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18 May 2005

Popular ’65

I give a mark out of 10 to each track. These polls are for you to select any tracks that you would have given 6 or more to (by whatever criteria you fancy!)

Number One Hits Of 1965: Which Would You Have Given 6 Or More?

• Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames - "Yeh Yeh"
• The Moody Blues - "Go Now"
• The Righteous Brothers - "You've Lost That Loving Feeling"
• The Kinks - "Tired Of Waiting For You"
• The Seekers - "I'll Never Find Another You"
• Tom Jones - "It's Not Unusual"
• The Rolling Stones - "The Last Time"
• Unit Four Plus Two - "Concrete And Clay"
• Cliff Richard - "The Minute You're Gone"
• The Beatles - "Ticket To Ride"
• Roger Miller - "King Of The Road"
• Jackie Trent - "Where Are You Now (My Love)"
• Sandie Shaw - "Long Live Love"
• Elvis Presley - "Crying In The Chapel"
• The Hollies - "I'm Alive"
• The Byrds - "Mr Tambourine Man"
• The Beatles - "Help"
• Sonny And Cher - "I Got You Babe"
• The Rolling Stones - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
• The Walker Brothers - "Make It Easy On Yourself"
• Ken Dodd - "Tears"
• The Rolling Stones - "Get Off Of My Cloud"
• The Seekers - "The Carnival Is Over"
• The Beatles - "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out"
• None of them!

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Use the comments box to talk about the year in general, if you like.

Tom in FT /Popular • Pop/popular year poll • 505 views

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Comments

1. mike † on 5 June 2008 #

   The Yeh Yehs: 15.
   The Go Nows: 9.

   Good year, that.
2. DJ Punctum † on 5 June 2008 #

   What is this mysterious Cilla Black number one called “Long Live Love”?
3. Tom on 5 June 2008 #

   Haha oops. Will modify.
4. Tom on 5 June 2008 #

   This IIRC was kind of the heyday of the Haloscan comments era on Popular, so quite possibly all of these are slimly discussed now.

   The high tide of the 60s charts (well, this or 66, but even if I gave higher marks in 66 this feels just as vibrant) – before the album-as-aesthetic-unit started to really come into play. 14/24 ticks from me.
5. Dan R † on 5 June 2008 #

   What a wonderfulluy sunny Belle Epoque run of chart-toppers. I’ve just listened to most of them back-to-back and the air around me feels full of possibility. Remarkable, given the creeping misanthropy of the Stones, the cries for help and wistful regret of The Beatles, and the otherworldliness of The Byrds. These are harbingers of something else but for this year it appears to lock together in a tremendous sense of uplift and possibility.

   God knows whether it felt like that at the time, mind.
6. rosie † on 6 June 2008 #

   It felt like that at the time, Dan. And next year gets even better. The Belle Epoque indeed of my formative years. Something was definitely happening here – this list is quite different from even two years earlier.
7. Billy Smart † on 5 August 2008 #

   For a sense of upside-down context, here are the singles that got to number 40 on the same chart in 1965;

   7 Jan A Tribute To Jim Reeves – Larry Cunningham – 2 weeks

   4 Feb Long After Tonight Is All Over – Jimmy Radcliffe – 1

   18 Mar Stranger In Town – Del Shannon – 1

   27 May If I Ruled The World – Tony Bennett – 1

   24 Jun Back In My Arms Again – The Supremes – 1

   2 Sep You’re My Girl – The Rockin’ Berries – 1
8. Billy Smart † on 23 February 2010 #

   The phantom number ones of 1965, that topped the other (NME) chart;

   The Seekers – I’ll Never Find Another You (2 weeks)
   The Yardbirds – For Your Love (1)
   The Everly Brothers – The Price Of Love (1)
   Len Barry 1-2-3 (1)
9. wichita lineman † on 2 August 2010 #

   Those Dutch no.1s of 1965 in full:

   Beatles – I Feel Fine (5 weeks)
   Lucille Starr – The French Song (2)
   Gudrun Jankis/Stig Rauno – Let Kiss (8)
   Beatles – No Reply/Rock & Roll Music (3)
   Beatles – Ticket To Ride (9)
   Sam The Sham – Wooly Bully (4)
   Beatles – Help (6)
   Rolling Stones – Satisfaction (5)
   Dave Berry – This Strange Effect (3)
   Beatles – Yesterday (6)
   Beatles – We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper (7)

   No signs of flagging Beatlemania, then.

   Dave Berry’s hit is gorgeous, written by Ray Davies but never released by The Kinks.
10. thefatgit † on 3 August 2010 #

    Funny that! This is the year before i was born and yet a lot of the #1′s here are getting the big thumbs up from me. 18 of ‘em!
11. lonepilgrim on 3 August 2010 #

    interesting to see the success of ‘No reply’ on the Dutch chart – may explain it’s inclusion on a forthcoming 1989 hit
12. wichita lineman † on 3 August 2010 #

    1981 hit lonep.? I hadn’t thought of that, but as a callow teen Stars On 45 was my introduction – even though I knew a stack of Beatles records – to No Reply and I’ll Be Back. Not really the most obvious tracks to open a super-smashing Beatle medley. So melancholy!

    Almost all get my thumbs up, apart from Ken D, Carnival Is Over, G Fame and T Jones, with Unit 4+2 on the edge. Amazing year.

    Re 7: such a great year that Long After Tonight Is All Over, Stranger In Town and You’re My Girl would all have been worthy no.1s. All verrry intense and beautiful 45s.
13. lonepilgrim on 4 August 2010 #

    re 12 oh yeah..I’m getting it confused with another medley, soon to be discussed
14. lonepilgrim † on 19 December 2010 #

    there’s a slice of 1965 pop from the NME Pollwinners Concert to be found here:

    http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=658

    broadcast on TV, this must have been a pretty impressive show

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