I was of age during the Seventies...OMG, that song brought back so many memories...:)
I used to be in a CYO band organization as a teenager (modeled after drum corps, not high school band) and I recall being on a rented schoolbus, driving 30 miles home some warm August night after a competition, all of us singing that song together at the top of our lungs!
As only Catholic kids from an official organization could! The chaperones could only, I am sure, roll their eyes!
What a grand memory! The Seventies was such a strange time...:)
Now that demands an answer!
The Real Thing--The Spiders (1954)