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{{Infobox song
| name       = '65 Love Affair
| cover      =
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Paul Davis (singer)|Paul Davis]]
| album      = [[Cool Night]]
| B-side     = We're Still Together
| released   = February 1982
| format     =
| recorded   = 1981
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Pop rock]], [[New wave music|new wave]]
| length     = 3:43
| label      = [[Arista Records|Arista]]
| writer     = [[Paul Davis (singer)|Paul Davis]]
| producer   = [[Ed Seay]] and Paul Davis
| prev_title = [[Cool Night (song)|Cool Night]]
| prev_year  = 1981
| next_title = [[Love or Let Me Be Lonely#Paul Davis version|Love or Let Me Be Lonely]]
| next_year  = 1982
| misc       = {{External music video|header=Audio|{{YouTube|Dz24kKWGlT8|"'65 Love Affair"}}}}
}}

"'''<nowiki>'65 Love Affair</nowiki>'''" is a song performed by [[Paul Davis (singer)|Paul Davis]] on his album ''[[Cool Night]]''. 

==Background==
This song marked Davis's second single release upon his departure from [[Bang Records]] to [[Arista Records|Arista]], the first being "[[Cool Night (song)|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.

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 (Paul Davis song)|I Go Crazy]]" ranked second). 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.

==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]].<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/65-Love-Affair/dp/B00K6N67G2 Amazon Video - '65 Love Affair]</ref><ref>[http://www.mtvbase.com/music/artists/paul-davis/o4v5rr/video/65-Love-Affair/mqc8jn  MTV Base - '65 Love Affair]</ref>

==Chart performance==
Released in 1982, "'65 Love Affair" hit #6 for two weeks on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] in May 1982. It spent 20 weeks on the chart, and on the [[Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1982|''Billboard'' Year-End Hot 100]] chart, it placed at #39, and on ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cashbox's]]'' chart at #60.
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===Weekly charts===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Chart (1982)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|Australian ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name="Kent">{{cite book |last=Kent |first=David |author-link=David Kent (historian) |title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 |year=1993 |publisher=Australian Chart Book |isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>
|align="center"|71
|-
|Canadian ''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'' Top Singles
|align="center"|11
|-
|Canada ''RPM'' Adult Contemporary<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6485&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6485.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6485|title=Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada |website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |date=1982-05-29 |accessdate=2019-09-19}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|4
|-
|{{singlechart|Ireland2|28|song=65 Love Affair|accessdate=September 19, 2019}}
|-
|New Zealand Singles Chart
|align="center"|13
|-
|US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref>{{cite book |title=  Joel Whitburn’s Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012 |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2013 |publisher=Record Research |page=220}}</ref>
|align="center"|6
|-
|US ''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary<ref>{{cite book |title= Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2002 |publisher=Record Research |page=72}}</ref>
|align="center"|5
|-
|US [[Cashbox (magazine)|''Cash Box'']] Top 100<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19820501.html |title=Cash Box Top 100 Singles – Week ending May 1, 1982 |accessdate=2017-10-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921090852/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19820501.html |archivedate=21 September 2012 }}. [[Cashbox (magazine)|''Cash Box'' magazine]].</ref>
|align="center"|10
|}
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===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!align="left"|Chart (1982)
! style="text-align:center;"|Rank
|-
|Canada<ref>{{cite web |url=https://musiccanada.wordpress.com/2015/10/03/top-100-singles-of-1982-in-canada/ |title=Top 100 Singles of 1982 in Canada |website=Canadian Music Blog |date=3 October 2015 |accessdate=January 26, 2018}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|96
|-
|US ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1982.htm |title=Top 100 Hits of 1982/Top 100 Songs of 1982 |website=Music Outfitters |accessdate=September 16, 2017}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|39
|-
|US ''Cash Box'' <ref>{{cite web |url=http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1982YESP.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921090617/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1982YESP.html |website=Cash Box |title=Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles |date=December 31, 1982 |archivedate=September 21, 2012 |accessdate=September 16, 2017}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|60
|}
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==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{MetroLyrics song|paul-davis|65-love-affair}}<!-- Licensed lyrics provider -->

{{Paul Davis}}

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