~ The Chieftains & The Rankin Family ~
Barry Mann and wife Cynthia Weil of the Brill Building, whose songbook I covered a few years ago, wrote this tune for the little folk-rock band whom I covered last week. Just like “Shades of Gray”, this new tune would end up serving another purpose, that being a release by Cass Elliot a year later when the Mamas and the Papas broke up. This is the original.
That’s it for tonight. Tomorrow night, it’s the second part of 1968. Cue the Rockumentary theme!