1966 in Music - Other Significant Recordings

Other Significant Recordings

(Not all of these were necessarily released as singles.)

• "7 and 7 Is" – Love
• "19th Nervous Breakdown" – The Rolling Stones
• "634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)" – Wilson Pickett
• "The 7 O'clock News/Silent Night" – Simon & Garfunkel
• "A Hard Day's Night" – The Ramsey Lewis Trio
• "Hazy Shade of Winter" – Simon & Garfunkel
• "A Legal Matter" – The Who
• "A Little Bit of Soap" – The Exciters
• "A Quick One, While He's Away" – The Who
• "A Sign of the Times" – Petula Clark
• "A Well Respected Man" – The Kinks
• "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" – The Temptations
• "Alfie" – Cilla Black
• "All I See is You" – Dusty Springfield
• "All Tomorrows Parties" – The Velvet Underground and Nico
• "And Your Bird Can Sing" – The Beatles
• "Anyway That You Want Me" – The Troggs
• "April Come She Will" – Simon & Garfunkel
• "At the Party" – Hector Rivera
• "At the Scene" – The Dave Clark Five
• "B-A-B-Y" – Carla Thomas
• "Baby Don't You Do It" – The Poets
• "Baby Scratch My Back" – Slim Harpo
• "Bang! Bang!" – Joe Cuba Sextet
• "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" – Cher
• "Batman Theme" – The Marketts
• "Biff Bang Pow" – The Creation
• "Blues from an Airplane" – Jefferson Airplane
• "Blue Turns to Grey" – Cliff Richard and The Shadows
• "Boa Constrictor" – Johnny Cash
• "Boris the Spider" – The Who
• "Born Free" – Matt Monro
• "Born Free" – Roger Williams
• "Burned" – The Buffalo Springfield
• "But It's Alright" – J.J. Jackson
• "Call Me" – Chris Montez
• "Can't Help Thinking About Me" – David Bowie and The Lower Third
• "Caroline No" – Brian Wilson
• "Children of the Sun" – The Misunderstood
• "Circles" – Les Fleur de Lys
• "C'mon Let's Go" – The McCoys
• "Codine" – The Charlatans
• "(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need" – The Miracles
• "Come Up the Years" – Jefferson Airplane
• "Coming On Strong" – Brenda Lee
• "Coming Home Soldier" – Bobby Vinton
• "Cops of the World" – Phil Ochs
• "The Dangling Conversation" – Simon & Garfunkel
• "Diddy Wah Diddy" – Captain Beefheart
• "Dirty Water" – The Standells
• "Do Anything You Say" – David Bowie and The Buzz
• "Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It? – The Buffalo Springfield
• "Doctor Robert" – The Beatles
• "Don't Answer Me" – Cilla Black
• "Don't Ease Me In" – Grateful Dead
• "Don't Look Back" – The Remains
• "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)" – The Swingin' Medallions
• "Dum-De-Da" – Bobby Vinton
• "The Dreams I Dream" – The Shadows
• "East West" – Herman's Hermits
• "Eight Miles High" – The Byrds
• "Eve" – The Balloon Farm
• "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)" – Otis Redding
• "Femme Fatale" – The Velvet Underground and Nico
• "Flight 505" – The Rolling Stones
• "Flying on the Ground is Wrong" – The Buffalo Springfield
• "Free Advice" – The Great Society
• "Friday on my Mind" – The Easybeats
• "Frying Pan" – Captain Beefheart
• "Georgy Girl" – The Seekers
• "Get Me To The World On Time" – The Electric Prunes
• "Get Ready" – The Temptations
• "Go and Say Goodbye" – The Buffalo Springfield
• "Go Away Little Girl" – The Happenings
• "Good Day Sunshine" – The Beatles
• "Got to Get You Into My Life" – The Beatles
• "The Great Airplane Strike" – Paul Revere & the Raiders
• "The Hair of My Chinny Chin Chin" – Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
• "Happy Jack" – The Who
• "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" – The Rolling Stones
• "He" – The Righteous Brothers
• "Help I'm a Rock" – The Mothers of Invention
• "Here, There and Everywhere" – The Beatles
• "Hey Joe" – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• "Hey Joe" – The Leaves
• "Hey, Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You" – Jimmy Castor
• "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" – The Mothers of Invention
• "Girl Don't Tell Me" – The Beach Boys (B-side to Barbara Ann)
• "You're So Good to Me" – The Beach Boys (B-side to Sloop John B)
• "God Only Knows" – The Beach Boys (B-side to Wouldn't It Be Nice)
• "Let's Go Away For Awhile" – The Beach Boys (B-side to Good Vibrations)
• "What Goes On" – The Beatles (B-side to Nowhere Man)
• "Eleanor Rigby" – The Beatles (B-side to Yellow Submarine)
• "Rain" – The Beatles (B-side to Paperback Writer)
• "I Am a Rock" – Simon & Garfunkel
• "I Can Take You to the Sun" – The Misunderstood
• "I Dig Everything" – David Bowie and The Buzz
• "I Don't Need No Doctor" – Ray Charles
• "I Got The Feelin' (Oh No No)" – Neil Diamond
• "I Love Onions" – Susan Christie
• "I Met a Girl" – The Shadows
• "If Every Day Was Like Christmas" – Elvis Presley
• "I'll Be Your Mirror" – The Velvet Underground and Nico
• "I'm a Believer" – The Monkees
• "I'm a Boy" – The Who
• "(I'm a) Road Runner" – Junior Walker & the Allstars
• "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" – The Monkees
• "I'm Only Sleeping" – The Beatles
• "I'm Ready For Love" – Martha and the Vandellas
• "I'm Sick Y'all" – Otis Redding
• "I'm So Glad" – Cream
• "Inside Looking Out" – The Animals
• "Mame" – Bobby Darin
• "Mame" – Louis Armstrong
• "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)/Queen Jane Approximately – Bob Dylan
• "I Want You/Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues – Bob Dylan
• "Pledging My Time – Bob Dylan (B-side to Rainy Day Women #12 & 35)
• "I Can't Control Myself" – The Troggs
• "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – Otis Redding
• "I Can't Let Go" – The Hollies
• "I Feel Free" – Cream
• "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night" – The Electric Prunes
• "I Know There's An Answer" – The Beach Boys
• "I Just Wasn't Meant for These Times" – The Beach Boys
• "I Put A Spell On You" – The Animals
• "I Want To Be With You" – Dee Dee Warwick
• "I Want to Go with You" – Eddy Arnold
• "Just Like a Woman"/"Obviously 5 Believers" – Bob Dylan
• "In the Country" – Cliff Richard and The Shadows
• "It Takes Two" – Marvin Gaye with Kim Weston
• "It Tears Me Up" – Percy Sledge
• "It's a-Happening" – The Magic Mushrooms
• "It's No Secret" – Jefferson Airplane
• "It's Not Easy" – The Rolling Stones
• "Jug Band Music" – The Lovin' Spoonful
• "Just Like Me" – Paul Revere & the Raiders
• "The Kids Are Alright" – The Who
• "Kill For Peace" – The Fugs
• "Lady Jane" – The Rolling Stones
• "Leaves That Are Green" – Simon & Garfunkel
• "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" – Bob Dylan
• "Let's Go Get Stoned" – Ray Charles
• "Let's Start All Over Again" – Ronnie Dove
• "Lies" – The Knickerbockers
• "Like A Baby" – Len Barry
• "Little By Little" – Dusty Springfield
• "Little Latin Lupe Lu" – Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
• "Little Man" – Sonny & Cher
• "The London Boys" – David Bowie
• "Love Is A Hurting Thing" – Lou Rawls
• "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart" – The Supremes
• "Love Letters" – Elvis Presley
• "Love Makes The World Go Round" – Deon Jackson
• "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" – Phil Ochs
• "Love Me With All of Your Heart" – The Bachelors
• "Love's Just a Broken Heart" – Cilla Black
• "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" – Four Tops
• "Maudie" – The Animals
• "Maintaining My Cool" – The Sonics
• "Makin' Time" – The Creation
• "Mama Told Me Not To Come" – Eric Burdon
• "(The Marines Have Just Landed on the Shores of) Santo Domingo" – Phil Ochs
• "Mission:Impossible" – Jack Jones
• "Moonchild" – Captain Beefheart
• "The More I See You" – Chris Montez
• "Mother's Little Helper" – The Rolling Stones
• "Moulty" – The Barbarians
• "Mr. Dieingly Sad" – The Critters
• "Mr. Spaceman" – The Byrds
• "My Little Red Book" – Love
• "My Lover's Prayer" – Otis Redding
• "Nashville Cats" – The Lovin' Spoonful
• "Needle in a Haystack" – The Twilights
• "Night Time" – The Strangeloves
• "No Milk Today" – Herman's Hermits
• "Nothing's Too Good For My Baby" – Stevie Wonder
• "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" – The Buffalo Springfield
• "Oh How Happy" – The Shades of Blue
• "The One on the Right Is on the Left" – Johnny Cash
• "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show" – The Animals
• "One More Heartache" – Marvin Gaye
• "Open the Door To Your Heart" – Darrell Banks
• "Open Up Your Door" – Richard and the Young Lions
• "Opus 17" – The Four Seasons
• "Orange Skies" – Love
• "Outcast" – The Animals
• "Out of My Mind" – The Buffalo Springfield
• "Out of Time" – The Rolling Stones
• "Over, Under, Sideways, Down" – The Yardbirds
• "Painter Man" – The Creation
• "Pandora's Golden Heepie Jeebies" – The Association
• "Patsy Girl" – Ross MacManus
• "A Place in the Sun" -The Shadows
• "Psycho" – The Sonics
• "Pushin' Too Hard" – The Seeds
• "Respectable" – The Outsiders
• "Reverberation (Doubt)" – 13th Floor Elevators
• "Rhapsody in the Rain" – Lou Christie
• "Richard Cory" – Simon & Garfunkel
• "Ringing of Revolution" – Phil Ochs
• "Riot on Sunset Strip" – The Standells
• "Rubber Band" – David Bowie
• "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" – Bob Dylan
• "Scarborough Fair" – Simon & Garfunkel
• "Season of the Witch" – Donovan
• "Second Hand Rose" – Barbra Streisand
• "Shapes of Things" – The Yardbirds
• "She Comes in Colors" – Love
• "She Said She Said" – The Beatles
• "Sit Down I Think I Love You" – The Buffalo Springfield
• "Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)" – Janis Ian
• "Somebody to Love" – The Great Society
• "Solitary Man" – Neil Diamond
• "Somewhere" – Len Barry
• "Spanish Eyes" – Al Martino
• "Spoonful" – Cream
• "Standing in the Shadows of Love" – Four Tops
• "Stealin'" – Grateful Dead
• "Stone Free" – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• "Stop!" – The Moody Blues
• "Stop! Stop! Stop!" – The Hollies
• "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" – Bob Dylan
• "Stupid Girl" – The Rolling Stones
• "Substitute" – The Who
• "Suicida" – Os Mutantes
• "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" – The Walker Brothers
• "Sunday Morning" – The Velvet Underground and Nico
• "Sunny Afternoon" – The Kinks
• "Sweet Dreams" – Tommy McLain
• "Ballad of the Green Berets" – Sgt. Barry Sadler (the Top Song of 1966, according to Billboard)
• "Talk Talk" – The Music Machine
• "Tar and Cement" – Verdelle Smith
• "Taxman" – The Beatles
• "Tell It To The Rain" – The Four Seasons
• "That's Not Me" – The Beach Boys
• "There But For Fortune" – Phil Ochs
• "There Will Never Be Another You" – Chris Montez
• "Think" – The Rolling Stones
• "This Door Swings Both Ways" – Herman's Hermits
• "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You)" – The Isley Brothers
• "Time Drags By" – Cliff Richard and The Shadows
• "Tomorrow Never Knows" – The Beatles
• "Try a Little Tenderness" – Otis Redding
• "Try Too Hard" – The Dave Clark Five
• "Turn Down Day" – The Cyrkle
• "Twinkle Toes" – Roy Orbison
• "Under My Thumb" – The Rolling Stones
• "Up and Down" – The McCoys
• "Visions of Johanna" – Bob Dylan
• "Visions" – Cliff Richard
• "Wade in the Water" – The Ramsey Lewis Trio
• "Walking My Cat Named Dog" – Norma Tanega
• "War or Hands of Time" – The Masters Apprentices
• "Warm and Tender Love" – Percy Sledge
• "The Wheel of Hurt" – Margaret Whiting
• "Where Were You When I Needed You?" – The Grass Roots
• "Who Am I?" – Petula Clark
• "Who Do You Think You're Fooling?" – Captain Beefheart
• "Who's Flying Your Plane?" – The Rolling Stones
• "Whispers (Getting Louder)" – Jackie Wilson
• "Why Do I Cry?" – The Remains
• "With a Girl Like You" – The Troggs
• "Words of Love" – The Mamas & the Papas
• "You Baby" – The Turtles
• "You Better Run" – The Young Rascals
• "You Don't Have To Paint Me a Picture" – Gary Lewis and the Playboys
• "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" – Dusty Springfield
• "You Don't Know Like I Know" – Sam & Dave
• "You Got Soul" – The Twilights
• "You Got Your Head on Backwards" – The Sonics
• "You Still Believe In Me" – The Beach Boys
• "You Were On My Mind" – Crispian St. Peters
• "Younger Girl" – The Critters
• "(You're Gonna) Hurt Yourself" – Frankie Valli
• "You're Gonna Miss Me" – The 13th Floor Elevators
• "You're On My Mind" – The Animals