The Top 100 Songs of 1965

1.	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	Rolling Stones
2.	Yesterday	Beatles
3.	Turn! Turn! Turn!	Byrds
4.	I Got You Babe	Sonny & Cher
5.	Help!	Beatles
6.	Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter	Herman's Hermits
7.	You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'	Righteous Brothers
8.	Downtown	Petula Clark
9.	I Can't Help Myself	Four Tops
10.	Help Me Rhonda	Beach Boys
11.	Stop! In The Name Of Love	Supremes
12.	This Diamond Ring	Gary Lewis & Playboys
13.	Get Off Of My Cloud	Rolling Stones
14.	I'm Telling You Now	Freddie & Dreamers
15	I Hear A Symphony	Supremes
16.	Eight Days A Week	Beatles
17.	Hang On Sloopy	McCoys
18.	Mr. Tambourine Man	Byrds
19.	My Girl	Temptations
20.	Over And Over	Dave Clark Five
21.	Eve Of Destruction	Barry McGuire
22.	Ticket To Ride	Beatles
23.	Game Of Love	Wayne Fontana & Mindbenders
24.	Back in My Arms Again	Supremes
25.	I'm Henry VIII, I Am	Herman's Hermits
26.	A Lover's Concerto	Toys
27.	Wooly Bully	Sam The Sham & Pharaohs
28.	Can't You Hear My Heartbeat	Herman's Hermits
29.	Like A Rolling Stone	Bob Dylan
30.	Treat Her Right	Roy Head
31.	Count Me In	Gary Lewis & Playboys
32.	1-2-3	Len Barry
33.	Save Your Heart For Me	Gar Lewis & Playboys
34.	Let's Hang On!	Four Seasons
35.	You Were On My Mind	We Five
36.	Crying In The Chapel	Elvis Presley
37.	The Birds And The Bees	Jewel Akens
38.	Love Potion Number Nine	Searchers
39.	The Name Game	Shirley Ellis
40.	I Got You (I Feel Good)	James Brown
41.	What's New Pussycat?	Tom Jones
42.	I Know A Place	Petula Clark
43.	California Girls	Beach Boys
44.	Shotgun	Jr. Walker & All Stars
45.	King Of The Road	Roger Miller
46.	I'll Never Find Another You	Seekers
47.	Cara Mia	Jay & Americans
48.	Unchained Melody	Righteous Brothers
49.	Rescue Me	Fontella Bass
50.	Keep On Dancing	Gentrys

51.	You're The One	Vogues
52.	The Jolly Green Giant	Kingsmen
53.	Catch Us If You can	Dave Clark Five
54.	Everybody Loves A Clown	Gary Lewis & Playboys
55.	Wonderful World	Herman's Hermits
56.	The "In" Crowd	Ramsey Lewis Trio
57.	Yes, I'm Ready	Barbara Mason
58.	Silhouettes	Herman's Hermits
59.	Hold What You've Got	Joe Tex
60.	It's The Same Old Song	Four Tops
61.	How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You	Marvin Gaye
62.	Make The World Go Away	Eddy Arnold
63.	For Your Love	Yardbirds
64.	Tell Her No	Zombies
65.	Tired Of Waiting For You	Kinks
66.	I Can Never Go Home Anymore	Shangri-Las
67.	Ferry Across The Mersey	Gerry & Pacemakers
68.	Taste Of Honey	Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass
69.	What The World Needs Now Is Love	Jackie De Shannon
70.	The Jerk	Larks
71.	All Day And All Of The Night	Kinks
72.	You've Got Your Troubles	Fortunes
73.	Fever	McCoys
74.	Seventh Son	Johnny Rivers
75.	Shake	Sam Cooke
76.	I Like It Like That	Dave Clark Five
77.	Just A Little Bit Better	Herman's Hermits
78.	Positively 4th Street	Bob Dylan
79.	Engine Engine #9	Roger Miller
80.	Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me	Mel Carter
81.	Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte	Patti Page
82.	You Turn Me On	Ian Whitcomb
83.	Papa's Got A Brand New Bag	James Brown
84.	Goldfinger	Shirley Bassey
85.	Just A Little	Beau Brummels
86.	Baby Don't Go	Sonny & Cher
87.	I'll Be Doggone	Marvin gaye
88.	Ain't That Peculiar	Marvin Gaye
89.	It Ain't Me Babe	Turtles
90.	Don't Just Stand There	Patty Duke
91.	England Swings	Roger Miller
92.	Nowhere To Run	Martha & Vandellas
93.	The Boy From New York City	Ad Libs
94.	The Clapping Song	Shirley Ellis
95.	Keep Searchin'	Del Shannon
96.	Do You Believe In Magic	Lovin' Spoonful
97.	Down In The Boondocks	Billy Joel Royal
98.	Heart Of Soul	Yardbirds
99.	I Go To Pieces	Peter & Gordon
100.	Just Once In My Life	Righteous Brothers

 

Herman's Hermits -  "Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Walker	We always had a good time listening to the tunes of our era and now some of the artists from the 60's are re-releasing their hits with new lyrics to accommodate us.  Good news, for those feeling a little older and missing those great old tunes... This  gave me quite a chuckle,  I hope it does you too!	Leo Sayer -  "You Make Me Feel Like Napping"
The Bee Gees -  "How Can You Mend A Broken Hip"		Paul Simon -  "Fifty Ways To Lose Your Liver"
Bobby Darin -  "Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' A Flash		Roberta Flack -  "The First Time I Ever Forgot Your Face"
The Temptations -  "Papa's Got A Kidney Stone"		Marvin Gaye -  "I Heard It Through The Grape Nuts"

 

How About 
A Walk down Memory Lane.........................

A little house with three bedrooms and one car on the street,
A mower that you had to push to make the grass look neat.
In the kitchen on the wall we only had one phone,
And no need for recording things, someone was always home.

We only had a living room where we would congregate,
Unless it was at meal time in the kitchen where we ate.
We had no need for family rooms or extra rooms to dine,
When meeting as a family those two rooms would work out fine.

We only had one TV set and channels maybe two,
But always there was one of them with something worth the view.
For snacks we had potato chips that tasted like a chip,
And if you wanted flavor there was Lawson's ® onion dip.

Store bought snacks were rare because my mother liked to cook,
And nothing can compare to snacks in Betty C! rocker's ® book.
The snacks were even healthy with the best ingredients,
There was no label with a hundred things that made no sense.

Weekends were for family trips or staying home to play,
We all did things together even go to church to pray.
When we did our weekend trips depending on the weather,
No one stayed at home because we liked to be together.

Sometimes we would separate to do things on our own,
But we knew where the others were without our own cell phone.
Then there was the movies with your favorite movie star,
And nothing can compare to watching movies in your car.

Then there were the picnics at the peak of summer season,
Pack a lunch and find some trees and never need a reason.
Get a baseball game together with the friends you know,
Have real action playing ball and no game video.

Remember when the doctor used to be the family friend,
And didn't need insurance or a lawyer to defend,
The way that he took care of you or what he had to do,
Because he took an oath and strived to do the best for you.

Remember when the country was united under God,
And prayer in schools and public places was not deemed as odd.
Remember when the church was used for worshipping The Lord,
And not used for commercial use or for some business board.

Remember going to the store and shopping casually,
And when you went to pay for it you used your own money.
Nothing that you had to swipe or punch in some amount,
Remember when the cashier person had to really count?

Remember when we breathed the air it smelled so fresh and clean,
And chemicals were not used on the grass to keep it green.
The milkman and the bread man used to go from door to door,
And it was just a few cents more than! going to the store.

There was a time when mailed letters came right to your door,
Without a lot of junk mail ads sent out by every store.
The mailman knew each house by name and knew where it was sent,
There was not loads of mail addressed to present occupant.

Remember when the words "I do" meant that you really did,
And not just temporally till someone blows their lid.
There was no such thing as no one's fault; we just made a mistake,
There was a time when married life was built on give and take.

There was a time when just one glance was all that it would take,
And you would know the kind of car, the model and the make.
They didn't look like turtles trying to squeeze every mile,
They were streamlined, white walls and fins and really had some style.

One time the music that you played when ever you would jive,
Was from a vinyl, big holed ! record called a forty-five.
The record player had a post to keep them all in line,
And then the records would drop down and play one at a time.

Oh sure we had our problems then just like we do today,
And always we were striving trying for a better way.
And every year that passed us by brought new and greater things,
We now can even program phones with music or with rings.

Oh the simple life we lived still seems like so much fun,
How can you explain a game, just kick the can and run.
And why would boys put baseball cards between bicycle spokes,
And for a nickel red machines had little bottled cokes.

This life seemed so much easier and slower in some ways,
I love the new technology but I sure miss those days.
So time moves on and so do we and nothing stays the same,
But I sure love to reminisce and walk down memory lane.  

What A Difference
The Years Can Make!

    A sure sign that you're getting "up there" is that you can remember back when

things were different ...
    A  LOT  Different!

    Consider some of the changes that we have witnessed!!!

    We were born before the PILL and the population explosion.

    We were born before TV, penicillin, polio shots, antibiotics, frisbees, frozen food, nylon, dacron, Xerox and contact lenses.

    We were before radar, flourescent lights, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams, and ball-point pens.

    For us, time-sharing meant togetherness ... not computers or condominiums.  A "chip" meant a piece of wood, hardware meant hardware, and software wasn't even a word!

    In our time, closets were for clothes ... not for "coming out of," and being gay meant you were happy and carefree.

    In those days, bunnies were small rabbits and rabbits were not Volkswagons.

    We were before Batman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Snoopy.

    We were before DDT, vitamin pills, disposable diapers, Jeeps, and the Jefferson nickel.

    We preceded Scotch Tape, the Grand Coulee Dam, M&M's, automatic transmissions, and Lincoln Continentals.

    When we were in school ... pizzas, Cheerios, frozen orange juice, instant coffee and McDonald's were unheard of.  We thought fast food was what you ate during Lent
and Outer Space was the back of the Riviera Theater.

    We never heard of FM radio, tape recorders, electric typewriters, word processors, electronic music, digital clocks, artificial hearts and guys wearing earrings.

    We were before pantyhose and drip-dry clothes, ice makers, dishwashers, clothes dryers, freezers, electric blankets, air conditioners and before Hawaii and Alaska became states.

    We were before yogurt, Ann Landers, plastics, hair spray, the forty-hour week and the minimum wage and before man walked on the moon.

    We got married first ... and then lived together afterward.  How quaint can you be?

    In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable, "grass" was mowed, "coke" was something you drank, "pot" was something you cooked in, "rock music" was a grandmother's lullaby and AIDS were helpers in the Principal's office.

    We were before coin-operated vending machines, jet planes, helicopters, and interstate highways.  "Made in Japan" meant junk and the term "making out" referred to how you did on your exam.

    We were before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers, and computer marriages.  We were also before day-care centers, group therapy and nursing homes.

    We had fountain pens with bottles of real ink.  We had stockings made of real silk with seams up the back that were never straight.  We had saddle shoes and cars with rumble seats.  We had corner ice-cream parlors with little tables and wire-back chairs where we had a choice of three flavors.

    We hit the scene when there were 5-cent and 10-cent stores where you bought things for five and ten cents.  You could buy ice cream cones for a nickel or a dime.  For one nickel you could ride a street car, make a phone call, buy a Pepsi, or enough stamps to mail one letter and two postcards.

    You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600 ... but who could afford one?  A pity too, because gas was only 11-cents a gallon.

    We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes was discovered, but we were surely before the sex change ... we made do with what we had.

    And we were the last generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a husband to have a baby!  Can you imagine that?

    ~ The above passages were Excerpted from a book called "Splashes of Joy In The Cesspools of Life" written by Barbara Johnson, which begins, "This is something I've put together from several sources ..." ~

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?

 

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?


It took five minutes for the TV warm up?

Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?



When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

 

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?




You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents?

They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . . and they did?
 

When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?

 

No one ever asked where the car keys were
because they were always in the car,
in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?

Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a "

and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

 

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once,
you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace,
and share it with the children of today?

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?

Basically we were in fear for our lives,
but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery,
the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,
Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.

As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games,
Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool,
and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?

I am sharing this with you today
because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on.
To remember what a double dog dare is, read on.
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
old enough to know better and too young to care.

How many of these do you remember?

Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles

Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes

 

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum

 

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

 

Newsreels before the movie

P.F. Fliers


Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines


Peashooters
Howdy Dowdy

45 RPM records

Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's

Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil

Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins

Studebakers

 Wringer Washing Machines
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel Tape Recorders
Tinkertoys

Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs

15 cent McDonald hamburgers

5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny candy

Butch wax

Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)

Blue flashbulbs 

35 cent a gallon gasoline

Jiffy Pop popcorn

Do you remember a time when...

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastes

 

 

Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?


It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
 
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?

A foot of snow was a dream come true?

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?

"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?

Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
 
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

 

 

Step Back In Time & Enjoy Yet Another "Blast From The Past"

With a Visit at Baby Boomer HeadQuarters

 

www.bbhq.com

 

 

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