It’s 55 years and 5 months before Sadie is born and 11 years and 11 months before Thomas is. How’s that for a set of numbers? Let’s go hear what March, 1965 sounds like…
Songs of the month
“All Day And All Of The Night” – Kinks
[new] “Ask The Lonely” – Four Tops
“Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat” – Herman’s Hermits
[new] “Come Home” – Dave Clark Five
[new] “Do The Clam” – Elvis Presley
[new] “Do You Wanna Dance” – Beach Boys
[new] “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” – Animals
“Downtown” – Petula Clark
“Eight Days A Week” – Beatles
“Ferry Cross The Mersey” – Gerry & The Pacemakers
[new] “Go Now” – Moody Blues
“Goldfinger” – Shirley Bassey
“Goodnight” – Roy Orbison
“Hurts So Bad” – Little Anthony & The Imperials
“I Go To Pieces” – Peter & Gordon
[new] “I’m Telling You Now” – Freddie & The Dreamers
“I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail” – Buck Owens
[new] “If I Loved You” – Chad & Jeremy
“King Of The Road” – Roger Miller
“Laugh Laugh” – Beau Brummels
“Little Things” – Bobby Goldsboro
[new] “Long Lonely Nights” – Bobby Vinton
[new] “Midnight Special” – Johnny Rivers
“My Girl” – Temptations
[new] “Nowhere To Run” – Martha & The Vandellas
[new] “People Get Ready” – Impressions
“Red Roses For A Blue Lady” – Bert Kaempfert
[new] “Red Roses For A Blue Lady” – Vic Dana
[new] “Send Me The Pillow You Dream On” – Dean Martin
“Shake” – Sam Cooke
[new] “Shotgun” – Junior Walker & The All Stars
[new] “Stop! In The Name Of Love” – Supremes
[new] “Stranger In Town” – Del Shannon
“Tell Her No” – Zombies
“The Birds And The Bees” – Jewel Akens
“The Boy From New York City” – Ad-Libs
“The Jolly Green Giant” – Kingsmen
“The Name Game” – Shirley Ellis
[new] “The Race Is On” – Jack Jones
“This Diamond Ring” – Gary Lewis & The Playboys
[new] “Tired Of Waiting For You” – Kinks
“Twine Time” – Alvin Cash
[new] “Yeh Yeh” – Georgie Fame
“You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” – Righteous Brothers
[new] = New to the chart this week.
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.
This month in history
On the first of the month Olympic swimming champion and 1964 Australian of the Year Dawn Fraser was banned from competition for ten years by the Australian Amateur Swimming Union, in apparent disapproval of her partying lifestyle and for her behavior during the 1964 Summer Olympics…. (apparently she wore a non-regulation swimming costume, oo-eer!)
On the 10th, in “look how far we’ve come in a short time” news, in France, the cabinet of President Charles de Gaulle approved a bill to remove many of the restrictions placed on married women, in what Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte described as “a veritable emancipation of the wife”. At the time, married women were not allowed to take a job, open a bank account, or spend their own earnings without their husband’s consent.
In a big month for the space race, on the 18th Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov left the airlock on his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes and 9 seconds becoming the first person to “walk in space”.
Then on the 23rd, the relative lagards, the United States launched Gemini 3, the first crewed mission of the Gemini program, the nation’s first space mission with two astronauts, and the first maneuverable spacecraft from any nation. The crew were command pilot Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom and pilot Astronaut John W. Young. The Gemini capsule (named for the “Unsinkable Molly Brown” by Grissom, who managed to escape his Mercury-Redstone 4 capsule in 1961 before it sank) made three orbits around the Earth.
What’d Sadie think?
A week at the top for “My Girl” – Temptations before “Eight Days A Week” takes it for two weeks, and “Stop! In The Name Of Love”, a great newcomer by the Supremes rounds out the month.
Loved ’em
Favourite new tune of the month has to be the Animals with “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”, a cover of a Nina Simone original from the year prior.
- “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” – Animals
- “I’m Telling You Now” – Freddie & The Dreamers
- “Midnight Special” – Johnny Rivers
- “People Get Ready” – Impressions
- “Stop! In The Name Of Love” – Supremes
- “Yeh Yeh” – Georgie Fame
Liked ’em
- “Ask The Lonely” – Four Tops
- “Come Home” – Dave Clark Five
- “Do The Clam” – Elvis Presley
- “Do You Wanna Dance” – Beach Boys
- “Go Now” – Moody Blues
- “If I Loved You” – Chad & Jeremy
- “Long Lonely Nights” – Bobby Vinton
- “Red Roses For A Blue Lady” – Vic Dana
- “Shotgun” – Junior Walker & The All Stars
- “Send Me The Pillow You Dream On” – Dean Martin
- “Stranger In Town” – Del Shannon
- “The Race Is On” – Jack Jones
- “Tired Of Waiting For You” – Kinks
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.