Top 10 Countdown

On Friday of each week, The 60s Official Site will showcase a countdown of the top ten songs of the current week of a particular year in the 1960s. So tune in at this web page weekly and check out what year we will be showcasing. Here you can listen  to the Top Ten songs  of the week from the Billboard Charts plus review the headlines for that week. It may have significance to your first love, your birthday, graduation or any special occasion that brings back the memories on how great the sixties truly were.

This week we look back to 1965. Playing right now are  the top ten songs from the Billboard Charts for week ending (February 6, 1965). 

News Headlines & Tidbits

for week February 3- Feb 9, 1965

Feb 8 - The Supremes' "Stop in the Name Of Love" was released. 

Feb 6  A Viet Cong raid on a base in Pleiku, South Vietnam, kills 8 Americans. This is done by Vietnamese believing that they are continuing a fight that began with French colonialism and that they are fighting murderous foreign intruders and a minority of Vietnamese who supported the French.

Feb 8  President Johnson orders more bombing in North Vietnam.

Feb 15  Canada acquires a new flag.

Feb 21 In New York, Malcolm X is assassinated in front of 400 people. His assassins will be described as members of Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam. 

Billboard Top Ten Countdown for week ending February 6, 1965

Be sure to check out next week's ccountdown from the current week of a particular year of the 60s decade.