July 10—The Bee Gees’ 1st album released.
July 17—Jazz great John Coltrane dies at 40.
July 18—Jimi Hendrix is thrown off the Monkees' tour, for
which he and the Experience had been the opening act (parents complained about
the band's lewdness).
July 24—The Yardbirds' Little Games released.
July 31—The Rascals' Groovin' album released.
Related: The "Groovin'" single hits #1.
Late July—Canned Heat's self-titled debut album released;
Incredible String Band's The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the
Onion released; The Grass Roots' Let's Live for
Today LP released; The Beau Brummels' Triangle album released. Wes Montgomery's A Day in the Life released.
Aug. 5—Pink Floyd's debut album, The Piper at
the Gates of Dawn, released.
Late August—Big Brother and the Holding Company's self-titled
debut released; Tim Buckley's Goodbye and Hello released;
Vanilla Fudge's self-titled debut album released; Albert King's Born Under
a Bad Sign released; James Brown's Cold Sweat album
released.
Sept. 1—The Doors appear on The Ed Sullivan
Show and Jim Morrison says "higher" during their performance of "Light My Fire," against Sullivan's demand not to; The Who smash their
instruments on the Smothers Brothers' TV show
Sept. 15—The Kinks' Something Else By the
Kinks released.
Sept. 18—The Beach Boys' Smiley Smile album
released.
Sept. 25—The Doors' Strange Days released.
Late Sept.—Van Morrison's Blowin' Your Mind released; Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant LP released; Chuck
Berry's Live at Fillmore Auditorium released; Procol Harum's
self-titled debut album released; Captain Beefheart's Safe as
Milk released; Eric Burdon and the Animals' Winds of
Change album released.
Oct. 3—Woody Guthrie dies at 55.
Oct. 18—Rolling Stone magazine premieres, with John
Lennon on the cover.
Oct. 27—Ten Years After’s self-titled debut album
released.
Oct. 30—Buffalo Springfield's Buffalo Springfield
Again released.
Oct. 31—Phil Ochs’ Pleasures of the
Harbor released.
Late Oct.—Sly and the Family Stone's A Whole New
Thing released; Sam and Dave's Soul Men released;
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's Gorilla album released; Judy
Collins' Wildflowers released.
Nov. 10—Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed released; Cream's Disraeli Gears released.
Nov. 27—The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour released.
Nov. 30—Jefferson Airplane's After Bathing at
Baxter's released.
Late Nov.—13th Floor Elevators' Easter
Everywhere released; Love's Forever. Changes album
released; Country Joe and the Fish's I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin'-to-Die released; The Chambers Brothers' Time Has Come Today released;
The Amboy Dukes' self-titled debut released; The
Hollies' Butterfly released.
Dec. 1—The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis: Bold as
Love released.
Dec. 8—The Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties
Request released.
Dec. 9—Jim Morrison is arrested onstage in New Haven for
inciting a riot.
Dec. 10—Otis Redding dies at 26 in a plane crash, along
with members of the Bar-Kays.
Dec. 15—The Who's The Who Sell Out released.
Dec. 18—The Beach Boys' Wild Honey album
released.
Dec. 26—The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour film
first broadcast.
Dec. 27—Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding album
released; Leonard Cohen's Songs of Leonard Cohen released.
Late Dec.—Donovan's A Gift From a Flower to a
Garden album released; Dusty Springfield's The Look of
Love album released; Traffic's Mr. Fantasy LP released; Nilsson's Pandemonium
Shadow Show released; Paul Butterfield Blues Band's The
Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw released; Van Dyke Parks' Song
Cycle album released.
The Blues Project—Live at Town Hall
The Box Tops—The Letter/Neon Rainbow
Chocolate Watchband—No Way Out
Neil Diamond—Just for You
Al Green—Back Up Train (debut)
Harpers Bizarre—Feelin' Groovy
Richie Havens—Mixed Bag
Janis Ian—Janis Ian
Tommy James and the Shondells—I Think We're Alone Now
The Left Banke—Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina
John Mayall—The Blues Alone
The Nice—The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack
Paul Revere and the Raiders—Revolution!
Sam and Dave—Double Dynamite
The Sonics—Introducing the Sonics
Strawberry Alarm Clock—Incense and Peppermints
The Ventures—Super Psychedelics