You Were On My Mind - We Five {Stereo} 1965 [View all]

"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.