I have been going on this past month about how great a year 1965 was in popular music while going over the 25 #1 hits of that year. I thought I’d rank them 25-to 1. Tough to do- the Top 20 songs I like a lot- the bottom 5ive were rather easy to rank since I could do without all five.
- 25. This Diamond Ring-Gary Lewis And The Playboys
- 24. I’m Telling You Now- Frankie And The Dreamers
- 23. Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter- Herman’s Hermits
- 22. I’m Henry XIII, I Am- Herman’s Hermits
- 21. Over and Over- Dave Clark Five
- 20. Eve Of Destruction- Barry McGuire
- 19. Help Me Rhonda- The Beach Boys
- 18. Back In My Arms Again- The Supremes
- 17. Game Of Love- Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders
- 16. Stop! In The Name Of Love- The Supremes
- 15. I Hear A Symphony- The Supremes
- 14. I Can’t Help Myself- The Four Tops
- 13. Downtown- Petula Clark
- 12. I Got You Babe- Sonny and Cher
- 11. Hang On Sloopy- The McCoys
- 10. Eight Days A Week- The Beatles
- 9.Turn! Turn! Turn!- The Byrds
- 8-Get Off Of My Cloud- The Rolling Stones
- 7. My Girl- The Temptations
- 6-Mr. Tambourine Man- The Byrds
- 5- Ticket To Ride- The Beatles
- 4-Yesterday- The Beatles
- 3-Help! -The Beatles
- 2- Satisfaction- The Rolling Stones
- 1-You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’- The Righteous Brothers
slicethelife 
You surprised me with one and two…. You can’t lose anyway.
Difficult to rank these so many good ones- as I said I think 5 stick out as less than stellar- those were easy to separate from the Top 20. What a year- wouldn’t it have been great to have been around and listening to the radio that year?
The mid sixties was the time to be around. The experimentation and the great competition pushing the bands along.
I WAS around and listening to the radio that year. :p
Lucky you!!
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Lots of fun songs in this list. Memories.
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I was around that year too, and it was great – at least musically! I generally agree with your rankings, and my top 10 would be:
1. Satisfaction
2. You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
3. Stop! In the Name of Love
4. I Can’t Help Myself
5. Downtown
6. Yesterday
7. Mr. Tambourine Man
8. Help!
9. Ticket to Ride
10. I Got You Babe
Strong Top 10– those are hard songs to rank- if I looked at them again next month I am sure some would probably switch around a ranking or two- depending on the mood. It was hard not having “Satisfaction” at #1. The deciding factor- If I could listen to one of those -which would I want to hear…… the best song at least in my opinion of 1965 didn’t make it to #1 Like A Rolling Stone- peaked at #2.
Like A Rolling Stone would probably be #3 on my list for 1965.
I was around back then too wearing out my Supremes album.
They sure made great singles- the only album of theirs that I own is a 3 album career covering anthology. How were the individual albums?
The ones my younger sister and I played over and over were Where Did Our Love Go and More Hits by the Supremes. We’d pretend we were the group minus one. Because I was older, I was always Dianna Ross, lol. So many great songs on those albums but my fave was Come See About Me.
They were a hit making machine!
I was alive back then but not playing records or anything, but still, when you display a list like this, I know at least 3/4 of the songs. They must have sunk into my consciousness from they radio, being played over and over and over.