'65 Love Affair

February 2009 January 2025 65 Love Affair single Paul Davis Cool Night We're Still Together February 1982 1981 Pop rock 3:43 Arista Paul Davis Ed Seay and Paul Davis Cool Night 1981 Love or Let Me Be Lonely 1982 Audio Dz24kKWGlT8 "65 Love Affair" "65 Love Affair" is a song written and performed by Paul Davis on his album Cool Night. Background This song marked Davis's second single release upon his departure from Bang Records to Arista, the first being "Cool Night". The style of "65 Love Affair" was reminiscent of such blue-eyed soul groups as Hall & Oates, a vein that Davis had not explored before. Davis had originally titled the song "'55 Love Affair", but Arista felt that some modernization was needed to target an audience whose teenage years had occurred in the 1960s, including Davis himself. As Arista pointed out, Davis was only 7 years old in 1955, too young for a "love affair", but was 17 years old in 1965, perfect for the song. However, even with the title change, the song highlighted many aspects of 1950s youth culture, including carhops, drive-ins and doo-wop. Davis's previous hits had been country-oriented or ballads. The format change to pop proved to be quite marketable. "65 Love Affair" and "Cool Night", which were recorded at the same time, ranked first and third in terms of his Hot 100 peaks ("I Go Crazy" ranked second). Davis hated the final song, calling it "bubblegum" and "a sellout." In spite of this popular success, Davis was so disgusted with the commercialized result that he opted out of his contract with Arista and signed with Razor & Tie Record Company, a label on which Davis never charted on the Hot 100, before he left the music business for good in 1988. Music video The music video is composed entirely of news archives from the year 1965, including footage of then US President Lyndon Johnson, the Vietnam War, and the Watts riots. https://www.amazon.com/65-Love-Affair/dp/B00K6N67G2 amazon.com '65 Love Affair http://www.mtvbase.com/music/artists/paul-davis/o4v5rr/video/65-Love-Affair/mqc8jn '65 Love Affair mtvbase.com 2016-05-17 2016-06-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20160611123800/http://www.mtvbase.com/music/artists/paul-davis/o4v5rr/video/65-Love-Affair/mqc8jn dead Chart performance Released in 1982, "65 Love Affair" hit #6 for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1982. It spent 20 weeks on the chart, and on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 chart, it placed at #39, and on Cashbox's chart at #60. 65% Weekly charts Chart (1982)PeakpositionAustralian (Kent Music Report)Kent David David Kent (historian) Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 1993 Australian Chart Book 0-646-11917-671Canadian RPM Top Singles11Canada RPM Adult Contemporaryhttps://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?IdNumber=9407&app=rpm Item Display RPM collectionscanada.gc.ca 1982-05-29 2019-09-194Ireland2 28 65 Love Affair September 19, 2019New Zealand Singles Chart13Poland LP3 18US Billboard Hot 100 Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012 Whitburn Joel Joel Whitburn 2013 Record Research 2206US Billboard Adult Contemporary Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001 Whitburn Joel 2002 Record Research 725US Cash Box Top 100http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19820501.html Cash Box Top 100 Singles – Week ending May 1, 1982 2017-10-29 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120921090852/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19820501.html 21 September 2012 . Cash Box magazine.10 Year-end charts Chart (1982)RankCanadahttps://musiccanada.wordpress.com/2015/10/03/top-100-singles-of-1982-in-canada/ Top 100 Singles of 1982 in Canada Canadian Music Blog 3 October 2015 January 26, 201896US Billboard Hot 100http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1982.htm Top 100 Hits of 1982/Top 100 Songs of 1982 Music Outfitters September 16, 2017 September 16, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170916121318/http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1982.htm dead 39US Cash Box http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1982YESP.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120921090617/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1982YESP.html Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles December 31, 1982 September 21, 2012 September 16, 201760 References Category:1981 songs Category:1982 singles Category:Paul Davis (singer) songs Category:Music published by MPL Music Publishing Category:Arista Records singles Category:Songs about nostalgia