The Originals © by Arnold Rypens - GROOVY KIND OF LOVE, A

Artist: Diane & Annita
Author: Toni Wine/Carole Bayer Sager
Label: Wand
Year: 1965

Reissued on the Ace cd Where The Girls Are Vol. 2. Was also written by two women: Toni Wine (Mrs. Chips Moman) was one of the Archies (Sugar Sugar) and wrote Black Pearl for Sonny Charles & The Checkmates. Coauthor Carole Bayer Sager (Mrs. Burt Bacharach) wrote It's The Falling In Love, That's What Friends Are For, When I Need You and You're Moving Out Today (see there). Diane & Annita is probably an alias for both of these songwriters.

Covers:

1965:: Patti Labelle & The Blue Belles [buried on the B-side of their Atlantic single Over The Rainbow, years before Lady Marmalade, with a young Nona Hendryx and produced by Bert Berns]
1966:: Mindbenders [n°2 in UK & US]
1966:: Petula Clark
1966:: Richard Anthony [as Le Même chemin]
1967:: Sonny & Cher
1967:: Gene Pitney
1968:: David Garrick
1970:: Toni Wine [coauthor]
1977:: Les Gray
1979:: Ivan Graziani [in Agnese, his own adaptation of Clementi's Rondo]
1983:: Doenja
1988:: Phil Collins [n°1 UK, US, NL & B]
1993:: Neil Diamond
2000:: Sabrina Paris [as Look At Us]
2000:: Aba 7 [as Like A Butterfly]
2001:: Dan Finnerty [in film The Wedding Planner]

Sounds a bit like the Sonatine In G by Italian composer Muzio Clementi (1752-1832), the Rondo more precisely. That sonatine is featured all over in any piano playing instruction book, that of the young misses Sagar and Wine included.

GROOVY KIND OF LOVE, A

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