The Young Rascals / Groovin' (US, Atlantic, 8148) <July 31, 1967>

The Young Rascals / Groovin' (US, Atlantic, 8148) <July 31, 1967>
(SIDE 1) A-12605-B
(SIDE 2) A-12606-C

Felix Cavaliere – vocals, keyboards, organ
Eddie Brigati – vocals, percussion
Gene Cornish – vocals, guitar, bass, harmonica
Dino Danelli – drums
　David Brigati – vocals
　Hubert Laws – flute
　Chuck Rainey - bass guitar

"Groovin'" is the third album by rock band The Young Rascals. The album was released on July 31, 1967 and rose to #5 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and number 7 on the R&B chart. Eight of the songs were released on singles with the title track reaching number 1 on the Pop chart in the U.S.　

This was the last album on which the band was billed as "The Young Rascals"; their next album, Once Upon a Dream, would be credited to simply "The Rascals". The album began the Rascals' first forays into the psychedelic genre that they would explore further on Once Upon a Dream.

Eight of Groovin's eleven songs were issued by Atlantic Records as single A- or B-sides. The three songs specific to the album are "Find Somebody", "I Don't Love You Anymore", and the Rascals' cover of "A Place in the Sun". "If You Knew", upon its initial release as the "B" side of the single "I've Been Lonely Too Long", was jointly credited to all the Rascals' members; the writing credit was changed upon the album's release. Atlantic Records was at first reluctant to release the title song as a single, but its popularity was such that Italian and Spanish versions were released on different sides of a subsequent single.

Flutist Hubert Laws is featured in a sessions role on the album's final track, "It's Love".

Booker T. & the MG's took a cover of "Groovin'" to the charts later in 1967 and the song "You Better Run" was later covered by Pat Benatar and was a hit for her in 1980.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR1Nar2Boks

Don't come knocking on my front door
Thinking things are like before
I don't love you anymore

Today the world is looking fine
I finally found some peace of mind
'Cause now you see I realize
Your love was only a disguise

Don't come knocking on my front door
Thinking things are like before
I don't love you anymore

Remembering how it used to be
And how you made a fool of me
But now it's over and it's done
It's like my life had just begun

Don't come knocking on my front door
Thinking things are like before
I don't love you anymore

Don't come knocking on my front door
Thinking things are like before
I don't love you anymore

I don't love you anymore
I don't love you anymore
I don't love you anymore
I don't love you anymore
I don't love you anymore