Year:1966

Singles Released

 * God Only Knows:The Beach Boys The Beach Boys
 * Good Vibrations The Beach Boys
 * Sunday Morning The Velvet Underground & Nico
 * Paint It, Black The Rolling Stones
 * Sunny Afternoon The Kinks
 * Reach Out I'll Be There Four Tops
 * The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Ennio Morricone
 * Paperback Writer The Beatles
 * Eight Miles High The Byrds
 * All Tomorrow's Parties The Velvet Underground & Nico
 * The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More The Walker Brothers
 * Hold On! I'm A Comin' Sam & Dave
 * Friday on My Mind The Easybeats
 * Hey Joe Jimi Hendrix
 * Gimme Some Loving The Spencer Davis Group
 * You Can't Hurry Love The Supremes
 * For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound) Buffalo Springfield
 * Try a Little Tenderness Otis Redding
 * You Keep Me Hangin' On The Supremes
 * Mother's Little Helper The Rolling Stones
 * 19th Nervous Breakdown The Rolling Stones
 * No Milk Today Herman's Hermits
 * I Can't Control Myself The Troggs
 * Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? The Rolling Stones
 * I'm a Boy The Who
 * All I See Is You Dusty Springfield
 * Winchester Cathedral The New Vaudeville Band
 * Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James Manfred Mann
 * Stop Stop Stop The Hollies
 * If I Were a Carpenter Bobby Darin
 * Holy Cow Lee Dorsey
 * Better Use Your Head Little Anthony & The Imperials
 * I've Got You Under My Skin The Four Seasons (band)
 * Time Drags By Cliff Richard
 * High Time Paul Jones
 * A Fool Am I Cilla Black

Albums Released

 * Date Released: Artist - Album
 * May 16: The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
 * August 5: The Beatles - Revolver
 * Percy Faith - More Themes For Young Lovers
 * The Ray Conniff Singers - En Español!

Other Events

 * ===Classical music [ edit] ===


 * Jean Absil wrote the ballet Petites Polyphonies, opus 128
 * June 15 : first performance of Benjamin Britten'sSweet was the song the Virgin sung
 * September 22 : First performance of Johan KvandalsString Quartet No. 2