Why 1965 Changed Music Forever

[@French-Kiss24]

Hearing today’s popular music, I realize how lucky we were in the 1960s. Such variety. Such richness. Music was so alive. At age 77 years old, I still know every word to every song.

[@mphrdldn]

Yes it seemed that once FM started the diversity of popular music declined.

[@davidjackson7281]

@@mphrdldn How so?

[@mphrdldn]

@@davidjackson7281I heard more prog rock on FM than dance music or female artists.

[@brucestarr4438]

@@davidjackson7281 In the USA, Mid to late 60s AM top 40 radio played a little of everything. When FM took over, it seemed each station was looking for their hook and a little slice of the market.

[@TraciShirah]

@@mphrdldn I hated progressive rock then and still do.

[@dieterschonefeld7428]

I was 15 that year, lived in the coutryside of southern Denmark near the border to Germany - with only gravel roads to the world - got a tape recorder and a tube radio. The "awakening" of that year was not just about `65, but about AWAKENINGS as such! In this video You brought back all that for real. THANK YOU !

[@1950Welshman]

Yes our generation probably lived through some of the best years in pop music. i was also 15 in 1965.

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

I was born in September this year 😊.

[@wowjef]

Me too - born 1950

[@mypalfootfoot9591]

"One hit song after another, all day long" that sums up the era!

[@piperpan5516]

There's always 'hit's', but this was a year of hit after hit of brilliant songs expressing a new emerging cultural landscape.

[@mypalfootfoot9591]

@@piperpan5516 Absolutely!

[@gladeloy3341]

& all of the night !

[@mypalfootfoot9591]

@@gladeloy3341 Perfect!

[@c.w.b.5409]

What a time be a teen 14

[@ThomasG--]

In January, 1965, I was in the middle of my junior year in high school. This is our music.

[@RogerPeet]

My favorite 5 years of music is 1965 to 1969. Those years had everything you could want.

[@freewheelingideas]

💯

[@bobmason1361]

Your five best songs?

[@garnetnewton-wade4091]

But not Father John Misty.

[@princetonnj1628]

1969-1974

[@RogerPeet]

@@bobmason1361 much tooo difficult to name just 5

[@robinharwood5044]

I don’t need to imagine it. I remember it.

[@jimburig7064]

I was fourteen in '65. What a time to be alive! Everything was clear and bigger than life.

[@TimesTimes3]

We experienced the best of rock radio in 1965. Too bad that young kids will never get that feeling today.

[@alexandrebenois7962]

Kids today have a great time in their smartphone.

[@nevermind5321]

Yea it’s sad

[@nancychandler367]

Oh but they are. They are listening to 1960's music 🎶

[@michaelsikora6739]

Don't worry, they have Taylor Swift!

[@nevermind5321]

@@michaelsikora6739 😂😂😂

[@garypautard1069]

Only people in my generation who lived through the sixties can tell you what an amazing decade it was. It was a new beginning , not just music but in art and fashion . There was a euphoria felt by everyone and being British was very cool. And talking about music did you notice the influx of Tamala Motown and Soul and Blues and how popular black music was back then. That's one in the eye for the modern myth about racism during this period.

[@abw48]

I was a Mod in the very early 60s, Vespa 125cc with head lamps on the front, The Who was a Mod Band and My Generation was our Anthem, then later in 1967 I became what the BBC called a Hippie though in London we called ourselves Heads just as the Americans called themselves Freaks. I grew up with The Four Tops, Temptations, Jimmy Ruffin and many others from the Motown label. When The Four Tops came to the UK we treated them almost like how the Americans treated the Beatles when they arrived in NYC. No regrets except I wish I had paid more attention as we had the most smart independent beautiful women, the best music and the best pure clean LSD as well as Afghan and Kashmir Hashish....Born in the UK 1948 and wondering how I made to 2024.

[@steveknight878]

It was a great time, for sure. There was hope for a better world - sadly not realized. And there was still plenty of racism during that time - just not so much among the youth - particularly in America. Lots of segregation of many sorts.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@steveknight878 Segregation was a very US American thing, even then. Most of the Western world had moved on to better ways of living. And now in USA today, it's some of the Black Americans calling for segregation.

[@thomastimlin1724]

@@steveknight878 Jacksonville Florida, the Beatles REFUSED to play to a segregated audience, and the authorities caved...they knew they would have a riot on their hands from both black and white young people together if they continued that damned nonsense. The Beatle s surely had guts...

[@steveknight878]

@@Thurgosh_OG Yes, segregation was a very USA thing - but I also remember it was quite common for notices in windows of rental flats to say No Blacks in the UK, sadly. There was plenty of racism at that time.

[@glennday7802]

65-69 living in Los Angeles and listening to 93-KHJ 'Boss Radio'' every day. Great memories!

[@Public-Citizen]

Emperor Hudson and Bob Eubanks on KRLA here.

[@TraciShirah]

I was 7 years old in 65 but still remember hearing the music of that year. I began saving allowance money to buy 45's throughout the 60s. I grew up on it and bet I know every word to every hit released that year. We listened to the radio nearly every day so memorized every song. There was something for everyone with the music of the 60s

[@zbigniewkosior2517]

I was 8 and just learning English

[@ibberman]

You got an allowance, lucky you.

[@jaw444]

Did they have an oldies station then? when my daughter was in elementary school in the mid-late80s/early 90s, they had an oldies station and that was all they played, mostly 60s, and that's all she listened to.

[@judycolson6047]

@@jaw444 We had an oldies station in the 70's in Cincinnati. WGRR and they played music from the 50's and 60's that decade. They're still around today, but have sadly dropped most of the music from the 60's (which is my fav). They now play much more 80's. To me the 80's saw the great decline in good rock music. Long live the 60's and 70's!

[@lacpigeoncameraderie3785]

I turned eight that summer, every day after school I was glued to the radio listening to 1050CHUM in Toronto. I got the measles in March of that year. and was off school for a week. I was in heaven. Herman's Hermits were being played every half hour! I had a little crush on Petula Clark. Loved an album called Beatles 6. Sharing a room with my 16 year old brother meant I had all the 45's I wanted to listen to and access to a transistor radio to hide under the covers and listen to at night. That was definitely a life - changing year.

[@BritishBeachcomber]

As a London kid back then it felt like I had been born in paradise. A beautiful time to be alive.

[@jimdep6542]

What a difference between then and now. It isn't "progress".

[@wildmountainthyme4123]

1965- My all time favorite year for music. I was 13 years old, and feel so fortunate to be alive during that wonderful time! It's hard to pick out my favorites songs, there were so many. However, offhand I would say "My Girl", "Satisfaction", "I Feel Fine", "I can't help myself", and probably my number one favorite, "Like A Rolling Stone". What a time to be alive!

[@clifforddfowler]

1965 was a magical time. I became a teenager, and the music scene was full swing. Underground and FM radio was about to challenge AM radio for dominance, bringing hi fidelity to broadcasts across the nation, while KPPC and KMET were gearing up with Wolfman Jack and Dr Demento, and some great music, obscured from the Top 100, but everybit as important. Motown was bringing the 4 Tops, Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, the Isley Bros, Chambers Bros, and the Temptations, and so many others, and While the Music played, Johnny was in the basement mixing up the medicine, along with Santos and Owsley. Everybody was happy, and spreading a message of love and sex seemed like the smartest message in the land, given the backdrop of Vietnam, and the insane violence in the world. Too bad it eventually all went sideways, and the message was highjacked by corporate greed, when the pretenders eventually gave in to materialism, moved to silicone valley, and killed many of our heros.

[@tuckloe5108]

Me too, 13 yrs. young ,,

[@Dawn-Songs]

'Wild Mountain Thyme' is one of my all time favourite songs . It holds very special memories. As for pop songs I liked many but was a folk music fan too . I loved Bob Dylan, Donovan, Leonard Cohen, Bert Jansch , Townes Van Zandt , Tim Harding . Pop music ..I liked The Hollies, The Kinks, The Byrds , most of the Motown music, the Rolling Stones ,some but not all of the Beatles . Those years were amazing . I like some music from the 70s and 80s too but after that not much appealed to me . The magic for me was from 1965 to early 70s . KZbin is brilliant because I now have made playlists of all of my favourite music and it's great to be able to see the videos too . 😊

[@wildmountainthyme4123]

@@Dawn-Songs I love the song "Wild Mountain Thyme" too, and that's why I chose it for my KZbin name. I also love a lot of folk music, including Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Peter Paul and Mary, the Chad Mitchell Trio, and lots more. Motown and of course rock music was also some of my favorite music. We were so lucky to be around for the 60's and 70's music!

[@Dawn-Songs]

@wildmountainthyme4123 I somehow guessed we're ' kindred spirits' 😊 Some of the folk artists' writing was like poetry unique to those times , yet still listened to now .

[@johnbethea4505]

Every decade had its music 🎶 , but the 1960's had so much good music to give.

[@Steve-d8s]

What about the late '70s all '80s and early 90s as far as I'm concerned that was the best music era

[@johnbethea4505]

@Steve-d8s never fear, age of youth makes the music 🎶 🎵 the best.

[@1950Welshman]

very very true

[@jamesdrynan]

I was fourteen that year, with my own group playing covers of most of the songs mentioned. It was a great time with a diverse musical world.

[@strickly60s45]

Hi James, Well...we were both born in 1951 by the "sound" of it. I'm still in love with that 60's music...but, gave up collecting more vinyl...due to my elder age...it's time to purge some. Best Of Times. Take Care.

[@strickly60s45]

@@jamesdrynan Thanks 👍 for the thumbs up James...it had to be quite happening & thrilling to take part as a hopeful band member...the closest that, I got was attending many a garage or warehouse room etc...just grooving and listening to guys messing around working on 60's tunes. I get my kicks today by singing (Karaoke-ing) songs like "96 Tears"...."All Day And All Of The Night". Gotta Have Music. Thanks

[@peterfoster8004]

I feel priviledged to have lived in that magic era, I was 19 in 65. We thought we could change the world but when I look at my contemoraries now it seems the world has changed them.

[@mypalfootfoot9591]

I agree, it is disturbing to see what has become of so many from our generation. However, it helps to remember that most Boomers were very much like their parents, the nascent counterculture was a very small part of the generation. Keep the dream alive brother, you're not alone!

[@MelissaThompson432]

Don't count them out. A lot has changed since then, much of it for the better. And it ain't over yet.

[@abw48]

You got that right as I see the current youth as The useful Idiot Generation of sheep.

[@nevermind5321]

I was born in 65 so I appreciated songs from the 70’s more, but there were still a lot of hit songs in the 60’s that I liked as a young kid.

[@ThomasG--]

I was 17.

[@kathyrizzi8754]

1965 was great! My 16th year & I enjoyed the British Invasion, we had the best music & the best of times, except the Vietnam War. Our young men were getting drafted & killed too many years! Some of the guys said, the music kept them going. Thank you all for your service in the 60’s-70’s. 👍♥️

[@markmurphy558]

In 1964, when four young men descended from a plane in mop tops, millions of young boys went up to their rooms and started practicing their guitar or down to the basement to bang on their drums. This created the talent pool that filled the school gym and local dances with the latest sound of rock. It wAs this cohort that created the sounds of the late sixties and seventies.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Led Zeppelin ruled the 1970s, and they were more influenced by 1950s rock n roll, the blues and folk.

[@The_Accuser]

@@lyndoncmp5751 Led Zeppelin were influenced by the countless musicians they STOLE their music from.

[@TurboMountTV]

@@lyndoncmp5751 And wouldn't have gotten past their basements without The Beatles opening the door and transforming music and the music business.

[@salinagrrrl69]

​@@lyndoncmp5751Rob iMmitated Janis A...LOT.

[@shaungold]

​@TurboMountTV All the individual members were already part of the music scene by 1965. They all would have succeeded with their talent. But together Led Zeppelin was greater than the sum of it's parts.

[@jimmime]

That was a great time to be alive and live through! Times have changed, and so has the music.

[@navret1707]

Not always for the better.

[@jimdep6542]

true and it's not what I consider to be progress.

[@MagioneUmbria]

I turned nine on the 20th of January, 1956. In those days we had ‘transistor radios’. We turned them way down and held them to our ears as we pretended to be sleeping. We listened to the world changing. Every town of any size had a ‘record store’. They contained zillions of 45rpm record. The teenagers in the neighborhood had ‘record players’ where we spent our afternoons listening to The Beatles and The Stones. We were dipped in rock-and-roll and folk and country-western. There were TV shows in the late afternoon that featured every act. We sat spellbound watching them change the world. It would have been magical had it not been for Vietnam.

[@Kvbftng]

We have just one record store , vinyl records. The CD I have I got with if anyone remembers newspaper in the Saturday and Sunday newspapers had CD every week and that why I never bought one.but still have my vinyl records and record player which I kept luckily , with vinyl records coming back.

[@Horatio1886build]

Yea I turned 6 in 65. Young but because I had older brother and sister music was all around. Even my born in the 20s parents like some of it P. Clarke Joan B, early Dylan. Wow what A time! I copied Mitch Miller😳

[@Horatio1886build]

I wanted to be a cool teenager so bad, how did they get into those pants I thought, how?

[@fredkrissman6527]

This looks really GROOVY! I was only 11 yrs young, but the music of 1965 changed ME forever... For the good!

[@freewheelingideas]

Definitely groovy! Enjoy ✌️

[@LucyLennon909]

Same here I was 12. 1965 was year#2 that I was in an official Beatles Fan Club. I recall that time like it was yesterday. My older brother was into the Stones and The Kinks.

[@fredkrissman6527]

Once I saw the Beatles in '64, @@LucyLennon909, no other band came close till they split in '70... I never joined any fan clubs -- I've heard you folks got some tasty benes in those clubs -- but I spent SO much time analyzing this music, esp the lyrics. My mom was stunned a few yrs later when I sat her down to listen to I Am The Walrus! Amazing time to be a curious kid!!!

[@Robert-qm5so]

​@@fredkrissman6527I admire you Fred. Me personally I started researching music from the 50s thru the 90s and I'm convinced that the best music started to blossom in 1962, and the music was so great and beautiful from '62 thru 1983. I may have been born too late, but thanks to my Pop, Mom Uncles, Aunts and cousins I am a pretty partial to good, beautiful well done music. (I'm only 32 years old) I wish I was there at that time like most of you cool folks 👌

[@fredkrissman6527]

Thanx @@Robert-qm5so, but it was only a fluke I grew up then, and was captivated by the emerging subculture. For ex, my very first concert, age 13 was the JimiHendrix' Experience... Tix were 5 bucks, which seemed exorbitant at the time (Ha!), but my 8th grade buddy bought them and arranged parental transport to&from the helLA Forum; I was just along for the ride, but was transformed that nite!!!

[@gdw967]

I remember listening to this music on one of my most prized possessions. My transistor radio.

[@Hoppenoffer]

From the days when everyone, all around the world, heard the same music on the radio. It was a variety of different musics. It brought people together.✌️❤️

[@artdonovandesign]

Yes. Indeed! Today, culture is far too fragmented.

[@maryalice5357]

Same with TV.

[@thomastimlin1724]

Yeh, no specialized 80,000 channels to separate [eoeplem and brian wash them into thinking there is only one kind of acceptable music.

[@The_Accuser]

The album that sums up 1965 as the focal point of change: RUBBER SOUL! 12 songs on one album that all could have been singles. Instead they recorded an a d d i t i o n a l two songs for a double A-side (Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out) single to be released on the same day.

[@kellyrobinson1780]

Most groups had 2 or 3 good songs per new album, and the other 8 or 9 or 10 were pretty much crap they used to fill the rest of the space. I don't think the Beatles ever did that; and IMO it was because they never published any crap. I can't think of one song on any of their albums that wasn't popular. Some never got released as singles, but fans knew every word to every song, and I don't think anybody playing a Beatles album or listening to one at a friend's house ever said, "Oh, skip that song, will you? I don't like it much. They could have just left that one off the album." Nobody ever wrote, played, or sang like the Beatles. And it didn't have to do with those aspects of their music separately. They wrote good lyrics, sometimes clever lyrics, but rarely GREAT lyrics; they sang well, with unique harmonies but no individual Beatle was a GREAT singer; they played well, but not one was a GREAT musician. But TOGETHER, they had a synergy, a chemistry like no band before or since. Together, they were a musical, cultural phenomenon without equal. They changed the entire world of music - twice. Where the Beatles led, music followed. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, all greats, and their music can be played yet today. Hand out the sheet music to a decent orchestra, and their music lives again, as it was the first time it was ever played. And sure, you can get sheet music and "play" the Beatles, but to COMPREHEND the Beatles, one has to HEAR them. Not somebody else, or another group playing their music, but THEM (although a tribute band here and there have been reasonably good). The four of them, on their own, individually, they were good. Good. Together, they were a juggernaut. And there may never anything like them again. But they left a legacy of recordings and stories that will live, hopefully, as long as humankind does.

[@Mr95691]

This is the greatest video i have ever seen or listened to. Thank you for the best years of my life that i can never explain to anyone.♥

[@freewheelingideas]

Wow I appreciate that 🙏 and you’re welcome!

[@DiarmuidOhibicin]

And the memories came flooding back. Thank you.

[@freewheelingideas]

You’re welcome

[@fredxxxxx]

Great video, the late 60's was an amazing time to be a teenager.

[@spaceengineer1452]

This is an excellent video presentation. Subscribed. Hi from Sydney. ✌️🎸

[@englishguy215]

I was 12 that year and loved just about every sound that came out of the radio, and a lot of those songs still rate in my list of favourites. Despite being only 12 I still remember that feeling of the whole world being on the edge of something really new, I didn't know what that new was going to be but it was definitely the best time to be growing up. There has never been a time quite like that since and I doubt if there will be another. Something very magical about the mid-sixties.

[@pattymiller9040]

I agree! I spent my teenage years in the 60s, loving all those groups and their amazing music. And, with transistor radio at my ear, I so enjoyed it!

[@enshrinehd]

I was very young in the 60's but I remember how I felt hearing these songs on the radio. I still feel excited listening to them.

[@frankhornby6873]

Oh I would love to time travel back to 1965.....I was 16yrs old about to leave high school in Kirkby Liverpool.....so many brilliant sounds.....what a decade!!....

[@1950Welshman]

I was 15 and left school in Neath South Wales in 65. how can i ever forget the Beatles

[@erents1]

Great video, takes me back to when I was eight years old, hearing these songs being played on radios in the family car, my older brothers and sisters record players and especially hanging out at the community swimming pool snack shack, groovy man.

[@justaguy6100]

There are many of us that miss how album covers were artworks in their own right.

[@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl]

Absolutely agree! It was the thing I regretted the most at the introduction of the CD. Going to a record shop changed and within a few years wasn't the same any more. However, that wasn't caused by the CD only.

[@MarkMiller-i8q]

I can relate to so much of this. I turned 16 in '65, got my driver's license and cruised around listening to many of these songs on AM top-40 radio. But usually in a hand-me-down 1961 Ford Falcon, not in the new Ford Mustang (which was built on the Falcon platform). It's only when we look back that we can appreciate what a revolutionary year this was for pop music. Back then, we were in the eye of the hurricane.

[@MelissaThompson432]

I was 6 and 7 (birthday in July) in 1965; it was pretty windy where I was....

[@barryhunt9499]

The people born just before or just after WWII were starting to grow up. Clue?

[@MelissaThompson432]

@@barryhunt9499 my 3 oldest siblings were born during the war years; they were between 20 and 23 in 1965. Too old for the Beatles, too young to be to blame for your attitude.

[@walterfechter8080]

The USA needed The Beatles to come along. The USA was still recovering from the murder of JFK and America's increasing involvement in the Vietnam war. All of that amazing sound helped get me through the loss of my beloved Dad in 1965. The Who and The Kinks were just two of my favorites. "I'll die a Mod" - Paul Weller. Thanks, Freewheeling!

[@freewheelingideas]

You’re very welcome 🙏

[@walterfechter8080]

@@freewheelingideas The Kinks - "Do You Remember Walter?" LOL!

[@MrKeithtoad]

Thank you for this! That WAS quite a year. I'm glad that I was there as a little 10 year old obsessed with the AM music coming out of Toronto and Hamilton Ontario. I remember as an act of defiance to my older Beatlemaniac sister I purchased Peter and Gordon's "World Without Love", mentioned herein, only to find that Lennon and McCartney wrote it. Harrumph. There was no escaping them.

[@stephenbaillie6270]

wow..one of the very best documentaries...ever...i was 15 in 65 now im 15 again thank you sooo much...

[@freewheelingideas]

Thank you for that incredible feedback 🙏

[@larrypower8659]

@@freewheelingideasToo bad it’s a bot.

[@1950Welshman]

Join the club man. i was also 15 and left school in September of that year. I get quite emotional when i look back to that fantastic era.

[@anthonylovavto3228]

Back in 65, I was a sophomore in high school, i might have mentioned to friends,I think we are living during a phenomenal time! I promptly forgot that feeling as the years unfolded toward the 70s largely because of being drafted by 68..i know longer found the times all the great to be alive!

[@mars56100]

I was 9 yrs. young & remember it WELL!!! Still listen to these great songs !✌️💙

[@SilasBeau123]

Loved every minute of this documentary! I was 14 years old and my daddy owned the popular radio station. I met many of the rockers of the time when they'd come through town on tour. Can you even imagine how cool I was!?! It all fell apart in the years to come but 65-69 where memories I'll always cherish, along with a pretty nice autograph book! 😜✌

[@freewheelingideas]

Awesome and thank you so much 🙏

[@Allan-ts1ux]

Was in 6th grade in 64 and remember how the Beatles became the best ... They took me away into the beatle mania and I was so convinced they would never breakup ... That was a sad day for the time..

[@cindychurch335]

My daughter is almost 40 years old but identifies with the 60’s in an uncanny way. I’m the same! I was born in 1956 but loved everything about this decade.

[@jackhidden1847]

1956 you were part of that decade. Not old enough to create the music but old enough to experience it, absorb it and be influenced by the music and events of the time. A true child of the 60's ✌️❤

[@hellskitchen10036]

Except Nam.

[@zeddy_me]

A magical year, and a magical era from 1964 through to 1973. Then it all got very commercial.

[@jimdep6542]

Agree, I cap it off at 1973 too. Then came disco...blah ! and then came MTV....which cheapened everything as music lost it's integrity.

[@artdonovandesign]

A comprehensive, culturally accurate and historically important episode. Having lived through it, I can certainly attest to this and to the optimism of that great year.

[@Burninhellscrootoob]

I was born in early 67,but can remember back to 69...i didn't get to experience it as it happened,but,i did grow up with the impact...i think it shaped everything to come. Im grateful to the universe for dropping me off here at just the right time ❤

[@Horatio1886build]

I was born in 1959, my family didn’t believe me when I told them I could remember sounds and things that happened in 1961 but I could!

[@13_13k]

I was born in July 1965 in West Los Angeles. The first year of GenX kids. I feel I got the last of the innocent days of The Leave It To Beaver and Ozzy and Harriet America. I had young parents and older siblings, mom had 4 kids me being the last one month after her 25 th birthday. There was always music being played in our house and in the car. We lived a mile from the beach near LAX and Marina Del Rey and we had a house in the mountains. For the first 3 or 4 years of having the weekend house the rule was no television. Not that there was much broadcast up there anyways. But, my dad had his very nice stereo system and we all got to bring our own albums to listen to and we got one hour to play whatever we wanted and no one could take off the record if they didn't like it and if they wanted to go outside they could. So, there were six people between the ages of 37 down to 8 years old playing what they wanted for an hour there was a wide variety of music. I think I liked it the best. I have always been into many different genres of music and those times listening to Big Band and Swing to Jazz and Crooners, from Bluegrass and country to Broadway musicals and classical and contemporary orchestra classics, to Rockabilly and doowop, pop, folk, blues, rock, hard rock, psychedelic, easy folk, Glam, Soul, R&B, funk, hippie California style you name it and someone had an album of it. Good Times

[@stj971]

Same here, love it all.

[@richardventriss3984]

Wow !!! Great documentary, both pictorial and analysis. Really enjoyed it and look forward to your next project.

[@freewheelingideas]

Thank you 🙏

[@PaulHarwood-pf7dz]

In 1965 I was 9 years old. Both my parents worked so during summer break from school a teenage girl from the neighborhood would keep an eye on (baby sit?) me & my younger bro. Those were the days when those watching over kids would say "You've finished breakfast, get out of here, don't come back 'til lunch!". After lunch it was, "Go play outside, don't come back 'til dinner!". I used to beg that girl to let me stay inside so I could hear the r&r & r&b that she constantly cranked on the radio. That was when I became obsessed with a sound that I later learned was a bass guitar. Later still I became quite a good bass guitarist myself. Thank you Carolyn & thank you 1965!!!

[@markmoriarty7388]

I was 3 years older than you in 1965 when I began learning to play bass. Glad you did too. We need more bassists!

[@michaellazzeri2069]

I was 18 y/o in '65, a college freshman, full of energyu, & excitement for all of life. Whatr a time it was to be young ! Motown ruled in '65, in ways we can only fully appreciate now. --------------------------MJL< 77 y/o

[@joeboyd4064]

Same here, born in "47"!!! Still listening to the music!!!

[@Robert-qm5so]

In my opinion the music from 1962 thru 1983 was the best in history (according to my research, I was born in 1992 but I love good music) 🫶

[@MelissaThompson432]

I'm not gonna argue.

[@waynejohanson1083]

I say you have done some great research. You get a A+

[@antoniouy9704]

1956-71 yes..but from 1972 to 1982..a few years were spotty..

[@Robert-qm5so]

@@antoniouy9704 I respect your opinion 👌

[@pattymiller9040]

60s & 80s, my fav music decades!! Then the 70s . I lived through them all. Robert, your music choices are great!! A lot of the young, even those born in this century😄, are liking those ‘oldies’!!

[@26beegee]

I became a teenager in ‘65. My friends and I all had white GoGo boots! Culturally - a great time to be a teen!

[@mikealley8304]

I was 21 and full of love and optimism. Vietnam was looming in the background but was not a big deal yet. Thank you for this documentary I had forgotten many of these songs that came out at the same time. I am thankful to have been alive during the 60s.

[@susanwright9057]

I was exactly 10…. Listened on my transistor radio or I had a radio in my room on my mom had a radio in the kitchen that we all listen to

[@axiomist4488]

EVERYTHING in this video was great ! I loved every bit of it. Carnaby street was the Mecca of fashion and young people from America made the trek to visit the coolest little street in the entire world, even as late as 1970 and later. The music was fantastic . Everything was made just for us (youth) and we reveled in our new world !

[@freewheelingideas]

Thank you so much 🙏 greatly appreciate the positive feedback!

[@philoza1000]

It's sad to see what Carnaby has become, a pathetic shadow of what it once was 😢

[@The_Accuser]

@@freewheelingideas I'd give it a 8/10. Lots of effort and portrayal of the whole spectrum. Here and there I wished it would go deeper

[@normanbaratelli4651]

Nicely done, reminding me what a dead era we live in today in the 21st century. I mean, that year is SO cool, SO iconic and SO groovy about to drive me right outta my head!

[@boris8787]

Who is still watching 6 decades later - *1965 to 2025.*

[@tedecker3792]

I graduated high school in 65. I’m here at 77yo!

[@sammyrothrock6981]

England was such a stylish Era the 60s was so groovy cool 😎

[@bondgabebond4907]

Thank you for this presentation. I was there, 16 years old, enjoying this revolution in music. It was magical. The sounds were different. There were so many groups and bands covering a wide range of music, from folk to hard rock. It was San Francisco music, the British Invasion, the new music for a new generation. I'm sending a link to my granddaughter of this video. She is a fan of the older music, not the trash that call itself music today.

[@freewheelingideas]

Wonderful! And you’re welcome 🙏

[@suek7086]

I was 15 and I agree, it was a very hopeful time..

[@mrbag60]

I heard/remember many of these songs from the AM radio even though i was quite young, only starting kindergarten that Sept. You could feel the energy and enthusiasm in most of these grooves and to this day i still listen to most of them particularly when i can't get no Satisfaction in one form or another.

[@pattymiller9040]

Yes, all on AM radio….WHOT 1330 for me!🙂

[@lorihaun9956]

I was born in 1964. I feel like I grew up with the music. There were also great songs in country songs, too. My parents listened to many different genres of music. ❤

[@tomcusack884]

What was really amusing was British musicians using American-made guitars, basses, and keyboards, Fenders, Gibsons, Rickenbackers among others, taking Black American rhythym and blues, amplifying the sound and slamming in back in our faces. Electrified 3 chord progressions. It was the British Invasion of the 1960's which transformed popular music to some degree from Pop to Rock 'N" Roll. Sure Motown was big business and the Wrecking Crew/West Coast Sound was getting into gear too. Rick Hall and his merry band of Swampers was creating great music in Muscle Shoals too. Chuck Berry in many respects was a major inventor of rock music. The 1960's ushered in a new era of music, FM radio had a big hand in that too. The civil turmoil of the 1960;s provided the angst. Music and to some degree the other arts had their motivation. You know the rest.

[@BenEthridge]

Let us not forget Muddy Waters

[@tomcusack884]

@@BenEthridge The list of great Black American blues artists is a mile long. B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Bo Diddly, many many many others. If you include jazz/country blues, the list is 2 miles long.

[@stj971]

I had a friend who managed a radio station and was involved in playing rock on FM which was just beginning.

[@stj971]

​@@tomcusack884 And let's also not forget John May all and Peter Green who were great bluesmen. 👍

[@mphrdldn]

I adored women’s fashion in the mid-‘60s, the mod era. I learned how to sew in 8th grade and was constantly sewing dresses and pantsuits through 1971.

[@richardlitt7368]

do you still sew clothing ?

[@mphrdldn]

@@richardlitt7368No, I do not, sadly.

[@richardlitt7368]

@@mphrdldn thanks for the reply i was looking for someone who lived thru that decade to make something for a photograph . thanks for your reply

[@laurachristianson1688]

Me too I’ve tried to take it up again through the decades but good fabric is so expensive and hard to find,, and as we grow older being “fashionable “ gets relegated to the odd date night.

[@pattymiller9040]

Yes! Those 60s into 70s years gave the world the best fashions! I also had an interest in sewing, of which I did some back then , but much more after I had a few children.

[@hots7134]

Ah the 60's, some of the best years of my life. My first concert, The Beatles. My second concert, Herman's Hermits. I made pretty good wages at that time, $1.67an hour. No worries, No responsibilities. Gee, do I wish I could go back in time some days. Music will never be the same. I'm so glad I lived through this time in my life. Took my drivers test in a 1959 Ford Fairlane galaxy 500. It was a convertible with a continental kit on the back. Long car to say the least. Listened to this music on my transistor radio or my Hi Fi. I do admit I like my stereo much better now. I'm so glad all of this music is still accessible on my computer, so I can still listen to it when ever I want. Those were the days my friend, I thought they'd never end.

[@johnwarner4809]

It all started with The Beatles release of "Love Me Do" in January of 1964, followed by appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in February of 1964. Things ramped up really fast after that.

[@xxxxxxx6616]

Love me do was realeased 5th oct 1962

[@pommac10]

And after Love Me Do in ’63 they released She Loves You (yea yea yea) and Europe got all crazy !!

[@peterlagroove6555]

@@xxxxxxx6616 you right. Imagine it took almost two years before the American record companies accepted the song....real American red necks

[@danielacarlotti5360]

1965-1975: the best years for music according to me

[@franksherman1774]

THANK YOU! ...so glad I kept reading the comments. Not that anyone specifically asked but...the years 1965-1975 had it all!

[@marvinmartin4692]

I agree!

[@MrSkinnn]

You know, I can't argue with that‼I was 13 in '65. I also watched the Ed Sullivan show the night the Beatles were on for the 1st time. Dad looked at me and asked "Do you like that?" ... Uh, yeah.

[@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl]

I would extend them to 1985 at least. I wouldn't want to see groups like ELO, Dire Straits, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Kraftwerk, The Police, Scorpions, Depeche Mode, Ultravox, The Nits, The Waterboys and many, many others being excluded. Groups and musicians like the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Genesis, FleetwoodMac, Moody Blues, Chicago, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel would even be continously successful during both decades and beyond. And even after 1985 amazing music was made by eg. U2, Marillion, The Hooters, Stephan Eicher, Calexico, The Black Keys, Run DMC, The Shins, The Jezabels, ...

[@danielacarlotti5360]

@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl ok, my favorite musician is Peter Gabriel but 1965-1975 it's better for me

[@MarkMiller-i8q]

So much going on in 1965. Rubber Soul was released. Bob Dylan plugged in at Newport. The Beatles played at Shea Stadium, then before the biggest audience ever for a rock concert. Mod became all the rage, and London became the hippest city in Western culture. Satisfaction and Like A Rolling Stone debuted around the same time and became two of the greatest rock songs of all time.

[@freewheelingideas]

✌️

[@kenchristie9214]

Satisfaction and Like A Rolling Stone were the greatest songs only if you believe that crap magazine, Rolling Stone. I Feel Fine didn't make the top 500, whilst a lot a garbage did.

[@MarkMiller-i8q]

@@kenchristie9214 Arbiters of taste exist for everything, from art to fashion to music and beyond. You're right, Rolling Stone Magazine lists Satisfaction and Like A Rolling Stone at the top or near the top of the greatest rock songs ever written. That doesn't diminish one's personal opinion. With the web and You Tube, we have many more influencers than "bibles' of taste like Rolling Stone Magazine and Women's Wear Daily.

[@kenchristie9214]

@@MarkMiller-i8q Is just mere coincidence that Like A Rolling Stone and a song by The Rolling Stones are the two greatest songs according to Rolling Stone Magazine.

[@MrVictor1196]

Excellent documentary.

[@freewheelingideas]

Thank you 🙏

[@raelshodges8949]

I was born in March of 65 .. no wonder I love music .. my bff Rhonda was born in June, I wonder where her mum got her name lol.. born in 65, grew up in the 60's & 70's, lived the 80's .. couldn't ask for a better soundtrack

[@kenroberts2055]

Excellent synopsis of the most magical year of my life. And I don’t think I was alone in feeling that way. And it all came on like the presentation; rapid fire. Bam, bam, bam; in such a way that only the young could sort it all out. M-m-m-my generation.

[@freewheelingideas]

Thank you 🙏 ✌️

[@AgentPepsi1]

Mary Quant passed last year. I have two original Mary Quant mini-dresses (one from 1966, the other from 1968). I would so love to travel to that era to experience those times. Please do some other videos in this style, highlighting a specific year. 😊

[@freewheelingideas]

Definitely will 👍

[@manoftheworld1000]

No doubt, we need a time machine, Scotty must beam us straight to 1965😉!

[@AgentPepsi1]

@@manoftheworld1000 YES!!!

[@AgentPepsi1]

@@freewheelingideas

[@manoftheworld1000]

@@AgentPepsi1 Choo! Choo! Choo!😃

[@lenwest7734]

WTF… How can you dedicate an entire hour to the hits of 1965, and not mention ~Sounds Of Silence~ From Simon & Garfunkel! It was a HUGE hit with massive radio play all summer long! I remember well! It was that tune plus the Byrds “Tambourine Man” that ushered in Folk Rock!

[@glennhopkins2643]

There will never be another Beatles.

[@newwavepop]

You named a WHOLE hell of a lot of amazing timeless songs, i do not even know where to begin. i will just say Thems version of Baby Pleas Dont Go is one of the greatest rock performances ever recorded.

[@louisea6109]

Thank you for this, an epic time in our lifes. Such a special time music/fashion wise 🎼

[@Notes-From-Underground66]

I think that the Yardbirds should have been given more time to discuss what there significance was to rock and roll. As a band, they shifted the attention on the lead singer to the attention on to the lead guitarist! This had a major impact on many of the great rock bands of the 1970’s.

[@donnahilton471]

But Keith Relf was my crush!

[@Notes-From-Underground66]

@@donnahilton471 Keith never got the recognition that he deserved. He was a great lead vocalist. In any other band he would have been the center of attention. He, unfortunately, was in the Yardbirds who by an unbelievable stroke of luck had 3 of the greatest guitarists of all time in it. RIP Keith Relf; RIP Jeff Beck; RIP Anthony “Top” Topham

[@donnahilton471]

@@Notes-From-Underground66 💖

[@jeffreyhart4636]

You know there was a brief period where the Yardbirds had Clapton and Beck on guitars with Page on bass. Yow!

[@Notes-From-Underground66]

@@jeffreyhart4636 That is absolutely false. There was no overlap between the tenure of Eric and Jeff. If there had been, it has not be documented in any of the numerous biographies of Eric or Jeff. Jeff and Eric would have mentioned it if there was a period of overlap. Only Jeff and Jimmy spent time together in the yardbirds. First with Jimmy on bass and then with Jeff and Jimmy on co-lead/rhythm guitars. I have been following all three guitarists for the last 5 1/2 decades. NEVER HAPPENED….. Period!!!

[@cheriehill8697]

WOW! I loved this segment!! The mid-60's was "THE PLACE" to be!!!!!

[@freewheelingideas]

@@cheriehill8697 awesome so glad to hear!! Indeed it was ✌️

[@manoftheworld1000]

You're so spot-on! - In 1965 I was a dumb little schoolboy watching a movie in a cinema. The introductory programme contained a short report about the Beatles. As an obedient son of my parents I hated those "long-haired apes" as my old man used to say. The Fab Four played "Help" - and that was it😉, I was hooked forever! Not only music changed that year, I did too🙂😜!

[@manoftheworld1000]

Wanna know when I ceased to be a teenage boy? The day I heard Arthur Brown's "Fire"😜!

[@larrypower8659]

It’s AI, a bot. Don’t get bent out of shape about it, even though humanity suffers for it.

[@ClaireTarpey-kt8fl]

I'm 60, born in 64...my father was so alarmed that I liked John Lennon...he's such a Communist...how dare he disagree with our government...that was the worst thing my father could say about anyone! Oh, those go-go boots! Nancy Sinatras These Boots Were Made for Walkin...I was in 1st grade in 70 & my friends & I were just the thing walking into school in them; my mother bought me a Who album for my 5th birthday, in 69

[@manoftheworld1000]

@@ClaireTarpey-kt8fl Oh wow, you were lucky to have a mum like her! To be "allowed" to listen to the Who at 5, all right! My first album was John Mayall's "Crusade". I got it from a cute girl who had a little crush on me😉.

[@ClaireTarpey-kt8fl]

@@manoftheworld1000 My mum was AMAZING!!! She graduated from a very well known high school in New York City named the Bronx School of Science and this is a specialized high school! You have to pass an extremely difficult test just to be able to go there! If you are just of average intelligence or if science isn't your best subject, you shouldn't waste your time trying to get in that school. I wouldn't have a bats chance in hell of even getting in there & my brain would be fried like I'd been in a nuclear war! She breezed through that school. Her granddaughters take after her. One of them, my daughter, works at NASA doing Trigonometry, something about putting satellites on Mars?!!? Oh Good God, is my daughter going to get stationed up there???!!! Valen, (pronounced Vay-Lynn), has been everywhere on this planet already which is what happens when you're in the military! I never know what to say when someone asks me where my kids are although my boys are easier to find. They're not in the military, but they're quite fond of large blossomed, blonde cheerleaders, so I just have to locate a football game with cheerleaders that are blonde and well endowed. My mom always said boys were easier to raise; see how smart she was?! I don't think I will ever have grandkids myself though. My daughter can't stay in one place long enough & my boys...I just thought I might get a grandkid or several for that matter if my boys don't use birth control. I'm hoping they remember the lessons their fathers taught them. Valen & Christopher are by my 2nd husband and Justin is by my last husband . The funny thing is that my boys look almost exactly alike and they have different fathers!!! You have to look closely at them to be able to tell the difference which is bizarre. Most ppl can't tell them apart from each other!!! The only ppl that can are me, their fathers, my best friend & her husband!!!

[@glennstenbergkvist5971]

Magnificent program, with organisation and production elements of the highest order!

[@freewheelingideas]

Thank you 🙏

[@Earthles77]

I was seventeen in a town, just south of Liverpool, in the North of England. Everyone I knew was in a band, me included. Every day I would awake with the knowledge that some new, different, seminal would happen that day… something never seen, or heard, or felt before… or so it seemed to me. It was a heady, magical and sensually captivating time, that provided a paradigm shift in world youth culture… and so seeded everything that followed, forever. Almost sixty years later, just saying those band names out loud sends a thrill, that reaches to the end of my shoulder-length, Sixties haircut. And why do I still grow my hair song long, you ask? Because I can!

[@owensclock]

I turned 18 in 1965. I think we just took what we were hearing on the radio, saw what was happening musically on TV and read about in magazines as it came. And there was so much great music that year. But was 1965 the year that changed music forever, or was it 1966 or 1967 for that matter, or why not 1964? It could have been any year in the 60s after 1964. It was such an exciting time!~

[@jamesgray9950]

Hard to believe that the Stone's I can't get no satisfaction, the Who's My Generation, The Beatles' Yesterday and Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone all came out in the fall of 1965. Incredible.

[@freewheelingideas]

Game changers..

[@msaintpc]

I'm from Laguna Beach and proud to say I was there and a part of it.

[@nbenefiel]

I loved the sixties. The music, the freedom to wear what you wanted. I was into the “ rich hippie” look. I would buy the leftovers of upholstery fabric on sale and make velvet vests, tapestry bell bottoms. I’d make white blouses with lace and ribbon insertion. I had hair down to my waist. I wore this stuff to some of the best concerts ever.

[@terryarmstrong8598]

I turned six that summer. I asked for, and received, my first transistor radio for my birthday. We lived in the Dallas radio market. What a great time to be a kid.

[@windellchapman8397]

1965 was one of the BEST YEARS EVER in Music 🤗

[@mr.milehi9883]

I don't know how I missed your channel. You put a lot into your historic recount of music history with lots of references too. Can't wait to watch more.

[@freewheelingideas]

Thank you 🙏

[@lancelotkamaka2563]

Hey man! This has got to be one of the best stuff I heard about the changing landscape of the music I grew up with. I really want more of this. It's so sad how today's music has no impact on me. So sad. Keep up the great work.

[@freewheelingideas]

Thank you so much 🙏 Definitely will be doing more!

[@cloudshe]

thank you for that vivid description of an incredible year of musical genius

[@hookalakah]

It was a great time to grow up. I wouldn't change a thing about it.

[@tonycollazorappo]

In 1965 I was 4 years old 😊. I like the music from the 60s. Wish I could go back in time ✌🏻🙂☮️

[@eileenrobinson8014]

So lucky to be 14 in 1964, those were the days my friend!

[@pattymiller9040]

We thought they’d never end……🎶🎼

[@vonrecht1236]

I was 16 in 65 and living in SA, where u could catch the hit parade on Springbok Radio (RIP)...great times...

[@jaddison1112]

Interesting video. August 1965 was the last time my family camped happily in Quaking Aspen campground way up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I left Jr. High for High School. It was really the boundary from my adolescence to my advanced teenage years. It was the beginning of disastrous decades for many of us who lost our innocence. Lost our belief in how the world used to work and how cruel and unfair it actually is. By the end of 1965, it was like the first morning awakening into a gathering nightmare which only got worse as time went on. By the time 1968 rolled around, the year I graduated High School and headed to university, my life was defined for decades to come. The era destroyed me, mentally and spiritually. But, still here 60 years later.

[@grahamnewton4381]

I don’t have to imagine it as I was there and if you lived through the 60s society today seems manufactured and predictable by comparison. So much in the way society functions pales by comparison

[@christownsend-q3s]

Me too, the freedom to move around in London was phenomenal.As a teenage girl I felt safe travelling alone on the Tube to go 'up West' to see all the bands. It's hard to describe the feeling, but everything seemed incredibly exciting, from the clothes we wore (Biba was my favourite) to the music, and drinking wasn't a huge part of the culture, it was enough to be young and alive. Friends experimented with soft drugs occasionally, but I don't think there was pressure to try it and it wasn't as freely available as now. Maybe my experience was different to some, but it was definitely a great time to be young and alive.

[@davidmaslow2931]

Totally agree !

[@hellskitchen10036]

Except for Nam!

[@kopynd1]

go on rub it in, am depressed enough the way the government killed the uk and bringing all these beautiful memories back makes me more depressed, if you were never there you wouldn't understand how beautiful it was, we had everything even though we had nothing, happiness

[@freewheelingideas]

One of the greatest human tragedies to ever take place is the death of the British culture that gave the world so much creativity.

[@BenEthridge]

​@@freewheelingideas; It seems to be catching on all over the world tonight

[@TraciShirah]

The Government of the UK is ruining its cultures by allowing run-away uncontrolled immigration.

[@philoza1000]

'We had everything but we had nothing.' So true 😢

[@stj971]

I was in London in 72 and it was fabulous. I had a friend who had a store on the King's Road. Chelsea was awesome!

[@songwolf108]

Good documentary…we loved the Beatles at my school ,you could feel the excitement in the air cuz American culture was changing. The British Invasion brought American Blues back to us & there’s a renewed interest in our music, all kinds of music & how cool is that?! Wonder if they have another documentary , does anyone remember the psychedelic period??

[@elbiyoo]

I got to Britain in 1967, age 21/22, and hitchhiked from London to Liverpool with a friend, and we toured The Cavern, where ‘the Beatles played 262 times.’ Or maybe it was 292 times. But it was too late. We missed it by 2 years.

[@aucourant9998]

Excellent. Thank you. You really caught the spirit of the times.

[@freewheelingideas]

Thank you!! glad you enjoyed it🙏

[@Yes_Piano]

The reason that 1965 Changed Music Forever is because I was born on that year🤩 thanks for the amazing and interesting video.

[@johnworthington8360]

I was 5 in 65 and still grooving the Rolling Stones....

[@squatch545]

Same. I was born in March 1960

[@questionauthority7377]

@@squatch545no one cares

[@squatch545]

@@questionauthority7377 As if you speak for everyone. lol

[@lyndoncmp5751]

I'd say 1969 tops 1965. The end of 1969 had Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and Rolling Stones taking up the top three albums positions. That was the peak of rock.

[@jillybe1873]

That's what he's saying: 64 was the year it changed

[@kenchristie9214]

1967 was the year that had the greatest impact on popular music. Whilst Pet Sounds was the catalyst, it was Sgt. Pepper's that ushered in the psychaedelic era. Johnny Rivers - Summer Rain, Traffic - Heaven Is In Your Mind, Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin, Cream - White Room, The Hombres - Let It Out, just to name a few. My favourite year for music and in general was 1971.

[@esthergarcia1373]

Interesting documentary of the ever changing folk and rock scene along with the many fashion trends that followed the bands and music scenes❣❤🙏🎸🎼🎹🪈🪘🥁🌟