TOP SONGS OF 1965
1. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction ( The Rolling Stones)
2. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) (Four Tops)
3. Wooly Bully (Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs)
4. My Girl (Temptations)
5. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (Righteous Brothers)
6. Downtown (Petula Clark)
7. Help! (The Beatles)
8. Can't You Hear My Heartbeat (Herman's Hermits)
9. Crying In The Chapel (Elvis Presley)
10. You Were On My Mind (We Five)
11. I Got You, Babe (Sonny and Cher)
12. Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter (Herman's Hermits)
13. The Birds And The Bees (Jewel Aikens)
14. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (Mel Carter)
15. Shotgun (Jr. Walker and The All Stars)
16. Help Me, Rhonda (Beach Boys)
17. This Diamond Ring (Gary Lewis and The Playboys)
18. The "In" Crowd (Ramsey Lewis Trio)
19. King Of The Road (Roger Miller)
20. Stop! In The Name Of Love (Supremes)
1964-1965 Prices
Academy Award Winners
New On TV
Hot New Toys
1964
· Nutty Mads
· Gun That Shoots Around The Corner
· Bobbing Head Beatles Dolls
· Foto-Electric Pro Football Hall of Fame Game
· Addams Family "Thing" Bank
· Easy Bake Oven
· Agent Zero-M Invisible Ink Set
· Creepy Crawlers
· Mad Magazine Straight Jacket
1965
· Secret Sam Exploding Binoculars
· Shooting Cane
· Weird Clyde
· Screaming Mee-Mee Gun
· G.I. Joe
· Operation
· Man From U.N.C.L.E.
· Headquarters Transmitter
· Battleship
· Green Ghost Game
Top Ten Hit Songs
1965 the war in Vietnam continues to worsen as whatever the Americans do including major bombing of North Vietnam they continue to lose more men , at the same time the Anti-War movement grows and in November 35,000 march on Washington as a protest against the war. There is also civil unrest with rioting, looting and arson in Los Angeles. This was also the first year mandated health warnings appeared on cigarette packets and smoking became a no no. The latest craze in kids toys was the Super Ball and The Skate Board. Fashions also changed as womens skirts got shorter mens hair grew longer as the The miniskirt makes its appearance. Sony introduces it's doomed Betamax Recorder and Hypertext is introduced for linking on the Internet. The St Louis Arch is completed and The Beatles release 4 new albums including "Help".
Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program
Ranger 9 sends back live TV broadcast when it crashes on to the moon
Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space
Major Edward H. White II becomes the second human to walk in space during the flight of Gemini 4
Sony introduces it's Betamax video recorder
Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Space Walk Russia Aleksei Leonov - first person outside space vehicle
Optical Disk USA by James Russell - now Compact Disk
Hypertext USA for linking text on the Internet
Respirator ( replacement for the Iron Lung ) USA
Popular Culture
The Mary Quant designed Mini Skirt appears in London and will be the fashion statement of the 60's
One of most popular films "Sound of Music" released
The Beatles Release The Movie and Album Help!
The Beatles Play Live Concert Shea Stadium
The Grateful Dead with Lead guitarist Jerry Garcia play their first concert, in San Francisco
Popular Films
Mary Poppins
The Sound of Music
Goldfinger
My Fair Lady
What's New Pussycat?
Cat Ballou
Books Released
Dune
The Man with the Golden Gun
Hotel
Popular Musicians
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Freddie and the Dreamers
The Animals
The Kinks
The Searchers
The Seekers
Moody Blues
Donovan
Cilla Black
Dusty Springfield
Tom Jones