4BK Top 10 September 1965

This is from the Telegraph September 29th 1965(60 Years ago) and this was the 4BK Top 10 with We Five at number 1 with their version of the Ian and Sylvia song You Were On My Mind, The Righteous Brothers at number 2 with their version of the Todd Duncan song Unchained Melody which it be reissued 25 years later in 1990 for the movie Ghost as it would be a hit again, Sonny and Cher at number 3 with I Got You Babe, Horst Jankowski at number 4 with A Walk In The Black Forest, The Fortunes at number 5 with the song written bt Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway You've Got Your Trouble, the boy from Moorooka Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs at number 6 with their version of the Platters song Twilight Time, Brendan Bowyer at number 7 with I Ran All The Way Home, Billy Joe Royal at number 8 with Down In The Boomdocks, The Animals at number 9 with the song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil We've Gotta Get Out of This Place and Manfred Mann at number 10 with their version of the Bob Dylan song With God On Our Side.

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