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Music History Events: Charts

September 25, 1965 Barry McGuire's "Eve Of Destruction" hits #1, where it will stay for one week.

September 11, 1965 The Beatles' Help! album hits #1 in America and stays for nine weeks.

August 28, 1965 "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" becomes James Brown's first song to cross over to the Top 10 of the Hot 100, where and lands at #10 (it peaks at #8 the following week). Brown's "new bag" is stressing the downbeat (the "one"), creating an unusual and very appealing rhythm.

August 21, 1965 The Rolling Stones album Out Of Our Heads hits #1 in the US, supplanting Beatles VI.

July 10, 1965 The Rolling Stones "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" hits #1 in America. It stays for four weeks, becoming the biggest hit of 1965.

June 12, 1965 The Supremes' "Back in My Arms Again" hits #1 in America, giving them five consecutive chart-toppers.

May 29, 1965 The Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda," with Al Jardine on lead vocals, goes to #1 in America.

May 22, 1965 "Ticket To Ride" becomes The Beatles' eighth #1 US single.

May 8, 1965 "Count Me In" makes Gary Lewis and the Playboys the only American act in the US Top 10. Their song is #2 behind "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter" by Herman's Hermits.

April 24, 1965 Written by Clint Ballard, "Game of Love" by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders hits #1.

April 10, 1965 Freddie & the Dreamers' "I'm Telling You Now" goes to #1 in the US.

March 16, 1965 "The Last Time" becomes The Rolling Stones' third #1 single in the UK.

March 13, 1965 The Beatles land their seventh #1 hit in America with "Eight Days A Week."

March 6, 1965 The Temptations' "My Girl," co-written by Smokey Robinson, hits #1 in America.

February 6, 1965 The Righteous Brothers' yearning "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'," written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and produced by Phil Spector, hits #1 in America.

January 9, 1965 The Beatles' Beatles 65 jumps from #98 to #1 on the Billboard albums chart in one week. The group has two other entries in the Top 10 as well: A Hard Day's Night (#6) and The Beatles' Story (#7).

January 2, 1965 Elvis Presley's soundtrack LP Roustabout hits #1.

December 14, 1964 In spite of (or, perhaps, because of) being banned by some radio stations, The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" hits #2 on the Hot 100 (held off the top spot by The Singing Nun's "Dominique").

December 12, 1964 Bobby Vinton's "Mr. Lonely" hits #1.

December 5, 1964 The Beach Boys' Beach Boys Concert album hits #1 for the first of 4 weeks, claiming the top spot for the rest of December.

November 28, 1964 The Shangri-Las teenage tragedy song "Leader Of The Pack" goes to #1 in America.

October 31, 1964 "Baby Love" by The Supremes goes to #1 in America, giving them their second chart-topper (following "Where Did Our Love Go") and making them the first Motown act with two #1 hits.

October 17, 1964 Manfred Mann's version of "Do Wah Diddy Diddy," written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, hits #1 in America for the first of two weeks. The song was first recorded in 1963 by the female group The Exciters, who took it to #78.

October 10, 1964 "Leader Of The Pack," a song by the girl group Shangri-Las about a dreamy boy who dies in a motorcycle accident, enters the chart at #86. Despite the bleak subject matter, it rises to #1 at the end of November.

August 4, 1964 The Kinks release "You Really Got Me" in the UK. With a distorted guitar sound accomplished by taking a razor blade to an amplifier, it becomes their first hit, spending two weeks at #1 UK in September.

August 1, 1964 With The Beatles' album A Hard Day's Night already at #1 in America, the title track also hits the top spot, where it stays for two weeks. The film of that name - the first Beatles movie - is released in America 10 days later.

July 18, 1964 The Four Seasons' "Rag Doll" hits #1 for the first of two weeks.

July 4, 1964 Millie Small, part of the British Invasion, reaches #2 in America with "My Boy Lollipop."

May 23, 1964 Ella Fitzgerald's cover of The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" enters the UK chart, making her the first outside artist to have a hit with a Beatles song.

May 16, 1964 Mary Wells' "My Guy" hits #1 for the first of two weeks.