The Mindbenders were an English beat group from Manchester,England. Originally the backing group for Wayne Fontana,they were one of several acts that were successful in the mid-1960s British Invasion of the US charts,achieving major chart hits with "The Game of Love" in 1965 and "A Groovy Kind of Love" in 1966.
Fontana Records is a record label that was started in the 1950s as a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips Records. The independent label distributor Fontana Distribution takes its name from the label.
"Stop! In the Name of Love" is a 1965 song recorded by the Supremes for the Motown label.
"Baby Love" is a song recorded by the American music group the Supremes in 1964 for their second studio album titled,Where Did Our Love Go. It was written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland and was released on 17 September 1964.
Unit 4 + 2 were a British pop band,who had a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1965 with the song "Concrete and Clay". The track topped the UK chart for one week.
Toni Wine is an American pop music songwriter,who wrote songs for such artists as The Mindbenders,Tony Orlando and Dawn ("Candida"),and Checkmates,Ltd. in the late 1960s and 1970s. Wine also sang the female vocals for the cartoon music group The Archies,most notably on their #1 hit song "Sugar,Sugar". She shared the lead vocals in the Archies' subsequent single,"Jingle Jangle" with Ron Dante using his falsetto voice. In addition,Wine was a backing vocalist on Gene Pitney's "It Hurts to Be in Love" and on Willie Nelson's "Always on My Mind."
Eric Michael Stewart is an English singer-songwriter,multi-instrumentalist and record producer,best known as a founding member of the rock groups the Mindbenders with whom he played from 1963 to 1968,and likewise of 10cc from 1972 to 1995. Stewart co-owned Strawberry Studios in Stockport,England,from 1968 to the early 1980s,where he recorded albums with 10cc and artists including Neil Sedaka and Paul McCartney. Stewart collaborated with McCartney extensively in the 1980s,playing on or co-writing songs for McCartney's solo albums Tug of War (1982),Pipes of Peace (1983),Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984),and Press to Play (1986). Since 1980,Stewart has released four solo studio albums.
"A Groovy Kind of Love" is a song written by Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager based on a melody by the classical composer Muzio Clementi.
"Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart" is a 1966 song recorded by the Supremes for the Motown label.
Glyn Geoffrey Ellis,known professionally as Wayne Fontana,was an English rock and pop singer,best known for the 1965 hit "The Game of Love" with the Mindbenders.
"The Game of Love" is a 1965 song by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders,released in the United States as "Game of Love".
"Road Runner" is a 12-bar blues song performed by American rock and roll performer Bo Diddley,originally released as a single by Checker Records in January 1960,and later released on the LP record Bo Diddley in the Spotlight. The song reached #20 on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart,and #75 on the Hot 100. The song has since been recorded by many artists.
"Neanderthal Man" is a song by Hotlegs,an English pop band that was later relaunched as 10cc. The song,initially created only as a studio exercise to test drum sounds on new recording equipment,sold over two million copies and reached No. 2 in the UK and No. 22 in the US. It reached No. 1 in Italy and Germany and was also a Top 20 hit in Australia,Canada,France,Ireland and Japan.
Clinton Conger Ballard Jr. was an American songwriter,singer,and pianist. He wrote two Billboard Hot 100 number one hits. The first was "Game of Love" by Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders in 1965. The second was the 1975 hit,"You're No Good" by Linda Ronstadt. He wrote two UK number one singles,recorded by Jimmy Jones and The Hollies.
Billboard Top Pop Hits is a series of compilation albums released by Rhino Records in 1994 and 1995,each featuring ten recordings from the easy listening charts from a specific year in the 1960s. Ten albums in the series were released,one each for the years from 1960 to 1969.
"Um,Um,Um,Um,Um,Um" is a song,written by Curtis Mayfield.
"Where Did Our Love Go" is a 1964 song recorded by American music group the Supremes for the Motown label.
"Skinny Minnie" is a 1958 song co-written and recorded by Bill Haley and his Comets. The song was released as a Decca single which became a Top 40 chart hit in the U.S.
Harvey Brian Lisberg is an English talent manager and impresario,best known for discovering Herman's Hermits in 1963. In 1965,he signed songwriter Graham Gouldman,a founder member of 10cc,who Lisberg also managed,along with Godley &Creme,Tony Christie,Barclay James Harvest,Gordon Giltrap,Sad Café,Wax and others.
"It's Just a Little Bit Too Late" is a song written by Clint Ballard Jr. and Les Ledo,which was originally recorded by Clyde McPhatter in 1963. A British beat group named the Druids would release their version in 1964 before the definitive version by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders was recorded and released as a single in 1965. Their version was the second of three songs by Clint Ballard Jr. that the group recorded together with "The Game of Love" and "She Needs Love". Their rendition of the song reached number 20 in the UK's Record Retailer but failed to emulate the success of their previous single "The Game of Love",only reaching number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100.
