The list below of the Top 40 Songs of 1965 highlights several great and culturally seismic tracks from the year's biggest artists. Songs by many acts that never repeated their showcase moments ...

The use of the word “love” in the top 100 songs, for example, has dropped in half since 1965 (from around 400 to 200 references per year), while the word “hate,” which didn’t make it ...

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Even though the long-playing album had been around for more than a decade, and artists were using the form to construct entire thematic works from individual songs ... Top 20 Albums of 1965 ...

They, too, are part of the story of 1965, a year that drew a dividing line between the music that shaped the decade. You can almost hear the changes coming in these songs. 40.

“Crying the Chapel,” Elvis Presley Presley originally recorded this solemn track in 1960, but it wasn’t released until April 1965 ... also recorded the popular “Georgy Girl,” but ...