1967.

Well this is definitely one I haven’t heard in a long time.

Written by Tony Macaulay and John MacLeod, this was the debut single from The Foundations. Apparently it was written in the same Soho bar where Karl Marx was supposed to have written Das Kapital, although I’m not sure what relevance that has to the song.

The release came not long after the launch of the UK’s newest radio station, BBC Radio 1, and having received airplay on the new station the song grew in popularity – and not just in the UK. It became a top ten hit in Ireland, Norway and South Africa whilst reaching number one in Canada. Here in the UK it spent sixteen weeks on the chart, including two weeks at number one.