1967.

The inner jukebox was having a sixties party when I woke up this morning and my, wasn’t the volume up loud? Almost to eleven methinks. There may even have been a bit of shuffling around the kitchen whilst waiting for coffee.

Written by British songwriter and composer Tony Macaulay, along with Canadian-born Englishman 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.