List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1967

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Ed Ames had three number ones in 1967.

In 1967, Billboard magazine published a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the easy listening market. The chart, which in 1967 was entitled Easy Listening, has undergone various name changes and since 1996 has been published under the title Adult Contemporary.[1] In 1967, 18 songs topped the chart based on playlists submitted by easy listening radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.[1]

On the first chart of 1967, Frank Sinatra was at number one with "That's Life", which had been in the top spot since the previous week. Sinatra, who was experiencing a career resurgence in his 50s,[2] had the highest total number of weeks at number one by an artist in 1967, spending seven weeks in the top spot with the solo singles "That's Life" and "The World We Knew (Over and Over)" and a further nine weeks at number one with "Somethin' Stupid", a duet with his daughter Nancy. The nine weeks which "Somethin' Stupid" spent at the top was the longest unbroken run of the year at number one. The song was also a crossover success, topping Billboard's pop music chart, the Hot 100, for four weeks. In addition to Frank Sinatra, Ed Ames also had three Easy Listening number ones in 1967, reaching the top spot with "My Cup Runneth Over", "Time, Time" and "When the Snow Is on the Roses". Nancy Sinatra, Al Martino and Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass were the only other acts with multiple chart-toppers during the year.

In contrast to the song by the Sinatras which was both an easy listening and pop number one, two singles in 1967 reached number one on the Easy Listening chart but failed to enter the Hot 100 at all. Both "It's Such a Pretty World Today" by Andy Russell and "Cold" by John Gary were Easy Listening chart-toppers but did not achieve sufficient crossover success to even reach number 100 on the Hot 100.[3][4] It would be more than 30 years before another song would top the Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary listing but fail to register on the Hot 100 despite being eligible to do so.[3] Russell's chart-topper came just two months after a recording of the same song by Wynn Stewart had reached number one on the Hot Country Singles chart.[5] "Cold" was the final number one of the year and would prove to be Gary's only Easy Listening chart-topper and his final entry on either that listing or the Hot 100.[6][7]

Chart history[edit]

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Father-daughter duo Frank and Nancy Sinatra spent nine consecutive weeks at number one with "Somethin' Stupid".
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"It's Such a Pretty World Today" was a chart-topper for Andy Russell. Although it was an Easy Listening number one, it did not enter the Hot 100 at all.
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John Gary ended the year at number one with the song "Cold". It was the second song of 1967 to top the Easy Listening chart but fail to enter the Hot 100.
Key
† Indicates number one on Billboard's year-end easy listening chart for 1967[8]
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 7 "That's Life" Frank Sinatra [9]
January 14 [10]
January 21 "Sugar Town" Nancy Sinatra [11]
January 28 [12]
February 4 "My Cup Runneth Over" Ed Ames [13]
February 11 [14]
February 18 [15]
February 25 [16]
March 4 "Lady" Jack Jones [17]
March 11 [18]
March 18 [19]
March 25 [20]
April 1 "Somethin' Stupid" † Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra [21]
April 8 [22]
April 15 [23]
April 22 [24]
April 29 [25]
May 6 [26]
May 13 [27]
May 20 [28]
May 27 [29]
June 3 "Casino Royale" Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass [30]
June 10 [31]
June 17 "Time, Time" Ed Ames [32]
June 24 "Stop! And Think It Over" Perry Como [33]
July 1 "Mary in the Morning" Al Martino [34]
July 8 [35]
July 15 "Don't Sleep in the Subway" Petula Clark [36]
July 22 [37]
July 29 [38]
August 5 "It's Such a Pretty World Today" Andy Russell [39]
August 12 "In the Chapel in the Moonlight" Dean Martin [40]
August 19 [41]
August 26 [42]
September 2 "The World We Knew (Over and Over)" Frank Sinatra [43]
September 9 [44]
September 16 [45]
September 23 [46]
September 30 [47]
October 7 "A Banda (Ah Bahn-da)" Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass [48]
October 14 [49]
October 21 "It Must Be Him" Vikki Carr [50]
October 28 [51]
November 4 [52]
November 11 "More Than the Eye Can See" Al Martino [53]
November 18 [54]
November 25 "When the Snow Is on the Roses" Ed Ames [55]
December 2 [56]
December 9 [57]
December 16 [58]
December 23 "Cold" John Gary [59]
December 30 [60]

References[edit]

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  5. ^ Whitburn 1996, p. 310.
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  39. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for August 5, 1967". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 23, 2018. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
  40. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for August 12, 1967". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 23, 2018. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
  41. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for August 19, 1967". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 23, 2018. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
  42. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for August 26, 1967". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 23, 2018. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
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  51. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for October 28, 1967". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 23, 2018. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
  52. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for November 4, 1967". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 23, 2018. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
  53. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for November 11, 1967". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 23, 2018. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
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