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Feelin' Groovy is the debut album by the American sunshine pop band Harpers Bizarre, released in 1967. The record peaked at #108 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart in May 1967. Over on the Hot 100 Singles chart, "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" peaked at #13 in February 1967 and "Come to the Sunshine" peaked at #37 the following May.
The song was released under a new band name, "Harpers Bizarre" (a play on the magazine Harper's Bazaar), so as not to alienate the Tikis' fanbase. [1] The Harpers Bizarre version of the song reached No. 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in April 1967, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] far exceeding any success that the Tikis thus far had.
Newman first offered Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear to Californian sunshine pop band Harpers Bizarre. Their recording appears on their first album Feelin' Groovy, issued in April 1967. [5] The song was popularised by a recording by the Alan Price Set. [6] Price considered Newman "head and shoulders above anyone else" as a songwriter. [7]
On the Canadian release, simply entitled HARPER'S BIZARRE (Polydor 2424 162) four tracks (Everynight/Banana King Louie/Beechwood 4-5789/That's The Way It Was) were omitted and replaced by Feelin' Groovy ( re-recorded version)/Listen To The Rain (Scoppetone)/You Gotta Make Your Own Sunshine/Young Love. The last two were issued as a 45 in the U.S.
Petersen left the group after their third album, Beau Brummels '66, to join Harpers Bizarre. [3] Formerly known as the Tikis, Harpers Bizarre had a top 20 hit with a remake of Simon & Garfunkel's "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" in 1967. The group broke up in 1970, but Petersen returned for a reunion album in 1976.
Anything Goes is an album by Harpers Bizarre, released in 1967. Two bonus tracks were added to the 2001 CD issue of this title: the 45 version of "Cotton Candy Sandman" by Kenny Rankin, and the theme to the TV series Malibu U by Don and Dick Addrisi. The title track was used in the opening montage of the 1970 film The Boys in the Band.
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