The Kit Kats - "Funny How Love Can Be"

The 1960's English trio known as The Ivy League had a hit single in the UK with "Funny How Love Can Be." The Kit Kats, a Philadelphia area bar band capable of producing the same rich harmonies as The Ivy League, decided to record this superb cover version of "Funny How Love Can Be" and include it on their August 1967 album It's Just a Matter of Time. By the way, if you share my philosophy, "never grow up, never grow old," come on over to my blog, Shady Dell Music & Memories at www.shadydell.blogspot.com. See you there!

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• quartet
• 1960's
• pop

[justmusicandme]

This definitely has that "Sixties" sound. Excellent post!

[sfratpack]

@justmusicandme As I often say, gangsta rap was light years away when songs like these were recorded. Thanks so much for your comment, Loretta!

[hrpman]

Amazing! The Ivy League were a polished and professional act that take some beating - but this is an excellent alternative version. Thumbs up from me!

[sfratpack]

@hrpman Thumbs up to you for your kind comments, my friend!

[rslitman]

The group was also known as New Hope at some point. They were best known for two songs, "Let's Get Lost On A Country Road" and "Won't Find Better", which was their only Billboard Hot 100 entry. It charted under the New Hope name. Although I now live in the Philadelphia area, I knew their songs from their being played on DC area radio stations and never heard Kit Kats/New Hope songs on Phila. oldies radio, for which their sound is not gritty/r&b enough.

[sfratpack]

@rslitman In York, PA, Shady Dellers and other fellers flipped over "Find Someone," the killer B side of "Country Road." Another piece of Kit Kats ear candy was "That's the Way," a Jamie side that rocketed to #1 on the top tunes survey of WLAN, Lancaster. Thank you, my friend, for your comment here and for posting on my blog a while back!

[TheRokjok]

Kit Kats cover of "Funny How Love Can Be" is very good... Seems like that song was shopped around in the U.K. and U.S..... The U.K. Group "The Ivey League' (which UK session "king" Tony Burrows was a brief member....also covered "Funny How Love Can Be" ,, a few years later Tony along with Jon Carter as The First Class "Beach Baby" session group... I believe "Funny How Love Can Be" was the second U.K. Records single release from The First Class projects. Thanks for sharing :o)

[neilp19401]

they played at my fathers club kit was great big john

rip

[justmusicandme]

@angelofbebop : Thanks for sending this, angel!! i enjoyed listening to this one!

[vespa202]

@angelofbebop thanks Angel,beautiful!!! :))

[rslitman]

@sfratpack And I'm still hoping to eventually hear their version of Neil Diamond's song "I Got the Feeling (Oh No, No)". Neither it nor the hit version of "Won't Find Better" by New Hope made it to that 2-CD anthology that was released several years ago.

[OLdies1960s]

@angelofbebop Great Share Angel !!! The Kit Kats had a had a nice sound :-))