GIANT SUNFLOWER - WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT GOODBYE

[goodtimefolkrock]

February Sunshine is my Fave GS song but i can't find it posted anywhere ..great slice of optmistic Flower Pop released in november of 67 just as the summer of love was fadaing and thurbulent year of 1968 approached...i sure wish someone would post that song if they have the 45 it's really great.



[williamg2552]

The MIRACLES' original version of "What's So Good About Good-Bye" was a Top 40 Billboard chart hit in 1962, peaking at #35, and a Top 20 R&B Hit.

[TheBodaciousBarb]

I have a 45 of February Sunshine (B side is More Sunshine, instrumental version) that I bought when I saw them play at Alhambra High School in California. That's the song I was looking for on YouTube, but it's not posted.

[ZephCjo]

Here in NYC the only commercial radio station playing this song was WOR-FM. I got my 45rpm at King Carol Records on W42nd Street; I thought I was the only one to get a copy. I was attending Career Academy School of Broadcasting at the time and at graduation time, I did my "final show" at school with my classmates. I played that song in my finale. What a memory.

joe c, bronx ny

[raydio99]

I looked for this song on the Rose Garden page and it isn't there. This is the only song I ever heard from the GS. Very Mamas and Papas and sweet.

I have it on a 45 I bought when it was first released in the 60s. I still love it, especially the funky sitar break.

[oldmoviemusic]

Could I pretty please have an MP3 of this???? It would be awesome....you can just message me about it....:) Thanks!

[Khultan]

Really, really groovy...hm-mmm.

[pgh45rpms]

This is indeed a Motown song written by Smokey Robinson. The Miracles recorded it back in 1962. The Giant Sunflower have given it a folk-rock spin, reminding me of the Mamas & Papas (which was also under Mr. Adler's influence).

[sunshinetunes67]

Actually the Giant Sunflower was a studio band that later became the Rose Garden. the GS didn't actually exist outside the studio.

They had close ties with the Byrds and Lou Adler from what I have been able to find out.

[madarch52]

good song

[rslitman]

I remember hearing this briefly on WEAM in Washington, DC, when it came out. The S. Robinson songwriting credit is Smokey Robinson, and I'm pretty sure I've heard a version by him with the Miracles. I think that producer Lou Adler owned the Ode label.