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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 4, 2016 23:36:31 GMT 1
25 December 1965:
1 ( 1 ) Day Tripper - Beatles < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass 3 ( 2 ) The Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel (#2[2]) 4 ( 6 ) We Can Work It Out - Beatles 5 ( 5 ) Keep On Running - Spencer Davis Group (#4) 6 ( 7 ) Merry Gentle Pops - Barron Knights 7 ( 9 ) Girls! Girls! Girls! - Fourmost 8 ( 3 ) I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown < 3rd week at #1 > 9 ( 16 ) She's Just My Style - Gary Lewis & The Playboys 10 ( -- ) A Must To Avoid - Herman's Hermits
11 ( 11 ) Till The End Of The Day - The Kinks 12 ( 23 ) Spanish Eyes - Al Martino 13 ( 8 ) How Can You Tell - Sandie Shaw (#4) 14 ( 10 ) To Whom It Concerns - Chris Andrews (#9) 15 ( 17 ) Flowers On The Wall - Statler Brothers 16 ( -- ) Bye Bye Blues - Bert Kaempfert 17 ( 13 ) England Swings - Roger Miller (#13) 18 ( 20 ) Five O'Clock World - Vogues 19 ( -- ) You Make It Move - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich 20 ( -- ) No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) - T-Bones
21 ( 14 ) Let Me Be - Turtles (#10) 22 ( 12 ) Let's Hang On - Four Seasons (#1[4]) 23 ( 26 ) The Little Girl I Once Knew - Beach Boys 24 ( 33 ) Apple Of My Eye - Roy Head & The Traits 25 ( 18 ) War Lord - Shadows (#15) 26 ( 22 ) My Ship Is Coming In - Walker Brothers (#22) 27 ( 15 ) My Generation - Who (#2[2]) 28 ( 24 ) Mystic Eyes - Them (#24) 29 ( 25 ) Puppet On A String - Elvis Presley (#25) 30 ( -- ) Let's Get Together - We Five
31 ( 31 ) You Didn't Have To Be So Nice - Lovin' Spoonful 32 ( 37 ) Take Me For What I'm Worth - The Searchers 33 ( 27 ) Sunday And Me - Jay & The Americans (#27) 34 ( 39 ) The Duck - Jackie Lee 35 ( 19 ) Bloodshot Eyes - Millie Small (#5) 36 ( 40 ) Everyday - Moody Blues (#22) 37 ( 21 ) May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose - Little Jimmy Dickens (#5) 38 ( -- ) Just Like Me - Paul Revere & The Raiders 39 ( 32 ) One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) - Barry Young (#32) 40 ( 29 ) Don't Think Twice - Wonder Who (Four Seasons) (#20)
-- ( 28 ) I'm A Man - Yardbirds (#16) -- ( 30 ) Ring Dang Doo - Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs (#10) -- ( 34 ) Don't Bring Me Your Heartaches - Paul & Barry Ryan (#9) -- ( 35 ) Turn! Turn! Turn! - Byrds (#3) -- ( 36 ) Something About You - Four Tops (#17) -- ( 38 ) Don't Fight It - Wilson Pickett (#30)
-- ( -- ) Farewell Angelina - Joan Baez -- ( -- ) Satin Pillows - Bobby Vinton
The final chart of the year 1965, and the Christmas chart. The chart of the year will be compiled shortly and posted into this topic. I will resume 1966 with a playlist on 5th September and thus around the middle of September. Of course, football-wise I have already visited the summer of 1966 very recently.
I am expecting 1966 will be a very strong year for music. 1965 certainly was.
In the current chart, we now have Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich make their debut. The story goes that Dave Dee was working as a police officer in 1960 and was on the scene when Eddie Cochran died in his car accident and actually temporarily had posession of his guitar.
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Post by rubcale on Aug 6, 2016 11:27:20 GMT 1
Surprised to see you chart Supremes' Nothing But Heartaches so high. Missed the Nationals completely here and broke their run of #1s in US.
To me it's Back In My Arms Again Part 2.
Symphony deserved to do much better.
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 6, 2016 12:13:52 GMT 1
In the current chart, we now have Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich make their debut. The story goes that Dave Dee was working as a police officer in 1960 and was on the scene when Eddie Cochran died in his car accident and actually temporarily had posession of his guitar. That story is true, and he played it during his spare time at the police station in Chippenham after the guitar was impounded. It was then auctioned by the police force and bought by the Melody Maker music magazine who gave it away in a postal contest. The winner of that guitar in that contest was a young Mark Feld, an Eastern London boy and the son of a lorry driver. The 13-year-old Feld had earlier on that tour met Cochran outside the Hackney Empire, where Cochran had just played a concert. Cochran allowed the boy to carry his guitar out to his limousine, so he was reunited with it three years later. Of course, this Mark Feld, later became rather successful as Glam Rock superstar Marc Bolan, who eventually died in a car crash in 1977. In the end Marc Bolan's estate sold that guitar to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, where it is now on display behind glass... PS. I've enjoyed keeping an eye on your charts, but I still think my decision of having key relevant charting album tracks is a better concept as otherwise I would have certainly had to have dropped back to a top 30 countdown by 1972.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 8, 2016 18:51:12 GMT 1
When you say Symphony deserved better I assume you mean in the UK chart where it reached about #39 or so. In my chart it was at least a top 10 hit. The general quality of the chart in 1965 is high, so any top 10 hit has done reasonably well.
As a result I am also going to count down the top 150 for this year rather than just the top 100 as I have for previous years.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 8, 2016 18:52:06 GMT 1
150 Laugh At Me - Sonny 149 I Must Be Seeing Things - Gene Pitney 148 Sitting In The Park - Billy Stewart 147 Tired Of Waiting For You - Kinks 146 Love Her - Walker Brothers 145 Promised Land - Chuck Berry 144 You're My Girl - Rockin' Berries 143 Everybody's Gonna Be Happy - Kinks 142 My Girl Has Gone - Miracles 141 Nothing But Heartache - Supremes 140 Poor Man's Son - Rockin' Berries 139 Taste Of Honey - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass 138 Give Us Your Blessings - Shangri-Las 137 The Birds And The Bees - Jewel Akens 136 Do The Clam - Elvis Presley
At this pont, and with the speed I have generated this, I cannot say the list of songs above is that memorable to me, aside from of course the Kinks "Tired Of Waiting For You" which I'm surprised to see lower than "Everybody's Gonna Be Happy".
I was certain this band would have been doing better, and probably over the next few years of charts they will get to #1, but whilst I thought they'd be next behind the Beatles and ahead of the Rolling Stones, so far the Rolling Stones have had two #1s and they haven't had any.
The Rockin' Berries also appear twice in the above list.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 9, 2016 22:51:18 GMT 1
Next 15:
135 Trains And Boats And Planes - Burt Bacherach 134 Shame And Scandal In The Family - Lance Percival 133 Do You Believe In Magic - Lovin' Spoonful 132 Something Better Beginning - Honeycombs 131 Houston - Dean Martin 130 The Dawn Of Correction - Spokesmen 129 Ring Dang Doo - Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs 128 Stranger In Town - Del Shannon 127 I'll Never Find Another You - Seekers 126 Woman's Got Soul - Impressions 125 Whatcha Gonna Do About It - Small Faces 124 A Lover's Concerto - Toys 123 Baby The Rain Must Fall - Glenn Yarbrough 122 I've Got A Tiger By The Tail - Buck Owens 121 Baby Don't Go - Sonny & Cher
In the chart these are "edge of the top 10" hits. The most memorable of those is the Seekers, who had a UK #1 with that song, and then Lance Percival (maybe because of Madness's cover, although it was already 22 years old in 1965), and the Toys (for which the tune is even older, written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Still there is a song in the top 100 singles with even older lyrics). And we remember the Dawn of Correction which was an "answer" song to Eve Of Destruction.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 12, 2016 16:35:55 GMT 1
120 Don't Bring Me Your Heartaches - Paul & Barry Ryan 119 Once Upon A Time - Tom Jones **118 Let Me Be - Turtles 117 (Say) You're My Girl - Roy Orbison 116 You Really Know How To Hurt A Guy - Jan & Dean *115 Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw 114 Maggie's Farm - Bob Dylan 113 I Hear A Symphony - Supremes 112 Try To Understand - Lulu 111 I Belong - Kathy Kirby 110 A World Of Our Own - Seekers 109 Et Meme - Francoise Hardy 108 Bye Bye Baby (Baby Goodbye) - Four Seasons 107 I Know A Place - Petula Clark 106 This Little Bird - Marianne Faithfull
* Spent a week at #2 in 1964. Would be #34 in 1964 and #29 in 1965 with combined total. Not very high for a #2.
A bit more familiarity in this list. Supremes perhaps should be a bit higher? Still these are all top 10 hits. Kathy Kirby's song was (I think) our Eurovision entry and the first of those to reach my chart since the Allisons in 1961.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 14, 2016 13:59:59 GMT 1
104 Girl Come Running - Four Seasons 103 What The World Needs Now Is Love - Jackie DeShannon 102 Funny How Love Can Be - Ivy League 101 You Can Have Him - Dionne Warwick 100 It's The Same Old Song - Four Tops **99 Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass 98 Stop! In The Name Of Love - Supremes 97 The Carnival Is Over - Seekers 96 1-2-3 - Len Barry 95 Leaving Here - Birds 94 Concrete And Clay - Unit Four Plus Two 93 Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan 92 Pop Go The Workers - Barron Knights 91 Where Are You Now (My Love) - Jackie Trent 90 Engine Engine #9 - Roger Miller
** #2 and climbing on the final week of 1965.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 15, 2016 15:00:12 GMT 1
As we enter the top 100, and a few of those just outside, it suddenly turns into one classic after another.
Ok, maybe the odd dodgy song in the top 100 like the Barron Knights (quite clever fun though) but in general, it just shows what a great year it was for music.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 15, 2016 15:46:10 GMT 1
89 It Ain't Me Babe - Johnny Cash 88 You Were On My Mind - We Five **87 Keep On Running - Spencer Davis Group 86 Shake - Sam Cooke *85 I Feel Fine - Beatles 84 Catch Us If You Can - Dave Clark Five 83 Don't Mess Up A Good Thing - Fontella Bass & Bobby McClure 82 Home Of The Brave - Jody Miller 81 Three O'Clock In The Morning - Bert Kaempfert 80 Agent Double-O-Soul - Edwin Starr 79 Liar Liar - Castaways 78 A Windmill In Old Amsterdam - Ronnie Hilton 77 Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs 76 People Get Ready - Impressions
"I Feel Fine" was #1 at the end of 1964. Its combined total lifts it to 8th in 1965 but only 12th in 1964. It doesn't pass the 400 point mark either. So far only "From Me To You" has managed that.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 17, 2016 14:29:43 GMT 1
*75 Love Potion No.9 - Searchers 74 I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher *73 Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow The Sun) - Del Shannon **72 Bloodshot Eyes - Millie Small 71 The Boy From New York City - Ad Libs 70 Here It Comes Again - Fortunes 69 Just A Little Bit Better - Herman's Hermits 68 In The Middle Of Nowhere - Dusty Springfield 67 The In Crowd - Dobie Gray 66 Bumble Bee - Searchers 65 Hurt So Bad - Little Anthony & The Imperials 64 I Want Candy - Strangeloves **63 May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose - Little Jimmy Dickens **62 How Can You Tell - Sandie Shaw 61 I Put A Spell On You - Nina Simone
Although Millie Small and Little Jimmy Dickens are both in the final chart of 1965, both are likely to drop out the following week. Sandie Shaw is likely to manage at least one more week, currently at #13.
Two extra weeks for "Love Potion #9" in 1964 pushes that up to #42 (in 1965) whilst the one week for Del Shannon's "Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow The Sun)" pushes it up to #59.
It's good to see Del Shannon doing well this year, and notably Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard, although they both had UK #1 hits in 1965, both fail to reach my top 100 of the year for the first time. Roy Orbison, who had the #1 and #2 in 1964, also misses out although he was the closest of the three, at #117 in the chart of the year. He's also been ever-present up to this point. Del Shannon's first hit was in 1961 so he definitely is not ever-present (as the chart starts in 1960). The Everly Brothers will appear in this year's top 100 but were missing in both 1963 and 1964 (after having the #1 of the year of 1962. In both those years they had hits but not in the top 100 of the year). Elvis's biggest hit on this chart in 1965 was "Do The Clam" (#136 of the year) and Cliff Richard is at #197 with "I Easily Could Fall"
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 18, 2016 21:45:55 GMT 1
60 Heart Full Of Soul - Yardbirds 59 In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett **58 Day Tripper - Beatles 57 Run Baby Run (Back Into My Arms) - Newbeats *56 Too Many Fish In The Sea - Marvelettes 55 Il Silenzio - Nini Rosso 54 The Price Of Love - Everly Brothers 53 The Race Is On - Jack Jones 52 Ju Ju Hand - Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs 51 Looking Through The Eyes Of Love - Gene Pitney
The Marvellettes move to #39 with 2 weeks from 1964. Day Tripper was the final #1 of 1965.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 19, 2016 13:10:40 GMT 1
50 Do The Freddie - Freddie And The Dreamers 49 Zorba's Dance - Marcello Minerbi **48 The Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel 47 Come Tomorrow - Manfred Mann 46 If You Gotta Go Go Now - Manfred Mann 45 Hawaii Tattoo - Waikikis 44 It's Good News Week - Hedgehoppers Anonymous 43 Get Off Of My Cloud - Rolling Stones 42 Turn! Turn! Turn! - Byrds 41 Come On Over To My Place - Drifters
The Sound Of Silence is #3 in the final chart of 1965 having peaked at #2.
I referred to artists appearing in the top 100 of every year so far. The Drifters were absent from the chart for the entirety of 1962 until the final week when they entered at #9 with "Up On The Roof". In 1961 they didn't make the top 100.
For the second year in a row, Manfred Mann have singles in consecutive positions.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 21, 2016 20:17:13 GMT 1
40 Tossing And Turning - Ivy League 39 A Walk In The Black Forest - Horst Jankowski 38 You've Got Your Troubles - Fortunes 37 I Can't Help Myself - Four Tops *36 Yeh Yeh - Georgie Fame 35 The Clapping Song - Shirley Ellis 34 I'm Alive - Hollies 33 Eight Days A Week - Beatles
With two weeks from 1964 added, it moves up to #23 of the year. This is among mostly #2 hits and Yeh Yeh actually peaked at #3.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 22, 2016 19:50:06 GMT 1
32 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Animals 31 What's New Pussycat - Tom Jones 30 Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter - Herman's Hermits 29 Look Through Any Window - Hollies 28 Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan 27 At The Club - Drifters 26 California Girls - Beach Boys 25 My Girl - Temptations
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 24, 2016 21:10:25 GMT 1
24 Baby Please Don't Go - Them 23 Rescue Me - Fontella Bass 22 We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - Animals **21 I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown **20 My Generation - Who *19 Ferry Across The Mersey - Gerry & The Pacemakers
All number ones and number twos. The Animals' hit is the lowest placed #1 on the chart of the year (other than "Day Tripper" which is still at #1 at the end of the year).
** The James Brown hit was also a #1 but is still at #8 on the final chart and the Who are lower but still in the top 20.
* "Ferry Across The Mersey" was the last #1 of 1964 and the first of 1965 and 2 weeks at #1. Combining the scores it would be #5 of the year in 1965 and #6 of the year in 1964.
It joins a list of songs that were NM #1 and UK #1 in different versions.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 25, 2016 23:30:29 GMT 1
18 Help - Beatles 17 Golden Lights - Twinkle 16 For Your Love - Yardbirds 15 It's Not Unusual - Tom Jones 14 Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire 13 Yesterday Man - Chris Andrews
6 more, 4 number ones and the highest two placed #2s. Barry McGuire is the higher of the two (the Yardbirds also peaked only at #2) and thus is the highest placed single of the year not to reach #1.
Whether or not "Golden Lights" would have reached #1 anyway without me knowing the Smiths cover so well, I don't know. I know the song was pretty much "unnoticed" by me in 1984 when I went through 1965 as a "retro" year before. In any case, she wrote the song herself, and was only 16 when it got to #1. That makes her the youngest artist ever to reach my chart who wrote her own hit. Debbie Gibson was also 16 when "Only In My Dreams" first charted but it reached #1 in my chart as a re-issue by which time she was 17. The youngest ever artist to reach my chart is Rachel Arianna who also said she had co-written her hit "Speechless". That only peaked at #6 though. Nina Ferraro (now Bonzie) wrote her first hit in my chart at the age of 14 - "Let It Go" peaked at #11 in 2009. The youngest artist to sing a #1 is Helen Shapiro, with "Walking Back To Happiness" in 1961 when she was 15, but Brenda Lee actually recorded "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" over 2 years before it was a hit, when she was still 13. Interestingly most of these youth are females. The youngest male to have a #1 in my chart is Johnny Crawford in 1962, 16 at the time of "Cindy's Birthday" and younger than Paul Petersen who was also 16 at the time of his #1 earlier the same year. Neither of them wrote their #1. (Note that Olivia Haschak is also only 10 years old and got to #2 as one of the Haschak Sisters in 2016).
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 26, 2016 14:06:27 GMT 1
12 Yesterday - Beatles 11 The Last Time - Rolling Stones 10 Long Live Love - Sandie Shaw 9 Tracks Of My Tears - Miracles
The classic Beatles song that was not released as a single in the UK gets the 12th position and is their 2nd highest placed single of the year. However the song just above it is also the 2nd best placed single by the Rolling Stones and nobody has two in the top 10 this year, although one person has written two of the top 8, singing on just one of them.
That means that "The Last Time" by the Rolling Stones is the highest 2nd placed hit by an artist. This has been won twice in the 1960s by Elvis Presley (1960 and 1962) and twice by Roy Orbison (1961 and 1964, the latter time with both the top 2) but in spite of all their #1s, the Beatles have not achieved it yet, as in 1963 it went to Peter Paul & Mary.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 29, 2016 1:01:44 GMT 1
8 Help Me Rhonda - Beach Boys 7 Mr Tambourine Man - Byrds 6 Ticket To Ride - Beatles 5 Here Comes The Night - Them
Up to this point the Beach Boys have had several hits with one #1, "Help Me Rhonda". I'm not sure I'd have guessed that this would be their #1 (rather than I Get Around, Fun Fun Fun or California Girls) but there we go. Of course we're expecting "Good Vibrations" in 1966. Will that get to #1?
The Byrds doing Bob Dylan with a riff borrowing the style of the song one song above it in this chart of the year, the highest placed single by the Beatles in 1965.
Them with Van Morrison got to #1 with a song for which I rejected Lulu's slower version (as did most of the British public).
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 30, 2016 20:36:18 GMT 1
**4 Let's Hang On - Four Seasons 3 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
For both artists, their second #1, The Four Seasons having done so early in 1963 with "Walk Like A Man" and the Rolling Stones doing so earlier in 1965 with "The Last Time".
Although "Let's Hang On" is still in the final chart of 1965 and might manage one more week, it won't catch the Rolling Stones.
At present, this Rolling Stones hit achieved a higher score (a bit like higher sales but every week has equal points for its positions) than any of the Beatles' hits.
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