A trio of repeats topped the Billboard Hot 100 the week of May 31, 1966: Percy Sledge’s ‘When a Man Loves a Woman,’ The Mindbenders’ ‘A Groovy Kind of Love,’ and The Rolling Stones’ ‘Paint It Black.’

At #4, on its way to a peak at #2, was The Lovin’ Spoonful’s ‘Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?’ This gentle rocker was the band’s fourth of seven straight singles to reach the top 10 of the chart (only these guys and Gary Lewis and the Playboys had that many consecutive top ten hits to start their career).

This song was not initially intended to be a single. It got extensive airplay as an album track and ended up charting in Canada, which prompted the label to give it an official U.S. single release. The band had two singles from another album chart between this one and its albums lead-off single, ‘Do You Believe in Magic?’

This is a lyrically cheeky song about fickleness in matters of the heart. It’s hard not to chuckle at lines like “Sometimes you really dig a girl the moment you kiss her and then you get distracted by her older sister.”