page_title: List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1966
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1966 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: Trade ad for Ray Conniff's single "Moonlight Brings Memories" / "Wonderful Season Of Summer".To better adapt it to his respective Wikipedia article, the ad was cropped and cleaned in a graphics editing program. The original can be viewed at the source below.
context_page_description: Adult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music genre. 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.
  In the first issue of Billboard of the year, Roger Miller moved up one place to number one with "England Swings", 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, 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, 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.
caption: 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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