Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1965
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1965
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1965 is a compilation album from Rhino Records. It first came out in 1989 and was re-released in 1993. The collection features 10 popular songs from 1965.
Seven of the tracks reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the other three made the Top 5. The year’s top hit was “Wooly Bully” by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs.
In the 1993 re-release, two Byrds songs and “Hang On Sloopy” were removed and replaced with “I Got You Babe” by Sonny & Cher and two Top 5 hits: “The Name Game” and “A Lover’s Concerto.”
Licensing restrictions meant no songs by The Beatles or The Rolling Stones could be included, a fact noted on the back cover.
Two songs from the 1993 re-release, “A Lover’s Concerto” and “1-2-3,” have been heard in the 1996 film Mr. Holland’s Opus.
This album sits in the Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits series, between the 1964 and 1966 editions.
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