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.

Old songs. Great memories.
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