Sunday 1st August 1965

A big leap from #17 to #5 for Roy Orbison, but the single stalled at #23 in the Nationals. '(Say) You're My Girl' is a rock 'n' roll version of the Italian classic, 'Santa Lucia'.

Last	This
Week	Week
1	1	Help!	Beatles
3	2	We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place	Animals
2	3	You've Got Your Troubles	Fortunes
10	4	Catch Us If You Can	Dave Clark Five
17	5	(Say) You're My Girl	Roy Orbison
6	6	He's Got No Love	Searchers
20	7	Summer Nights	Marianne Faithfull
19	8	I Want Candy	Brian Poole & the Tremeloes
15	9	I Can't Help Myself	Four Tops
14	10	Everyone's Gone To The Moon	Jonathan King
23	11	Too Many Rivers	Brenda Lee
16	12	Cry To Me	Pretty Things
4	13	There But For Fortune	Joan Baez
24	14	That's The Way	Honeycombs
5	15	With These Hands	Tom Jones
40	16	Like We Used To Be	Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames
7	17	In Thoughts Of You	Billy Fury
9	18	Mr Tambourine Man	Byrds
8	19	Tossing And Turning	Ivy League
11	20	Heart Full Of Soul	Yardbirds
13	21	Let The Water Run Down	P J Proby
39	22	Zorba's Dance	Marcello Minerbi
30	23	Shakin' All Over	Guess Who
32	24	Unchained Melody	Righteous Brothers
–	25	All I Really Want To Do	Byrds / Cher
18	26	Sunshine Lollipops And Rainbows	Lesley Gore
–	27	Don't Make My Baby Blue	Shadows
36	28	Baby Never Say Goodbye	Bo Street Runners
29	29	Show Me Around	Mike Hurst
–	30	See My Friend	Kinks
22	31	Seventh Son	Johnny Rivers
21	32	Woolly Bully	Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
–	33	The Secret Of My Success	Chantelles
12	34	In The Middle Of Nowhere	Dusty Springfield
–	35	Day By Day	Julie Rogers
26	36	Leave A Little Love	Lulu
25	37	The One In The Middle (EP)	Manfred Mann
28	38	She's About A Mover	Sir Douglas Quintet
–	39	Darlin' Jill	Hugo Montenegro Orchestra
33	39	A Walk In The Black Forest	Horst Jankowski
–	40	Make It Easy On Yourself	Walker Brothers

Alan Field adds a few Fab notes:

The Kinks' record at #30 is called "See My Friend" (singular) according to all the usual sources – Guinness, Tony Jasper's Top Twenty Book, the Record Collector Rare Record Price Guide, and (last and definitely least) my own recollection! Many later Kinks' hits CDs now list it as "See My Friends" (plural), which is probably what Ray Davies sings on the record.

The Chantelles' new entry at #33 is something of a "sleeper", certainly in Big L terms – it was a climber four weeks earlier.

This chart sees the start of a 7-week period where Brian Long has updated or corrected the Fab 40 lists he originally published in The London Sound. Sharp-eyed readers will spot the inclusion of Cher's version of All I Really Want To Do, alongside the Byrds' version throughout its chart run. And hold on to your hats, there's a few switched chart placings and a handful of additional climbers all a-coming in September!

And finally.... I think I'm right in saying this week's #39 is the first instance of two unrelated records sharing a chart position on the Fab 40. It became common practice later on, and there were always occasions when two versions of the same song were bracketed together, but I think Hugo Montenegro and Horst Jankowski joined forces to make Fab 40 history on 1st August 1965 as Darlin' Jill went for A Walk In The Black Forest!

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