Comments on: Popular ‘65

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:53:27 +0000

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

By: rosie

rosie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:59:14 +0000

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.

By: Dan R

Dan R — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:20:42 +0000

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.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:59:46 +0000

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.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:27:31 +0000

Haha oops. Will modify.

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:26:09 +0000

What is this mysterious Cilla Black number one called “Long Live Love”?

By: mike

mike — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:20:13 +0000

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

Good year, that.