Remaining
together following the departure of frontman Wayne Fontana, the
Mindbenders got off to one of the most promising starts any band could
enjoy, when their debut single "A Groovy Kind of Love" soared to number
two in the U.K. and topped the chart in America. And had the group only
succeeded in locating a decent follow-up, they might well have
developed into one of the finest British bands of the late '60s.
Instead, a series of disastrous choices of 45s condemned them to the
ranks of rank also-rans, and it is only later that the sheer quality of
their other work — material hitherto lost on two Mindbenders LPs — had
been re-evaluated sufficiently to let listeners state that here was one
of the greatest of all Britain's post-beat bands.
A Groovy Kind of Love
album totally failed to capitalize on the success of its title track,
floundering to a lowly number 92, while a second song by "Groovy"
comp
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