love Is Like an Itching In My Heart."

June 21, 1966 The Beatles record "She Said She Said," a song inspired by a party where Peter Fonda, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrisonn were taking acid. Paul McCartney, who did not partake at the party, finds himself frozen out of the recording session and leaves, so Harrison plays bass on the track.

June 12, 1966 Elvis Presley records "Indescribably Blue," "I'll Remember You," and "If Every Day Was Like Christmas."

May 26, 1966 The Beatles record their whimsical hit "Yellow Submarine," primarily written by Paul McCartney.

May 26, 1966 Elvis Presley records "Where No One Stands Alone," "Down In The Alley," "Tomorrow Is A Long Time," and "Love Letters."