The British Invasion 1965 Billboard Top 100

Below is the Billboard top 100 for 1964. To sort by a particular column, click on the header and change the order by clicking on the triangle.

#	Title	Artist	Top Rank	Date Highest Rank	Top 20 Weeks
1	Wooly Bully	Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs	2	1965/06/05	12
2	I Can't Help Myself	The Four Tops	1	1965/06/19	11
3	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	The Rolling Stones	1	1965/07/10	10	*
4	You Were on My Mind	We Five	3	1965/09/25	9	*
5	You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling	The Righteous Brothers	1	1965/02/06	12
6	Downtown	Petula Clark	1	1965/01/23	11	*
7	Help!	The Beatles	1	1965/09/04	9	*
8	Can't You Hear My Heart Beat	Herman's Hermits	2	1965/03/27	8	*
9	Crying in the Chapel	Elvis Presley	3	1965/06/12	10
10	My Girl	The Temptations	1	1965/03/06	10
11	Help Me Rhonda	The Beach Boys	1	1965/05/29	8
12	King of the Road	Roger Miller	4	1965/03/20	9
13	The Birds and the Bees	Jewel Akens	3	1965/03/20	8
14	Hold Me Thrill Me	Mel Carter	8	1965/08/29	7
15	Shotgun	Junior Walker & the All Stars	4	1965/04/03	8
16	I Got You Babe	Sonny & Cher	1	1965/08/15	8
17	This Diamond Ring	Gary Lewis & the Playboys	1	1965/02/20	9
18	The In Crowd	The Ramsey Lewis Trio	5	1965/10/09	8
19	Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter	Herman's Hermits	1	1965/05/01	10	*
20	Stop! In the Name of Love	The Supremes	1	1965/03/27	9
21	Unchained Melody	The Righteous Brothers	4	1965/08/29	8
22	Silhouettes	Herman's Hermits	5	1965/05/15	9	*
23	I'll Never Find Another You	The Seekers	4	1965/05/15	9	*
24	Cara Mia	Jay & The Americans	4	1965/07/31	8
25	Mr. Tambourine Man	The Byrds	1	1965/06/26	9
26	Cast Your Fate To The Wind	Sounds Orchestral	10	1965/05/08	6
27	Yes I'm Ready	Barbara Mason	5	1965/07/31	7
28	What's New Pussycat	Tom Jones	3	1965/07/31	8
29	Eve of Destruction	Barry McGuire	1	1965/09/25	8
30	Hang On Sloopy	The McCoys	1	1965/10/02	9
31	Ticket to Ride	The Beatles	1	1965/05/22	9	*
32	Red Roses For a Blue Lady	Bert Kaempfert	11	1965/03/20	7
33	Papa's Got a Brand New Bag	James Brown	8	1965/09/04	6
34	Game Of Love	Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders	1	1965/04/24	8	*
35	The Name Game	Shirley Ellis	3	1965/01/30	8
36	I Know a Place	Petula Clark	3	1965/05/01	7	*
37	Back in My Arms Again	The Supremes	1	1965/06/12	8
38	Baby I'm Yours	Barbara Lewis	11	1965/08/22	5
39	The Jolly Green Giant	The Kingsmen	4	1965/03/06	7
40	Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte	Patti Page	8	1965/06/26	5
41	Like a Rolling Stone	Bob Dylan	2	1965/09/04	7
42	I'm Telling You Now	Freddie & The Dreamers	1	1965/04/10	7	*
43	Ferry Cross The Mersey	Gerry & The Pacemakers	6	1965/03/20	7	*
44	Just Once in My Life	The Righteous Brothers	9	1965/05/15	7
45	The Seventh Son	Johnny Rivers	7	1965/07/03	7
46	I'm Henry VIII I Am	Herman's Hermits	1	1965/08/07	8	*
47	A Walk In The Black Forest	Horst Jankowski	12	1965/07/10	5
48	For Your Love	The Yardbirds	6	1965/07/03	7	*
49	California Girls	The Beach Boys	3	1965/08/29	7
50	Go Now	The Moody Blues	10	1965/04/17	6	*
51	Goldfinger	Shirley Bassey	8	1965/03/27	6	*
52	Down in the Boondocks	Billy Joe Royal	9	1965/08/29	6
53	Baby The Rain Must Fall	Glenn Yarbrough	12	1965/05/22	5
54	Catch Us If You Can	The Dave Clark Five	4	1965/09/25	6	*
55	Eight Days a Week	The Beatles	1	1965/03/13	8	*
56	Just a Little	The Beau Brummels	8	1965/06/05	6
57	You Turn Me On	Ian Whitcomb	8	1965/07/17	6	*
58	I'll Be Doggone	Marvin Gaye	8	1965/05/15	6
59	Save Your Heart For Me	Gary Lewis & The Playboys	2	1965/08/22	7
60	Tired of Waiting For You	The Kinks	6	1965/04/24	6	*
61	Count Me In	Gary Lewis & the Playboys	2	1965/05/08	7
62	All Day and All of the Night	The Kinks	7	1965/02/06	6	*
63	What the World Needs Now	Jackie DeShannon	7	1965/07/24	7
64	It's Not Unusual	Tom Jones	10	1965/05/29	6	*
65	She's About a Mover	The Sir Douglas Quintet	13	1965/05/29	4
66	Shake	Sam Cooke	7	1965/02/27	5
67	A Wonderful World	Herman's Hermits	4	1965/07/10	6	*
68	Nowhere to Run	Martha & the Vandellas	8	1965/04/10	5
69	Heart Full of Soul	The Yardbirds	9	1965/09/25	5	*
70	Love Potion Number Nine	The Searchers	3	1965/01/16	8	*
71	Laurie (Strange Things Happen in this World)	Dickey Lee	14	1965/07/10	3
72	Baby Don't Go	Sonny & Cher	8	1965/10/09	5
73	It Ain't Me Babe	The Turtles	8	1965/09/18	5
74	Tell Her No	The Zombies	6	1965/02/27	6	*
75	I Go to Pieces	Peter & Gordon	9	1965/02/20	5	*
76	Red Roses For A Blue Lady	Vic Dana	10	1965/04/03	5
77	Don't Just Stand There	Patty Duke	8	1965/08/15	5
78	Tracks Of My Tears	The Miracles	16	1965/09/04	4
79	Too Many Rivers	Brenda Lee	13		3
80	I Like It Like That	The Dave Clark Five	7	1965/08/07	4	*
81	Little Things	Bobby Goldsboro	13	1965/03/27	4
82	True Love Ways	Peter & Gordon	14	1965/06/05	5
83	It's the Same Old Song	The Four Tops	5	1965/08/29	7
84	You've Got Your Troubles	The Fortunes	7	1965/10/09	6	*
85	Hold What You've Got	Joe Tex	5	1965/01/30	6
86	We Gotta Get Out of This Place	The Animals	13	1965/09/25	4	*
87	Laugh Laugh	The Beau Brummels	15	1965/02/20	4
88	The Last Time	The Rolling Stones	9	1965/05/01	5	*
89	Do You Believe in Magic	The Lovin' Spoonful	9	1965/10/16	5
90	All I Really Want To Do	Cher	15	1965/08/22	4
91	Take Me Back	Little Anthony & The Imperials	16	1965/08/15	3
92	I Want Candy	The Strangeloves	11	1965/08/15	4
93	Ooo Baby Baby	The Miracles	16	1965/05/08	3
94	Laugh At Me	Sonny	10	1965/09/25	5
95	Treat Her Right	Roy Head	2	1965/10/16	7
96	The Race Is On	Jack Jones	15	1965/04/17	3
97	I'm A Fool	Dino, Desi & Billy	17	1965/08/15	2
98	The Boy from New York City	The Ad Libs	8	1965/02/27	5
99	Keep Searchin'	Del Shannon	9	1965/01/30	7
100	How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)	Marvin Gaye	6	1965/01/30	7

The Seekers were actually an Australian group that had some commercial success in Melbourne in 1963. In 1964 they travelled to the UK for a visit and ended up signing a record contract with EMI Records. They performed with Dusty Springfield and were introduced to her brother who had written "I'll Never Find Another You." They recorded the song and it became a #4 hit in the U.S. It was listed as #23 for 1965.

"Wooly Bully" was Billboard's top hit for 1965 even though it never made it to #1. It was kept from the top spot first by The Beach Boys' "Help Me Rhonda" and then by The Supreme's "Back In My Arms Again." But it did spend 12 weeks in the top twenty. The title character's name comes from lead singer Domingo Samudio's cat and is described as having "two big horns and a wooly jaw."

Herman's Hermits had the most songs in the top 100 with 5, the highest ranking being "Can't You Hear My Heart Beat" at #8. Between 1964 and 1967 they had 13 top twenty records with "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter" and "I'm Henry VIII I Am" both reaching #1.

Gary Lewis & The Playboys placed 3 records in Billboard's 1965 top 100, the highest ranking being "This Diamond Ring" (#17). When producer Snuff Garrett heard that Gary, the son of famous comedian Jerry Lewis, had a band, he signed them thinking that Jerry Lewis might help promote them. Garrett chose a song Bobby Vee had turned down, "This Diamond Ring" for their first release. Garret got Murray the K to play the record in New York and when it started getting air play there, he recruited Jerry Lewis to contact Ed Sullivan for an appearance on his show. "This Diamond Ring" reached #1 on February 20th, 1965. A string of hits followed until Gary was drafted in 1966. The band disbanded after that.

Sonny & Cher had two records in the 1965 top 100 as a duo and each had solo performance -- Cher's "All I Really Want To Do" (#90) and Sonny's "Laugh At Me" (#94). "I Got You Babe" was thier #1 record and was ranked #16 at the end of the year.

In early 1965, The Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" was in the top ten for nine weeks. It spent four weeks at #2 and two weeks at #1. The song was written by Brill buildig alums Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and produced by Phil Specter so it had a high pedigree from the start. It was the #5 ranked record for 1965. It made the top twenty again by Dionne Warwick in 1969 (#16) and again in 1980 by Hall & Oates (#12).

Motown's presence on the 1965 chart was led by The Four Tops with their #1 "I Can't Help Myself" ranked as the #2 song for the year. They also had "It's The Same Old Song" (#83) in the top 100 and ironically it did sound a lot like "I Can't Help Myself."