Billboard Hot 100™ 9/4/65

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[1066AD]

Starting college (BSEE).

[Greg123456]

I just played those songs this week. I’m now playing country music from 1965, via : https://playback.fm/charts

[hardspunned]

Boris Badenov and Fearless Leader taught me all I needed to know about commies and Nazis.

[ckilmer]

Yeah the downside of that era are apparent. one show I recall when my family lived in california in those years was the jetsons. as a kid I thought all the science fiction stuff would be fulfilled in a decade or two. It didn’t happen. But now it looks like all the underlying technologies are in place for the truely science fiction world that science fiction writers have been talking about for 70 years or so. Its going to come as fast and faster than the flow scientific achievements in the 1960’s. The social stuff will still suck.

[hardspunned]

I don’t know how I missed that one. I’m even a big OSU Buckeye fan.

[hardspunned]

Yep, they’re called ear buds.

[hardspunned]

That’s how I listened to Reds games when they played night games at Dodger Stadium. Also, clear channel stations come in from everywhere late at night. WABC, WLS, WWL, WHO, WSM, WLW

[dznutz]

The “national anthem” of Ohio.

[Lean-Right]

I remember, quite vividly,
September 1965. A young lad
of ten years old. Life then
was carefree, nothing but
baseball, swimming in the
river, fishing, and spying
on the topless coeds sun
bathing at Sonoma State.
Fond memories.
Great music list, and I
remember every single one.

[Steely Tom]

I did the EXACT same thing! I’d fall asleep and awaken the next morning with a dead battery in the radio. :(

I think keeping that radio, not losing it, and getting new batteries once in a while, was the first thing I ever really got responsible about.

[7thson]

I was 8 years old, living in Bladensburg, Maryland.

[Fiji Hill]

Who remembers where they were in September 1965?

I was in Darmstadt, Germany, where my father was a teacher for the Department of Defense Dependent Schools (DODDS). I was attending Darmstadt American School, and he was my vocal music teacher.

We listened to the American military radio station, Armed Forces Network (AFN) out of Frankfurt. They did not broadcast any Top 40 music--the playlist was strictly Adult Contemporary, so you would have heard songs like "Moon Over Naples" by Bert Kaempfert or "Ain't it True?" by Andy Williams, and you would never hear "Heart Full of Soul" by the Yardbirds, "Liar, Liar" by the Castaways, and most certainly not "Eve of Destruction" on a station run by the US Military.

Nonetheless, someone brought a disc of "Eve of Destruction" to my music class, taught by my dad, and we listened to it. But neither I nor my dad liked it.

We also got the hear some Top 40 tunes at a snack bar across the street from the school, where they kept the juke box up to date, and also in the juke box at the cafeteria at the US Army barracks.

And we also listened to some of the German stations. Nini Rosso's Il Silenzio was a monster hit in Europe at the time, but it went nowhere in the US.

When I got back to the US in 1966, the first thing I did was turn my radio dial to Boss Radio 93 KHJ, my favorite Top 40 blaster.

[Fiji Hill]

In September, "Hang on, Sloopy" was probably played more than any other record in the jukebox across the street from my school in Darmstadt, Germany. This was a remake of My Girl, Sloopy by the Vibrations, a local hit in Los Angeles about a year previously.

[Fiji Hill]

I listened to the 1965 World Series over the Armed Forces Network from our home in Gross-Zimmern, Germany. The broadcasts were late late at night, but it was a thrill to hear the familiar voice of Dodgers announcer Vin Scully more than 6,000 miles away from LA.

[ifinnegan]

“ Boris Badenov and Fearless Leader taught me all I needed to know about commies and Nazis.”

So you became one.

[Fresh Wind]

Back in those long lost days, my radio listening involved exploring the airwaves, and I found stations like WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia and their Jamboree program. That's when I learned to love real country music and bluegrass.

Most R&R at the time did little for me. The trouble with top 40 radio was that for every song I enjoyed, there were a dozen or so that I couldn't care less about. That all changed for me a couple of years later as top 40 gave way to the progressive rock era, largely on FM, but in '65 I was on a different path than most of my peers.

What a long strange trip its been, and I'm glad I didn't miss it!

[frank ballenger]

Ha. Mad Magazine was always right.

[hardspunned]

I had a Philco am in this huge cabinet. Dated from probably the 40s. I also had my uncle’s old Hallicrafter short wave receiver. Like I originally said, this was the beginning of the best 10 years of music ever. That next ten years encompasses that period you speak of. Disco killed it and it never really came back. Country music went belly up at about the same time.

I’m glad we were radio rather than internet kids.

[Fresh Wind]

I lived in NJ so I had the New York radio stations to chose from. I was, and still am a huge fan of talkers Jean Shepherd and Long John Nebel. Shep was a bargain basement philosopher and raconteur, and his stories were the basis of the Christmas Story movie. Nebel was the precursor of Art Bell and later George Noory, and I learned all about flying saucers in the middle of the night on Nebel’s show when I should have been asleep.

I had my grandfather’s Stromberg Carlson floor model radio with motorized pushbutton tuning and a war surplus aircraft direction finder radio for broadcast band dxing.

Hundreds of Shep’s shows have been loving preserved by fans and can be heard on YouTube. I contributed a few of them.