Don't You Care

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"Don't You Care"
Don't You Care - Buckinghams.jpg
Single by The Buckinghams
from the album Time & Charges
B-side "Why Don't You Love Me"
ReleasedMarch 1967 (March 1967)
Recorded1967 (1967) Columbia Studios New York, NY
Genre Pop [1]
Length2:32
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Gary Beisbier
Jim Holvay [2]
Producer(s) James William Guercio
The Buckinghams singles chronology
"Lawdy Miss Clawdy"
(1967)
"Don't You Care"
(1967)
"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"
(1967)

"Don't You Care" is a single by The Buckinghams from the album Time & Charges . The song spent 14 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967, reaching No. 6, [3] while reaching No. 1 in the Philippines, [4] and No. 4 on Canada's RPM 100. [5] It was recorded in Columbia's 16-track New York Studios. [6]

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Chart performance

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References

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