The week of May 17, 1966, found a quartet of classic songs I’ve already posted atop the Billboard Hot 100. They were, in order: The Mamas and the Papas’ ‘Monday Monday,’ Bob Dylan’s ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35,’ The Young Rascals’ ‘Good Lovin’,’ and Percy Sledge’s ‘When a Man Loves a Woman.’
That #2 position was the closest Dylan ever got to a chart-topping hit, and it was his second song to hit #2 following ‘Like a Rolling Stone.’
At #5 that week was The Mindbenders’ ‘A Groovy Kind of Love,’ on the way to its own stint at #2. This was The Mindbenders’ one big hit as a trio following the departure of Wayne Fontana a year earlier after the #1 hit ‘The Game of Love.’
Written by Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager, ‘A Groovy Kind of Love’ was initially released by the duo Diane & Annita a year before The Mindbenders recorded their version. In 1988, Phil Collins released a slower take on the song for the film Buster, in which he also starred.
When I’m feeling blue, all I have to do
Is take a look at you, then I’m not so blue
When you’re close to me, I can feel your heartbeat
I can hear you breathing in my ear
[Refrain]
Wouldn’t you agree, baby, you and me
Got a groovy kind of love? (Groovy kind of love)
We’ve got a groovy kind of love (Groovy kind of love)
[Verse 2]
Anytime you want to, you can turn me on to
Anything you want to, anytime at all
When I taste your lips, oh, I start to shiver
Can’t control the quivering inside
[Refrain]
Wouldn’t you agree, baby, you and me
Got a groovy kind of love? (Groovy kind of love)
We’ve got a groovy kind of love
[Verse 3]
When I’m in your arms, nothing seems to matter
If the world would shatter, I don’t care
[Refrain]
Wouldn’t you agree, baby, you and me
Got a groovy kind of love? (Groovy kind of love)
We’ve got a groovy kind of love (Groovy kind of love)
[Outro]
We’ve got a groovy kind of love
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