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George McGovern

(7,766 posts)
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:57 PM May 18

You Were On My Mind - We Five {Stereo} 1965

"You Were on My Mind" is a popular song written by Sylvia Fricker in 1961. The song was written in a bathtub in a suite at the Hotel Earle in Greenwich Village. Fricker wrote it—her first composition—in the bathroom because "it was the only place ... the cockroaches would not go". It was originally performed by Fricker and her future husband Ian Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia and they recorded it in 1963 for their 1964 album. In 1965 the song was covered in an up-tempo version, with slightly altered lyrics and melody by the San Francisco folk-pop band We Five. The dominant voice was that of the band's lead singer Beverly Bivens.


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50 Shades Of Blue

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1. The We Five version always shoots me back to the fall of my 8th grade year, sigh! I like the Ian & Sylvia version too!
Sun May 18, 2025, 09:03 PM
May 18

LoisB

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3. I know the words to this song but keep thinking it was sung by someone else because I
Sun May 18, 2025, 09:23 PM
May 18

never heard of We Five. Got it! The Mike Curb Congregation is the version I know.

fargone

(385 posts)
5. Here is the songwriter lady herself, Sylvia Tyson
Sun May 18, 2025, 10:41 PM
May 18

After her10 years as half of Ian and Sylvia she had a solo career in Canada. In the 90s she was a founding member of the Canadian super folk group, Quartette.

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