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@pepperdineu1 But if you buy the Beach Boys record now, you'll see it is credited to Chuck Berry.

The piano on Ruby, as well as on Lets Spend the Night Together and Paint it Black, was Jack Nitzsche.

@DaveWollenberg Theres another video of Dean doing this song live last year - and he is still hitting those high notes at age 55 - so no girl, I'm sure it's him (double-tracked)

@99Quench You didn't dream it - it is called "Come Home" and there are versions of it on here - great song and you are 100% correct on the first line.

Kind of sad - doesn't even sound like they rehearsed it. I agree with the post about Chad and Jeremy - I saw them last year live and they still sounded fantastic.

Well both Glenn Frey and Don Henley were Stone Poneys before the Eagles. I don't know about Henley, but that does look like Glenn Frey on the guitar to Linda's right.

It is so sappy, I hate to admit it was the first 45 I ever bought (along with Valleri).

Bobby retired from performing, but still sells artwork on his website and does appearances at art shows. Don't know whether he brings a guitar!

This song did get up to number 10 in July of 1968 on WLS. Unfortunately, most of the rest of the country never heard of it. But for another great example of WHY? I Need Love by the Third Booth got up to #2 in the same month, only kept out of #1 by Jumpin Jack Flash. But try to find anyone out...

I guess one reason this song did not do better, even in Chicago, was because of some of the fighting between record companies, WLS and WCFL. The song made it as high as #13 on CFL, but never even broke into the top 30 on WLS. I used to listen to LS a lot more than CFL in those days - conversely...

@finnmick96 Pretty sure this is a Glenn Frey song

The group members are not only floating around - they can be found on You Tube. Jack and Suzanne Sigler - and they have a video of themselves performing on a Carnival cruise which includes Love Can Make You Happy.

I was about 6 years old first time I heard this song, and I asked the same question - if she gave him a sandwich, why not just give him the nickel? I thought maybe the fare kept increasing, like an overdue library book.

Not only did this song not get the national attention it deserved, but if you listen to the Shames albums, the band definitely deserved better. I think Columbia decided to put all of their money and promotion behind Guercio and the Buckinghams, and the Shames never got the exposure they deserved.

Dont forget -- a few years later, Tony was back again with First Class - Beach Baby

I dont know how anyone can knock this guy's writing ability:

Eve Of Destruction

Secret Agent Man

You Baby

Let Me Be

A Must To Avoid

Take Me For What I'm Worth

I Found A Girl

and at least 10 other popular 60s songs I can think of

And even though Barry MacGuire sang it, Phil got all the backlash f...

PF Sloan is alive and well, I saw him at Fitzgerals in Illinois about 1-2 years ago - it was half concert and half Q & A. A very interesting person, indeed.

My favorite Searchers song and when it was popular, I never heard it. For some reason, it hit the WLS chart in Chicago for one week, and then disappeared.

I see Riverdales comment and agree to a degree - but for a better year, check the summer charts from 1966 or 1967. Theres at least 10 songs out of the top 40 that are all time classics.

Give em a break on harmonizing - they are singing this about 3 notes lower than the original.

Oddly enough though, I saw Chad and Jeremy live a year ago and they still did the original keys on Yesterdays Gone and A Summer Song and sounded just great.

PF Sloan has to be one of the greatest almost unheard of songwriters from the 60s - and so many of his songs, like this one, have a very depressing undercurrent to them, much like "Let me Be by the Turtles, "Where were you when I needed you" by the Grassroots, and of course, "Eve of Destruction"....

Nillson did a much better job with the song than Badfinger - but sadly, both Pete Ham and Tom Evans committed suicide (8 years apart), and it had to do with getting screwed out of their royalties from Without You.