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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.
A popular cover version was recorded by Harpers Bizarre on their 1967 debut album Feelin' Groovy, [4] reaching No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on the Easy Listening chart. [17] This version – which at 2:34 expanded on the Simon & Garfunkel original's running time, adding an a cappella choral section – was arranged by Leon Russell ...
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]
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.
1967 – Warner Bros. sunshine pop group Harpers Bizarre, as the opening track on their debut album, Feelin' Groovy. Parks himself was present on the album's recording sessions, and he plays keyboard on the track. This version reached #37 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. 1967 – The Pleasure Fair; 1968 – Roberta Lee
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At the suggestion of Warner Brothers staff producer Lenny Waronker, the group decided to change their name to Harpers Bizarre in 1966 with Templeman switching to guitar and vocals. [3] In 1967, the group released the album Feelin' Groovy (Warner Bros.), which included material by Randy Newman that later appeared on the songwriter's 1972 album ...