The article highlights four country songs released in 1967 that it presents as enduring favourites for Baby Boomers. It argues that, although psychedelic rock and pop dominated that year, country music also produced major hits with lasting appeal.

– “Walk Through This World With Me” by George Jones: a sentimental ballad written by Sandy Seamons and Kaye Savage; it became Jones’s first country No. 1 since 1962.
– “Lonely Again” by Eddy Arnold: written by Jean Chapel; it reached No. 1 on the US country chart and No. 11 on the Easy Listening chart.
– “Need You” by Sonny James: spent two weeks at No. 1 and 17 weeks on the country chart, beginning James’s run of 16 consecutive chart-toppers.
– “All The Time” by Jack Greene: a remake of Kitty Wells’s 1959 song; it topped the country chart and reached No. 3 on Billboard’s Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.