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Music History Events: Charts

March 5, 1966 Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler's "The Ballad Of The Green Berets" hits #1 for the first of five weeks.

March 5, 1966 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass's album Going Places hits #1 in America. It's the second of five #1 albums for the group in the span of 1965-1968.

February 19, 1966 Lou Christie electrifies the charts when "Lightnin' Strikes" hits #1.

February 5, 1966 Petula Clark's "My Love" hits #1 on the Hot 100 for the first of two weeks.

January 8, 1966 Rubber Soul becomes The Beatles' seventh #1 US album. It stays at the top for six weeks.

January 1, 1966 The Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album Whipped Cream and Other Delights kicks off 1966 with its sixth week at #1 in America. It falls off the next week but returns for two more weeks in February. By the end of the year, Alpert's albums spend a total of 18 weeks at the top spot, more than any other act, including The Beatles.

December 25, 1965 The Dave Clark Five's "Over And Over" hits #1.

November 20, 1965 "I Hear A Symphony" by The Supremes goes to #1 in America for the first of two weeks.

November 6, 1965 "Get Off Of My Cloud" by The Rolling Stones hits #1 in America for the first of two weeks. The song was written in response to record company pressure to follow up "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" with another hit.

October 9, 1965 The Beatles' "Yesterday" hits #1 for the first of two weeks. Paul McCartney is the only group member to play on the track; he's augmented by a string section. The melody came to him in a dream.

October 2, 1965 "Hang On Sloopy" by The McCoys hits #1 in America. The song was originally released the previous year as "My Girl Sloopy" by the R&B group The Vibrations. That version went to #26.

September 25, 1965 Barry McGuire's "Eve Of Destruction" hits #1, where it will stay for one week.

September 11, 1965 The Beatles' Help! album hits #1 in America and stays for nine weeks.

August 28, 1965 "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" becomes James Brown's first song to cross over to the Top 10 of the Hot 100, where and lands at #10 (it peaks at #8 the following week). Brown's "new bag" is stressing the downbeat (the "one"), creating an unusual and very appealing rhythm.

August 21, 1965 The Rolling Stones album Out Of Our Heads hits #1 in the US, supplanting Beatles VI.

July 10, 1965 The Rolling Stones "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" hits #1 in America. It stays for four weeks, becoming the biggest hit of 1965.

June 12, 1965 The Supremes' "Back in My Arms Again" hits #1 in America, giving them five consecutive chart-toppers.

May 29, 1965 The Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda," with Al Jardine on lead vocals, goes to #1 in America.

May 22, 1965 "Ticket To Ride" becomes The Beatles' eighth #1 US single.

May 8, 1965 "Count Me In" makes Gary Lewis and the Playboys the only American act in the US Top 10. Their song is #2 behind "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter" by Herman's Hermits.

April 24, 1965 Written by Clint Ballard, "Game of Love" by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders hits #1.

April 10, 1965 Freddie & the Dreamers' "I'm Telling You Now" goes to #1 in the US.

March 16, 1965 "The Last Time" becomes The Rolling Stones' third #1 single in the UK.

March 13, 1965 The Beatles land their seventh #1 hit in America with "Eight Days A Week."

March 6, 1965 The Temptations' "My Girl," co-written by Smokey Robinson, hits #1 in America.

February 6, 1965 The Righteous Brothers' yearning "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'," written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and produced by Phil Spector, hits #1 in America.

January 9, 1965 The Beatles' Beatles 65 jumps from #98 to #1 on the Billboard albums chart in one week. The group has two other entries in the Top 10 as well: A Hard Day's Night (#6) and The Beatles' Story (#7).

January 2, 1965 Elvis Presley's soundtrack LP Roustabout hits #1.

December 14, 1964 In spite of (or, perhaps, because of) being banned by some radio stations, The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" hits #2 on the Hot 100 (held off the top spot by The Singing Nun's "Dominique").

December 12, 1964 Bobby Vinton's "Mr. Lonely" hits #1.