A Groovy Kind of Love

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"A Groovy Kind of Love"
"A Groovy Kind of Love" cover
Single by The Mindbenders
from the album A Groovy Kind of Love
B-side(s) "Love Is Good"
Released 1966
Format 7" single
Genre Pop
Length 2:00
Label Fontana
Writer(s) Carole Bayer Sager, Toni Wine
Chart positions
The Mindbenders singles chronology
She Needs Love
(1965)
A Groovy Kind of Love
(1966)
Can't Live With You Can't Live Without You
(1966)

"Groovy Kind of Love" is a pop single originally released in 1966 by The Mindbenders on the eponymous album. It was written by Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager, and heavily based on the Rondo section of "Sonatina in G major," op. 36 no. 5 by Muzio Clementi. In 1988, Phil Collins covered the song for the movie Buster. The Mindbenders' version reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100; Collins had his only simultaneous number-one in both the U.S. and the UK with his rendition. The song is also played in the Friends episode "The One With the Wedding Part 2"

Preceded by
"Red Red Wine" by UB40
Billboard Hot 100 number one single (Collins version)
October 22, 1988- October 29, 1988
Succeeded by
"Kokomo" by The Beach Boys
Preceded by
"The Only Way Is Up" by Yazz and the Plastic Population
UK number one single (Collins version)
September 4, 1988
Succeeded by
"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" by The Hollies