Album: A Groovy Kind Of Love (1966)

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• When I'm feelin' 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 you heart beat
  I can hear you breathing in my ear
  
  Wouldn't you agree, baby, you and me
  Got a groovy kind of love (groovy kind of love)
  We got a groovy kind of love (groovy kind of love)
  
  Any time you want to you can turn me on to
  Anything you want to, any time at all
  When you kiss my lips oh, I start to shiver
  Can't control the quivering inside
  
  Wouldn't you agree, baby, you and me
  Got a groovy kind of love (a groovy kind of love)
  We got a groovy kind of love
  
  When I'm in your arms nothing seems to matter
  If the world would shatter I don't care
  Wouldn't you agree, baby, you and me
  Got a groovy kind of love (groovy kind of love)
  We got a groovy kind of love (groovy kind of love)
  We got a groovy kind of love Writer/s: Carole Sager, Toni Wine
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 24

• James from Fribourg, SwitzerlandSuch a wonderful song... Wouldn't you agree, baby you and me, got a groovy kind of love...
• Robert from UsaThis song is one of my most cherished memories. Hearing was failing in 1962 and by 1975 I became profoundly deaf with sensorineural hearing loss. These beautiful songs are part of my "auditory memory" and I replay them in my mind the way I remember them to enlighten my spirit and keep me sane. I may be deaf, but hold deep appreciation for the songwriters, singers, musicians, bands -- all! Your words, voices and music transcend time and touch the human spirit in ways that can never really be described. Thanks to all of you so very, very much!!!
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 10th 1966, "A Groovy Kind of Love" by the Mindbenders entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #78; six weeks later on May 22nd, 1966 it would peak at #2* {for 2 weeks} and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
  As stated above, it also peaked at #2 {for 1 week} in the United Kingdom, the week it was at #2, the #1 record was "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" by Nancy Sinatra...
  As the Mindbenders they had one other Top 100 record, "Ashes to Ashes", it reached #55 in 1966; and with Wayne Fontana they had two Top 100 hits, "Game of Love" {#1 in 1965} and "It's Just A Little Bit Too Late" {#45 in 1965}...
  * The 2 weeks it was at #2 on the Top 100 chart, the #1 record for both those weeks was "When a Man Love a Woman" by Percy Sledge.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn November 23rd 1988, the movie 'Buster', starring Phil Collins, opened in theaters across the U.S.A and Canada...
  The film had its world premiere two months earlier on September 16th, 1988 in London, England...
  The day the movie opened in American Phil Collins' covered version of "A Groovy Kind of Love", which was featured in the movie, was at #23 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; thirty-seven days earlier on October 16th, 1988 it peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks}...
  Another song featured in the movie, "Two Hearts", was at #35 when the movie opened; and two months later on January 15th, 1989 it also peaked at #1 and also for two weeks...
  Philip David Charles Collins will celebrate his 64th birthday in two months on January 30th {2015}.
• Martin from Fresno, CaI love the Mindbenders version of it.The melody of it is uptempo which make the great lyrics even better.
• David from Barnsley, United KingdomWhen I was learning the piano I borrowed a library book of Clementi's sonatinas, and guess what - upon playing one of them I recognised the tune of A Groovy Kind of Love!
• Steve from Hazel Crest, IlWayne Fontana (born Glyn Ellis on 28 October 1945, Manchester, Lancashire) changed his name to Fontana after Elvis Presley's drummer: D.J. Fontana.
• Ted from Phoenix, AzToni Wine's memory must be tricking her. "Groovy Kind of Love" was a British hit in February 1966--at least 5 months before Simon and Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme album (with "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy)" on it) was released.
• Saff from Melbourne, AustraliaIt's actually the other way around. It was Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders until Wayne walked off stage in the middle of a concert. After that they changed it just to the Mindbenders and A Groovy Kind of Love was their first hit under this name. And Eric Stewart was the lead singer on the song.
• Nady from Adelaide, Australiathis song is on my baby video when my dad was holding me:) aw
• Francis from Long Island, NyI'm a 6 year old kid in NY City in 1966. Had my little transistor radio with me ALWAYS!!! Other kids played with toys-I had music! This song by The Mindbenders to this day reminds me of playing in the sandboxes on Staten Island playgrounds watching the ships of the world go by and being near the waters of NY Harbor!!! Not that I am living in the past though...Years later it also became the song of a lady frined and me. Man do I miss her!!!
  But still absolutley love this song. I wrote Toni Wine several years ago to say I thought this version was one of the most "perfect" songs ever.
  
  Fran-Long Island,NY
• Nady from Adelaide, AustraliaThis is me and my dad's song! Its on the video of when I was born.
• Gabriela from Woodbridge, NjThis is my husband's and my "song", too! I called a radio station on Valentine's Day in 1987 and annnounced that it was for him from me...he loved the idea. Fact: It actually was "Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders" before it was just "The Mindbenders", that's usually how they announce it on the oldies stations.
• Bernard from Salford, EnglandEric Stewart did sing lead on this song. It was the bands first single after Wayne Fontana left the band.
• John from Isle Of Wight, EnglandSorry to disagree with the guy who thinks Eric Stewart was the lead singer on the Mindbenders cover. Although Eric was in the band the singer was in fact Wayne Fontana and the name of the band at that time was Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders.
• Lis from London, EnglandNot to be too picky, but this song is playing as Chandler walks down the aisle. When Monica starts walking, the music changes to an instrumental adaptation of Paul McCartney's My Love.
• Jenn from Warsaw, United StatesThis is mine and my husband's "song". I didn't realize that it was used for Monica and Chandler's wedding. Too funny.
• Clarke from Pittsburgh, PaI remember this fondly for the time of my life it represents, but it doesn't hold a candle to the Mindbenders' version.
• Stefanie from Rock Hill, ScWas the Mindbenders' version a hit here in the States. I have heard it on some oldies stations.
• Alan from Grande Prairie, Alberta, CanadaLead singer on the Mindbenders cover was Eric Stewart who went on to form the great 70's band 10cc.
• Jesus from Bethlahem, IsraelThis song is groovy. I've only heard the live version of this, and you know what? It had me groovin'.
• Kevin from Cincinnati, OhI like the Mindbenders version much better.
• Daryl from SaskatoonThe music for this song was based on a classical piece, Rondo from Sonatina in G Opus 36 No. 5, by Muzio Clementi.
• Shannon from Pittsburgh, PaThe instrumental version of this song was played as Monica walked down the isle of her and Chandler's wedding on FRIENDS.

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