The Sound of 65 is the debut album by rhythm and blues/jazz group The Graham Bond Organisation, featuring its best-known line-up of Graham Bond (vocals, alto saxophone, Hammond B-3 organ and Mellotron), Jack Bruce (vocals, acoustic and electric basses, harmonica), Dick Heckstall-Smith (tenor and soprano saxophone) and Ginger Baker (drums).

[2] Melody Maker's Chris Welch has suggested The Sound of '65 "may have been the greatest album of the Sixties" and "one of the most exciting and influential of its time"[3] given the respect paid by luminaries like Steve Winwood and Bill Bruford.

[5] Barnes describes Bond as one of the most influential artists of the 1960s, partly for his band's "freshly minted, jazz-inflected take on R&B including some classical influences.

"[5] The ensemble's cover of "Wade in the Water", released as a single, begins with an interpolation of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565.

[5] It was one of the first singles purchased by keyboardist Keith Emerson, who described the intro as "cool", and similarly interpolated Toccata and Fugue in D Minor during the Nice's "Rondo" (from The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack, 1967).