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  • Greaaat song!!! "I Want Yo' Number."

  • 一瞬、To Sir With Love かと思った。若き日のEric は可愛いわね。So Good!

  • Eric Stewart on lead vocals. He went on to form 10cc. The Mindbenders hit #2 in Billboard, 5-28-66. God bless ya. for postin' it. Thanx! Have a great weekend!

  • @DaveWollenberg dont forget hot leggs

  • so groooooovy

  • GROOVY!!!!!!

  • Nice early Sixties Manchester, UK band!

  • xxx

  • I sang Hippie Kinda Love It goes: When i feelin blue all I gotta do is get in touch wit you an buy them pills what blue then I gets real high and forgets all bout blue

  • this is good. but phil collins made it better

  • @jaggass Never.

  • @jaggass : Definitely agree!

  • i ALWAYS THOUGHT ONE DAY i WOULD MARRY eRIC sTEWART HE WAS MY DREAMBOAT. XXXXXXXXXXXXXMY FIRST RECORD i EVER BOUGHT.

  • Love Eric

  • @davidgraves346

    D'oh, sorry. Posted before reading...

  • The guy singing is Eric Stewart, who wrote and sang "I'm Not in Love" (among many other songs) when he was a founding member of 10cc. Just in case you guys weren't aware...

  • I love this!!! Thank you for posting!

  • Wow--I've never heard this original, only the Collins version. This is way better, yet not as emotional.

  • Classic songs like this do not need remakes, they cannot compare at all.

  • Espectacular, fabulosa canción. Y Mindbenders sonaba mucho mejor sin Fontana.

    Excelente Eric Stewart y Mindbenders dondequiera que estén!!

  • And if the face is familiar that is Eric Stewart later of Hotlegs and 10cc

  • @davidgraves346 Hi! I wrote you one message. Please, read it.

  • groovy!

  • This original version is definitely more groovy than Phil Collin's version but I like Phil's version better for the way it exudes an atmosphere of deep emotion and love while the original is more poppy and dancy. I prefer my love songs slow and mellow.

  • Thanks for this. Great song, wonderful memories and yes, in this case, the original version is by far the best.

  • I just love Eric Stewart.This was the first record I ever bought when I was a teenager. a handsome group and fab. x

  • and i thought Phil Collins was the original...well i'm only 24, what do i know?

  • I love his version

  • where was Wayne?

  • btw, Eric Stewart in sunglasses in the Hotlegs video.

  • Pre 10cc but after mindbenders, Eric Stewart was in one hit wonder band called Hotlegs with Kevin Godley and Lol Creme (Godley and Creme) doing Neanderthal Man in 1970. It's on youtube, check it out. Hotlegs Neanderthal Man

  • I'm feeling groovy ~

  • isn't this Eric Stewart from 10 cc

  • i always find the older songs sexyer

  • Groovey man

  • A favorite from my youful NYC radio days! Groooooooveeeee! LOL

  • A real classic from the 60s, the lyrics are beautiful, a real love song!

  • This video is posted on Facebook page called "Golden Tunes - Sound of Oldies", so if you have fb account and some time, check it, i guess you will like it :) Page is for everyone who like like warm cozy sound of evergreen music.

  • The singer here is Eric Stewart, who with Graham Gouldman the bass player for about 8 months at the end of the band, went on to form 10cc. Gouldman was also who wrote this along with other stuff like Bus Stop and Look Through Any Window for the Hollies; For Your Love, Heart Full Of Soul for the Yardbirds; No Milk Today for Herman's Hermits and Pamela, Pamela for Wayne Fontana.

  • @IowaOz - Thank you for this information. I didn't realize there was any connection between the Mindbenders and 10cc. I also never knew where prolific songwriter Graham Gould had come from. Thanks for posting. Peace Always.

  • just missed this generation! Think I would have "dug" it!

  • You know, you don't have to knock Phil Collins for covering another's song, I always prefered The Mindbenders original (possibly because it was the only version I'd known before Phil came along) but remember, without covers we'd never have had the likes of Elvis Presley singing Blue Suede Shoes and that would have been a big pity.

  • @yintong5

    well said.

  • it sucked back then.....nothing has changed

  • Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.

  • never knew Filth Collins even did a cover of this. I'm sure I didn't miss a thing,hard to top a classic!

  • @ziggster59 "Filth Collins"...LMFAO LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLL

  • Excellent!! It is their song & NOT Phil Collins's...he's just the guy that took the scrapings off another yesterdays breakfast table!!

  • a wonderful song

  • I thought that this song was made by Phill Collins.

  • @rbk17 a newbie?

  • Hace poco tiempo que he descubrido esta canción. Ella es muy bonita, una de las más bellas de los 60´s. Y puedo perceber que Los Mindbenders eran tan buenos cuanto Los Beatles y Simon y Garfunkel.

  • Love them

  • Such a simple song, yet it conveys so much. One of the few I actually memorized.

  • Is that Eric Stewart from 10-CC singing lead?

  • @97doodlebug Yes it is!

  • @97doodlebug YES!!!

  • We got a ZNPV kind of love!

  • So damn Groovy, nothing is better than the ones who sang before the watered down version.

  • phil collins version much better, cant really compare, but still much better.. this sounds more like my shit coming out several bad food days

  • @keysersozeh listen to the record by the Mindbenders - You probably heard Phil first = as you get older you will become more educated in dealing with the golden past of music!! - PhIl actually re laquered the gold [or as you say shit] that came from this original --I like Phil but let him stick to the great stuff he writes!

  • @roselandalvin you dont know my age, i might be older then you are :) (i dont think musical preference is bound by age anyway), i am my musician (see my youtube page) so i have some knowledge of and feeling for music i think (at least im not tone deaf... and my reaction was pointed at another les than nice reaction on this video. Happy you enjoy the above track. Phil probably likes it, i dont. But i do feel he made it gold with his rendition, not the other way around.

  • first time i've heard this version. it's certainly groovier than the more popular phil collins rendition!

  • Eric Stewart, later of 10CC, on lead vocal!!!

  • very difficult song to sing...

  • Phill Collins' version is too slow. Was he trying to put people to sleep? Seriously, his version is very depressing.

  • @FoxPlant2006 agree!

  • MY GOD ELLEN REMINDS ME OF THE ORPHEUS I HOPE YOUR WELL

  • The only thing Phil Collins was good for was playing drums for Peter Gaberial.

  • Phil Collins version is 10x better than this one. IMO

  • another great British Invasion band!

  • we got a groupie kind of love.

  • this version counts

  • phil collins all the way

  • JASON we have a groovy kind of LOVE

  • this is theee Original !! Alot better than the Phil Collins version .. Great sound .. the best ... love it .. long live the 60s' .. thanx .. Lyndloo..

  • was eric stewart and that other 10cc guy here?

  • @UrbanGuerilla88 - it was definitely Eric Stewart - not sure about Gouldman..

  • recycled clemeti bitches.. Op 36 No 5 rondo check it out!

  • Just viewed Neil Diamond's version of this classic and I have to say he does it extrodinarily well. But I would say that since he can do nothing wrong, musicaly, in my mind :-)

  • this is the original and still the best

  • This has to be one best song of all time - and such an early live recording.

    Perfect - Ta moocho !

  • @bertwindon You are so right

  • @dusty11111988

    Cheers Dusty11111 ! - I live in Bulgaria these days - make wind and solar domestic energy systems - do garden - try to feed everyone - little time nor energy for Vera !. Happy memories of a relatively sane world. bertdotwindonatgmaildotcom

  • @bertwindon Hey Bert, It seems to me you did well to go to Bulgaria. Over here in the Netherlands it's pretty busy in my job as a chartered accountant. I want to rest and work on my allotment.

  • @dusty11111988 Well dusrty, why not drop me a line and then I can tell you just how well I did - compared to staying in UK that is !! Good luck with your allotment, though I think you are soon going to be needing the Rest - while you watch it all grow - the weeds that is !

  • Old Flash? Go upgrade.....wouldn't you agree, baby you & me, got a groovy kind of love.

  • another bit of recycled Mozart . . .

  • Ah, another recycled bit of Mozart . . .

  • @Mercari1964

    Clementi, actually--Op.36, No. 5, third movement. I have a student playing this piece and he seemed shocked that a "rock song" would have been ripped from a classical sonatina. :P

  • looooooooooooved it,so sweet,wish this was back

  • an alltime great !

  • Groovy

  • Wat a great song. remember this wen it first came out .I feel the emotions of this are far betta than Phil although I adore his music as well.!!

  • A fave...

  • Wow we have a groovy kind of love,,R,

  • Love it! Love it! Love it!! It's: GROOVY!!!

    Thanks for adding!!

  • The internet is very slow , a first 4, 5 AM in the morning. I can still send you a comment however and thanku 4 posting one of my all time favorites. It was redone by another artist in the 80's but didn't compare to the original, 4 some reason it didn't stack up with me. Others who didn't grow up with the Mindbenders probably didn't know of them & if so probably would say they can only hit it off with Phil's version which compares to the original. Thanks for sharin this video & song.

  • Classical music had an amazing influence on pop music during this time. Check out the 3rd movement of Clementi's Sonatina op. 36 No. 5, and see if you can't find the similarities!

  • Your so right 1967mod the 60,s were all about peace + love.This is one of my all time favourites .love it, CAZX

  • groovy

  • This is music! I like so much!

    Golden Time before Hendrix and Cream !

    Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders is hidden jewel in the past time!

  • It is one of my favorite songs though it was before my time. I always like listening to this song, and it is not because of memories, it is because it is good quality music.

  • bigseer if you like Eric, check out paul mccartneys video So bad! the version in the studio is the best.

  • One word: groovy.

  • Eric Stewart and Denny Laine were the very best of Macca's right hand men...better than one John Ono Lennon, RIP, in my humble opinion. He should have stuck with those guys and formed a new Wings.

  • This was the song my father dedicated to my mother on their first date which was - 1977.

  • Why are most of the comments so sarcastic and serious, it was the sixties and the Mindbenders were good looking guys I was 14 when I saw them live. so stop being grumpy. I have fab memories.

  • according to wiki, Leslie Gore was prevented by her agent to record this song because of the word Groovy. Is that because the word was too risqué or too lame? if risqué, what is risqué about it?

  • It was too groovy.

  • This song was written with the great Scottish psychiatrist Dr. Charles Follen Mckim Maloney as the inspiration.

  • I have really redisovered 10CC because of Graham Gouldman and I knew Godley and Creme from "Cry' and there videos. Eric Stewart flew under my radar...until now. What a talent!!!

    If they ever do a movie about him. Sondre Lerche is the spitting image of him and he is good a singer and guitar player as Eric.

    It is actually uncanny. Maybe Eric was Sondre's mum's milkman?

  • I adore Eric Srewart Bob Lang and Ric Rothwell the most handsome guys I have ever seen they are all talented and fab Eric still singing and a fab muscian ace.

  • I know what you mean,..... it was in wrong key......... or wrong aftershave or she was a Stones fan. Bet you didn't sing it to next burd!!

  • Laptop up and running again now. Your right - never used Brut again after that but I still think I can sing - the sad thing is a friend told me she regretted doing it so I asked her out again - I wined and dined her took her home in a black cab we had a good night - said I would ring her - I didn't - she turn up on my door step asking why - I said because I didn't want to see her again - it felt good at the time but I wish I ..................... ar well water under the bridge now

  • In 1967 I remember singing this song to a girl while she had her head on my shoulder in my parents front room - she finished with me the day after - I was heart broken But it doesn't end there ???????????

  • This song is SO hippy!

  • well its hard to choose eric over wayne fontana. but since erics lead singer of 10cc im swayed towards liking this version. sorry wayno fans

  • In 1966, Eric Stewart became the lead singer of the Mindbenders. He is the original singer of The Mindbenders version, of this Wine-Sager song. Eric Stewart still has a great singing voice today. On the original record. They overdubbed his voice. Same with Wayne Fontana.

    This music is all part of the roots of what changed Rock N' Roll forever.

    Long live the oldies!!

  • Brings back childhood memories of playing this on an old Marconiphone record player - the type you could stack a dozen singles on and it'd play them one after the other! They really were better days, sums up the feeling of being in love then as a teenager.

  • Phil Collins covered that song as the soundtrack for a movie he played in, because that movie was set in the 60's...Saying he stole it is quite unfair, because he never released it on a regular album! (only BEST OFs)

  • hhaha tegan and sara singing this haha i just melt! :)

  • The Mindbenders' version of the song wasn't he original. It was first released in 1965 (the same year, but earlier than the Mindbenders' version) by a female duo called Diane and Annita. But it is true that the songwriters, Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager based its composition on the Clementi Sonatina

  • Could someone put this in sync..

  • In 1988 Phil Collins came out whit its version of "A groovy kind of love", and many italian music "experts" noted that it was "too much" similar to "Agnese dolce Agnese" by Ivan Graziani (1979). Phil Collins simply replied his song was only a cover of an old success of Mindbenders (1965), but the final cut was that Mindbenders'song was not original. In fact, it was widely derived from the Rondo of Sonatina op.36 n.5 by Muzio Clementi (a classic author of 18th century !).

  • sorry, I forgot another "piece": in 1966 an italian group, the Camaleonti, wrote a cover of "A groovy kind of love" with italian words: "Non c'è più nessuno".

  • I always wanted a groovy kind of love.

  • I love this song! but the kimchi dudes at my school choir made this song sound so gay!

  • well thats nice.

  • all i do is wimper, now that theres no silver,

    in the silent barn,,,

    bitch beyond the day...

    all i do is pray...

  • This song was running though my mind all afternoon too! It reminds me of someone I love.

  • i love you too

  • Same here... it reminds me of someone I loved.

  • This song was running through my mind all afternoon...I had to check it out~~~

    Lovely nostalgia!!

  • I don't care how old this is. It still rocks my socks.

  • esta curada la rola jejeje me trae recurdos de mis papas jejeje

  • Yes, Eric Stewart is the lead singer. He's the same guy who sang lead vocal on "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc.

  • Wow...tons of memories. Engaged to a girl while in college. Alas, didn't work out. Will always remember her, however, particularly when I hear this song. Hope you're well Helen. The past 40 years have flown. Jody

  • damn u olddddddd.....

    rofl apologies ;)

  • I salute you sir

  • Crap without Wayne Fontana !!.

  • babs wow  just adore this song....bless ya for showing a bit of heaven!!! have fun!!!

  • That young couple makes me dream dancing together,this was life

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  • Another great song of theirs!

    Thanks for sharing!

    Kathy

  • i love so this song, beautiful, the best version, the best song...

  • I hated the version by Phil Collins,Ilike this one better.

  • the better version is ivan graziani's agnese...

  • Super,super lucky audience

  • I like the song too....

  • goodXd

  • Only the second time I've heard this song, versus the Phil Collins version and I'm moved by the vulnerability in the singers voice.

  • PS. mr. Magnin is our music tchr.. (if anyone ever heard this name tell me).. My old music tchr was ms. Gorgia.. lol

  • wow this is such a great song. we had to play it on our pianos for music class 2day. lol. cya ppl...

  • this was their first song after the split from wayne fontana, they should of done more

    eric stewart had a far better voice than wayne,but we did have 10cc later

  • Love this sing. Something about it. Prefer it to Phil Colins version!

  • he sings the song in earnest, which makes it 10 times better.

  • Just read the info at the top!!

  • This isnt wayne fontana on lead vocals is it??

  • Lead vocal is Eric Stewart, later of 10cc.

  • Love This Song - Cheers S2

  • Really love this one! Thanks, Jeanette!

  • Loved this song since I was a kid. Hated the Phil Collings version. This clip of the Mindbenders performing it live is simply fantastic.

  • This makes my heart move and fly,real music.

  • This is the Best version.Period.

  • what a great rock tune! it keeps bouncing around in my head, once heard--so simple and beautiful.

  • Nice to hear the drums to the fore in the 60's........

  • the lead singer is a fox

  • I think it's Eric Stewart from 10cc

  • The LP is great too.

  • my dad's juke box. back in the day. I like

  • 2.5cc

  • Ah, the sad newbies who weren't around when this song first hit the airwaves. What can they say - but Phil Collins version was better? They never heard the original and best? If it weasn't great..old Phil would have never covered..I'll give him props for knowing what's great !

  • I played in a group as support to

    Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders at The Floral Hall Ballroom Morecambe in 1964. One great group.

  • the Mindbenders are fab.

  • This live version is a bit lean but the record is the best. Collins doesn't come close. He shouldn't have touched this gem.