The Ultimate 60’s  Music Website

Site Navigation

  © All rights reserved SixtiesMusic.org

 Number Ones

Number Ones 1965


The Beatles started the year at the top of both charts with “I Feel Fine” which was the first of their five number ones in the U.S. that year. All written by Lennon & McCartney the others were “Yesterday”, “Eight Days A Week”, “Help!”, which reached the top in Britain. as did “Ticket To Ride”.

In the U.K. the Beatles had the final number one of the year with “Day Tripper/We Can Work it Out”.


The Four Tops hit the top with “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey bunch)” written by Holland, Dozier and Holland they also wrote all four of the Supremes U.S. number ones of 1965. They were “Come See About Me”, “Stop! In The Name Of Love”, “Back In My Arms Again” and “I Hear A Symphony”.


The Jagger & Richard’s compositions “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and “Get off My Cloud” were top in both the U.S. and U.K. for the Rolling Stones. They also had “The Last Time” at the top in the U.K. in March.


Other singles that reached the top in both charts that year were the hippie anthem “I Got You Babe” by Sonny & Cher written by Sonny Bono, the Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling” and the Bob Dylan composition “Mr. Tambourine Man” recorded by the Byrds. They also hit the top spot in America in 1965 with “Turn! Turn! Turn!”.


Petula Clark was the first British female artist in over a decade to reach number one in the U.S. with the song written by Tony Hatch “Downtown”.


The Dave Clark Five finished at the top of the charts that year in the U.S. with the song written by Robert Byrd “Over and Over”.


In the U.K. Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames took over from the Beatles “I Feel Fine” with “Yeh Yeh” followed at the end of January by  the Larry Banks & Milton Bennett composition “Go Now” recorded by the Moody Blues.


The Australian group the Seekers had two number one singles in 1965 written by Tom Springfield they were “I’ll Never Find Another You” and the “Carnival Is Over”.

They had a string of hits and were fronted by the excellent Judith Durham.


In June Elvis returned to the top in the U.K. with the Artie Glenn composition “Crying In The Chapel”.


The Hollies reached number one in the U.K. In 1965 with “I’m Alive” written by Clint Ballard Jr. he also wrote “The Game Of Love” which was a number one in the U.S. in April of that year for Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders.


The Walker Brothers took the Bacharach & David song to the top in September with “Make It Easy On Yourself”.

What were the N01’s in 1965 ?

1965

 Essential Artists

TOP DEALS

Shop Amazon Outlet - Clearance, Markdowns and Overstock Deals

Motown


60’s Compilations


Instrumental Groups


**********************


Herb Alpert


The  Animals


The Beach Boys


The Beatles


The Bee Gees


Cilla Black


Chuck Berry


CREAM


Blood Sweat Tears


Booker T & Mgs


Buffalo Springfield


THE BYRDS


Bob Dylan


ELVIS PRESLEY


Tom Jones


The Kinks


Cliff Richard


The Rolling Stones



 



Shop Amazon Gold Box - New Deals. Everyday

GREAT DEALS

Artists

Herb Alpert

The Animals

The Beachboys

The Beatles

The Bee Gees

Chuck Berry

Cilla Black

Booker T & M.G.s

Blood Sweat & Tears

James Brown

Buffalo Springfield

The Byrds




Pages Of Interest


Sixties Artists

Best Sixties Albums

Artists Real Names

Sixties Quiz

Contact Us


Disclaimer

Artists

Glen Campbell

Johnny Cash

Dave Clark Five

Cream

Creedence  C.R.

Donovan

The Doors

Bob Dylan

Duane Eddy

Everly Brothers

Four Tops

Gerry & Pacemakers




Artists

Jimi Hendrix

Engelbert Humperdinck

Tom Jones

Johnny Kidd & Pirates

The Kinks

The Lovin’ Spoonful

Mama’s & Papas

The Merseybeats

The Monkees

The Moody Blues

The Move

Roy Orbison




Artists

Elvis Presley

Procol Harum

Cliff Richard

The Rolling Stones

Instrumental Groups

Motown

60’s  Compilation





  © All rights reserved www.sixtiesmusic.org

Sitemap

60's Quiz