List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1966

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Frank Sinatra (pictured with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1960) had four number ones in 1966.

Adult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music (AC) market. In 1966, 18 songs topped the chart, then published under the title Easy Listening, based on playlists submitted by easy listening radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.[1]

In the first issue of Billboard of the year, Roger Miller moved up one place to number one with "England Swings",[2] however he held the top spot for only a single week before being replaced at number one by Al Martino's "Spanish Eyes", which spent four weeks atop the chart. Immediately after Martino's run at number one, Frank Sinatra, one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century,[3] gained his first Easy Listening chart-topper with "It Was a Very Good Year". Sinatra, who was experiencing a career resurgence at the age of 50,[4] achieved several chart distinctions in 1966. He had the most number ones, topping the chart with four singles, spent the most total weeks in the top spot with 13, and had the longest unbroken run at number one when "Strangers in the Night" spent seven consecutive weeks topping the listing. Although Sinatra reportedly did not care for "Strangers in the Night",[5] it also topped Billboard's all-genres chart, the Hot 100.[4]

Two other Easy Listening number ones also topped the Hot 100. In the early part of the year, serving soldier Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler reached the top of both listings with "The Ballad of the Green Berets". The patriotic song went on to be the biggest-selling single of the year in the U.S.[6] In December, British novelty act The New Vaudeville Band reached number one on both charts with the 1920s-styled "Winchester Cathedral", the only significant hit of the group's career.[7] "Winchester Cathedral" was the penultimate Easy Listening chart-topper of 1966, being replaced in the top spot in Billboard's final issue of the year by Sinatra's "That's Life".

Chart history

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Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler had one of the biggest hits of 1966 with "Ballad of the Green Berets".
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Ray Conniff and his singers topped the chart with "Somewhere, My Love", a vocal interpretation of "Lara's Theme" from the film Doctor Zhivago.[8]
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"I Couldn't Live Without Your Love" was a number one for British singer Petula Clark.
Key
Best performing easy listening song of 1966 Indicates best-performing easy listening song of 1966.[9] later years, another list[10]
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 1 "England Swings" Roger Miller [2]
January 8 "Spanish Eyes" Al Martino [11]
January 15 [12]
January 22 [13]
January 29 [14]
February 5 "It Was a Very Good Year" Frank Sinatra [15]
February 12 "Crying Time" Ray Charles [16]
February 19 [17]
February 26 [18]
March 5 "Ballad of the Green Berets" Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler [19]
March 12 [20]
March 19 [21]
March 26 [22]
April 2 [23]
April 9 "I Want to Go with You" Eddy Arnold [24]
April 16 [25]
April 23 [26]
April 30 "Together Again" Ray Charles [27]
May 7 [28]
May 14 [29]
May 21 "Band of Gold" Mel Carter [30]
May 28 [31]
June 4 "Strangers in the Night" Frank Sinatra [32]
June 11 [33]
June 18 [34]
June 25 [35]
July 2 [36]
July 9 [37]
July 16 [38]
July 23 "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" Jack Jones [39]
July 30 "Somewhere, My Love" Ray Conniff Singers [40]
August 6 [41]
August 13 [42]
August 20 [43]
August 27 "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love" Petula Clark [44]
September 3 "Born Free" dagger Roger Williams [45]
September 10 [46]
September 17 [47]
September 24 [48]
October 1 "In the Arms of Love" Andy Williams [49]
October 8 [50]
October 15 "Summer Wind" Frank Sinatra [51]
October 22 "Born Free" dagger Roger Williams [52]
October 29 [53]
November 5 "The Wheel of Hurt" Margaret Whiting [54]
November 12 [55]
November 19 [56]
November 26 [57]
December 3 "Winchester Cathedral" The New Vaudeville Band [58]
December 10 [59]
December 17 [60]
December 24 [61]
December 31 "That's Life" Frank Sinatra [62]

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