This is a lovely little ditty from back in the sixties and from one of my favourite films, ‘To Sir, With Love’ and after some research I found out The Mindbenders had an America number one not with this song.
The beat pop band, groovy baby, and I can see the International Man of Mystery Austin Powers bopping to this tune were popular in America.
They were part of the sixties British invasion of the American music scene but had limited success chart wise in the States but a bit more over this side of the pond.
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.
Faltering after the success of "A Groovy Kind of Love" the group was invited to contribute two songs to the soundtrack of Sidney Poitier's movie To Sir, With Love. The band performed “It’s Getting Harder All the Time” in the end of film scene in the school gymnasium at a dance. Due to some errors with the release of the single "Off and Running"/ “It’s Getting Harder All the Time” it barely registered in the charts on both sides of the Atlantic pond.
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