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Top 10 hit songs of 1965

 

#1   (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction    (The Rolling Stones)
#2    I Can’t Help Myself    (The 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)

 

Other Popular Hits of 1965

 King of the Road (Roger Miller) 
 I'll Never Find Another You (Seekers) 
 The Carnival Is Over (Seekers) 
 Eve of Destruction (Barry McGuire) 
 What's New Pussycat (Tom Jones) 
 I Got You, Babe (Sonny & Cher) 
 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds) 
 Ferry across the Mersey (Gerry & the Pacemakers) 
 Mrs. Brown You Have a Lovely Daughter (Herman's Hermits) 
 Stop! In the Name of Love (Supremes) 
 I Hear a Symphony (Supremes) 
 Get off of My Cloud (Rolling Stones)

The Sound of Silence" ... Simon and Garfunkel

"We Can Work It Out" ... The Beatles

"My Love" ... Petula Clark

"Lightnin' Strikes" ... Lou Christie

"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" ... Nancy Sinatra

"The Ballad of the Green Berets" ... Sgt. Barry Sadler
"Soul and Inspiration" ... The Righteous Brothers

"Good Lovin'" ... The Young Rascals

"Monday, Monday" ... The Mamas and the Papas

"When a Man Loves a Woman" ... Percy Sledge

 

 

Popular Television Shows 

 Bonanza (NBC)
 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (CBS)
 The Lucy Show (CBS)
 The Red Skelton Hour (CBS)
 Batman  (ABC)

 The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS)
 The Andy Griffith Show (CBS)
 Bewitched (ABC)  

 Hogan's Heroes (CBS)

 

Top grossing films:

 

 Mary Poppins 

 The Sound of Music  

 Goldfinger 

 My Fair Lady 

 What's New Pussycat?

 Shenandoah

 The Sandpiper

 Father Goose

Popular Movies

1. Thunderball
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. Darling
4. That Darn Cat
5. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
6. Lt. Robin Crusoe, USN
7. The Silencers
8. Torn Curtain
9. Our Man Flint
10. A Patch of Blue

Academy Awards

Best Picture: "The Sound of Music"
Best Director: Robert Wise "The Sound of Music" 
Best Actor: Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou"
Best Actress: Julie Christie in "Darling"

Click on Oscar to see a complete list of the Academy Awards that aired April 18, 1966 for movies that primired in 1965.  

 

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