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1965 – A Half Century Ago, Pop Music Had Its Greatest Year Ever

Bob Dylan released his first electrified album, Bringing it All Back Home, on March 22.  The Beach Boys recorded California Girls April 6, and the Beatles had five No. 1 hits to lead the British invasion.

The year was 1965, a year that according to author Andrew Grant Jackson stands out from any before or since for is abiding and influential musical groups and songs.

In 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music, Jackson lays folk, rock, funk, Motown and country music alongside tumultuous social and political events to offer a strong, and highly entertaining, support for his argument.   But with that, he tells story after story from behind the scenes, including Barry Gordy’s romance with Diana Ross, the Beatles introduction to marijuana and the Byrd’s dislike of Bob Dylan.

And Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction” hit No.1 in September.  With its references to Selma and Vietnam, it had one foot in fading protest folk and the other in rising antiwar rock anthems.

Country music had its own revolution as musicians like Buck Owens, bucking Nashville, promoted black country singer Charley Pride to the point of defying death threats at clubs on tour.

The Supremes, leading an ever-widening acceptance of black acts by white audiences, had four No. 1 hits in 1965 to help pave the way for Smokey Robinson, the Temptations, Junior Walker and other Motown acts.

The influence of the 1950s was finally fading, and a new era was dawning, bigger than anyone knew at the time.

• Greg G. Weber

No 1 Hits of 1965

Barry McGuire:    “Eve of Destruction”

Beach Boys:   “Help Me, Rhonda”

Beatles:    “I feel Fine”,  “Eight Days a Week”,  “Ticket to Ride”,  “Help!”,  “Yesterday”

Byrds:    “Mr. Tambourine Man”,  “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season)”

Dave Clark Five:    “Over and Over”

Four Tops:   “I Can’t Help Myself”’

Freddie and the Dreamers:   “I’m Telling You Now”

Gary Lewis and The Playboys:    “This Diamond Ring”

Herman’s Hermits:   “Mrs Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter”,  “I’m Henry the VIII, I Am”

McCoys:    “Hang on Sloopy”

Petula Clark:     “Downtown”

Righteous Brothers:    “You’ve Got That Lovin’ Feelin’ “

Rolling Stones:    (“I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”,  “Get Off of My Cloud

Sonny & Cher:    “I Got You Babe”

Supremes:    “Come See About Me”,  “Stop! In the Name of Love”,  “Back In My Arms Again”.  “I Hear a Symphony”

Temptations:     “My Girl”

Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders:     “Game of Love”

Great music, and we all can remember a specific time and place when each of these was played!!