Makeba Sings! is the fifth album by Miriam Makeba, released by RCA Victor in 1965. The album charted at number 74 in the US album chart

"..Released the same year as the Grammy-winning An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba, Makeba Sings finds the bold singer in a relatively straightforward context, delivering heartwarming tunes with fluttering tropical arrangements, the kind typically reserved for Disney scores. What peels this LP away from the bland conventions of retro calypso and exotica is Makeba’s searing voice, which spans at least three languages in 35 minutes and imbues captivating tracks like “Cameroon” and “Kilimanjaro” with an almost startling intensity..."

Peter Holslin | 26 November 2008

https://cokemachineglow.com/records/miriammakeba-makebasings-1965/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXBAbslvSas&list=RDRXBAbslvSas&start_radio=1

#MiriamMakeba #mamaafrica #antiapartheid #1965inmusic

Then Was Then – Now Is Now! is a 1965 album by Peggy Lee.

A particular highlight is the version of I Go To Sleep a Kinks song which had not been released on 1965.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixAkS3k78XM&list=OLAK5uy_m9TnW6HkMCgxhjWF18pXQT15Zi4KTB7fw

#peggylee #vocaljazz #thekinks #raydavies #igotosleep #1965inmusic #sidfeller

Today Is the Highway Review by Richie Unterberger

Andersen's debut album presented him playing in a folkie style that was just starting to become passé upon its release in 1965. It's an inoffensive set of originals (except for a cover of "Baby Please Don't Go") in the early-'60s Greenwich Village style, accompanied only by his own guitar and harmonica (and, on two songs, by Debby Green on second guitar). Whether by coincidence or intention, or some combination thereof, it's highly reminiscent in spots of early Bob Dylan, although Andersen is gentler and more subdued. At times it especially recalls the Freewheelin'-era Dylan, or at least Dylan on that album's most reflective and low-key cuts, such as "Girl from the North Country." Andersen fills a lot of these early compositions with imagery of bumming around the country (hence the title "today is the highway"), adding some love songs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubhHOEdXVmU&list=RDubhHOEdXVmU&start_radio=1

#ericanderson #greenwichvillage #folk #singersongwriter #1965inmusic

Brasil '65 by The Sergio Mendes Trio* Introducing Wanda De Sah* With Rosinha De Valenca. released on Capitol in 1965.

Bossa Nova soothing my ears and mind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNnV9FEWQio&list=RDeNnV9FEWQio&start_radio=1

#SérgioMendes #WandaDeSah #RosinhaDeValenca #brazilianmusic #bossanova #1965inmusic

Song for My Father is a 1965 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, released on the Blue Note label in 1965. The album was inspired by a trip that Silver had made to Brazil. The cover artwork features a photograph of Silver's father, John Tavares Silver, to whom the title composition was dedicated. "My mother was of Irish and Negro descent, my father of Portuguese origin," Silver recalls in the liner notes: "He was born on the island of Maio, one of the Cape Verde Islands."

AllMusic reviewer Steve Huey praised the album:

One of Blue Note's greatest mainstream hard bop dates, Song for My Father is Horace Silver's signature LP and the peak of a discography already studded with classics...it hangs together remarkably well, and Silver's writing is at his tightest and catchiest.

The album was identified by Scott Yanow in his AllMusic essay "Hard Bop" as one of the 17 Essential Hard Bop recordings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWeXOm49kE0

#horacesilver #hardbop #bluenote #joehenderson #1965inmusic #jazz

Comin' Through Review by Ron Wynn

The O'Jays were a fledgling five-member outfit when they issued their debut album in 1965. They generated a little attention with the dance/novelty tune "Do the Wiggle," and also issued a pair of good ballads in "Lonely Drifter" and "Lipstick Traces." None of these songs were as masterfully produced or arranged as the epic Gamble/Huff material, but it did reveal the potential they had for R&B stardom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDA51Pwimns&list=PLtgkmEKX2MVOVZc7HXah8BzY6XAOl1S2a&index=7

#TheOJays #soul #1965inmusic #phillysoul

Travelin' Light is a 1965 studio album by Shirley Horn.

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album four stars and said that "[T]he main star throughout is Horn. Not all of the material is equally strong and none of the very concise dozen performances clocks in at even three minutes, so this is not an essential session. But Shirley Horn fans and completists will want the generally enjoyable vocal date." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5im1Ytr0J0I&list=OLAK5uy_lU1USy4AuhcwYGOSAg5R1cLe9u26YBR9k&index=1

#shirleyhorn #vocaljazz #kennyburrell #1965inmusic

John Renbourn Review by Chris Nickson

John Renbourn's famous phrase was that "I started out trying to play like Big Bill Broonzy, and I'm still trying."..But as a player, Renbourn had already very much developed into his own man, imaginative and complete in technique ...Also in evidence is his love of early music, such as "Song," whose lyrics come from a John Donne poem, or his own "Plainsong." He'd already met up with fellow guitar player Bert Jansch, with whom he'd record and form Pentangle, and together they wrote "Noah and Rabbit." While hardly the greatest singer, there's an appealingly earnest quality to his voice, although he sounds a little strained on a cover of the folk classic "Blues Run the Game" (another bonus cut on the reissue). As debuts go, you'd be hard pressed to find anything much better in the folk cauldron that was London in the mid-'60s. The genesis of a master.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIlgb0CTCnU&list=PLTpgOVnsRax3-KB0UT7YUAF3YGN_9o9k-&index=2

#johnrenbourn #folkmusic #debutLP #1965inmusic

Mr. Tambourine Man is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Byrds, released on June 21, 1965, by Columbia Records. The album is characterized by the Byrds' signature sound of Jim McGuinn's 12-string Rickenbacker guitar and the band's complex harmony singing. The material on the album consists of cover versions of folk songs, primarily composed by Bob Dylan, and originals written or co-written by singer Gene Clark...

The album's distinctive front cover fisheye lens photograph of the band was taken by Barry Feinstein at the bird sanctuary in Griffith Park, Los Angeles...

...In its July 1965 issue, Time magazine praised the album, stating: "To make folk music the music of today's folk, this quintet has blended Beatle beats with Lead Belly laments, created a halfway school of folk-rock that scores at the cash box if not with the folk purists." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE3b68_AUoc

#thebyrds #folkrock #bobdylan #rogermcguinn #1965inmusic #geneclark

It Don't Bother Me is the second album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in November 1965.

It Don't Bother Me Review by Richie Unterberger

Basically an extension of his 1965 debut, Bert Jansch's second album is perhaps a bit lighter in mood and doesn't boast quite as strong material, although it's nearly in the same league. Includes one of his most explicitly political songs ("Anti-Apartheid"), his first recording with John Renbourn ("Lucky Thirteen," a Renbourn original), and his first use of banjo on record ("900 Miles").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABW1X6kkjg0

#bertjansch #johnrenbourn #royharper #antiapartheid #1965inmusic #scottishfolk

Ellington '65 is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded in 1964 and released on the Reprise label in 1965.[1] The album features recordings of popular tunes arranged by Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, a formula that was revisited on Ellington '66 (1966). - Wikipedia

Those popular tunes include Dylan's Blowin' In The Wind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut8vcZBn16k

#dukeellington #bobdylan #blowin_in_the_wind #bigbandjazz #jazz #1965inmusic

Of Course, Of Course is the second album by jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd released on the Columbia label featuring performances by Lloyd with Gábor Szabó, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow and Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and states "Whether on tenor or flute, Lloyd was quickly coming into his own as an original voice, and this underrated set is a minor classic".

#charleslloyd #GáborSzabó #tonywilliams #roncarter #jazz #1965inmusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbsOGE5Se2M&list=PLx_OwX8qVcouPJgE9lWhAkrtIImEjID5y&index=1

The Pretty Things is the self-titled debut album by the English rock band Pretty Things. Released in 1965 in alternate track listings in the United Kingdom and United States, the album demonstrated the band's raw, loud sound, influenced by American rock and roll musician Bo Diddley.
Recording

..30 minutes into the first recording session, the original producer, Jack Baverstock, the head of the label, quit over the band's behavior and alcoholism...

The band's playing was noted for being exceptionally loud for the time period, with their sound on "Road Runner" being described as being "about as raw and loud as British rock & roll ever got up to that time" by AllMusic. The final three minutes of "Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut" is composed of feedback and distortion held together by a repeated bass guitar rhythm; the use of such elements was considered unusual for the time. - Wikipedia

#theprettythings #garagerock #1965inmusic #bodiddley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XWtgoTHr3I