Top 20s - 1964/65

Continuing the theme of the last blog, here are my top 20 scoring 45s of 1964 and 1965, as recorded at the time:

1964

1. I get around - The Beach Boys

2. Baby I need your loving - Four Tops

3. My guy - Mary Wells

4= Shoop shoop song - Betty Everett (pictured left)

4= When I grow up - The Beach Boys

6. Nadine - Chuck Berry

7. Where did our love go - Supremes

8= Hi heel sneakers - Tommy Tucker

8= No particular place to go - Chuck Berry

10= When you walk in the room - Jackie DeShannon

10= Needle in a haystack - Velvelettes

12= Evenin' - Jimmy Witherspoon

12= Dancing in the street - Martha & the Vandellas

12= Oh no not my baby - Maxine Brown

15. Dance dance dance - The Beach Boys

16= Good news - Sam Cooke

16= Good times - Sam Cooke

18. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen

19. Walk on by - Dionne Warwick

20= I wonder - The Crystals

20=Bama lama bama lu - Little Richard

1965

1. Hold what you've got - Joe Tex

2. In the midnight hour - Wilson Pickett

3. People get ready - Impressions

4. Shake - Sam Cooke

5. Mr Pitiful - Otis Redding

6. Treat her right - Roy Head

7. Respect - Otis Redding

8. Voice your choice - The Radiants

9. You've lost that loving feeling - Righteous Brothers

10. I can't help myself - Four Tops

11= Yield not to temptation - Bobby Bland

11= It's too late baby - Arthur Prysock

13. King of the road - Roger Miller

14. 1-2-3 - Len Barry

15. My girl - Temptations

16= Don't mess up a good thing - Boby McClure & Fontella Bass

16= Woolly Bully - Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs

18= It's wonderful to be in love - The Ovations

18= Sugar dumplings - Sam Cooke

20. It's got the whole world shaking - Sam Cooke