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The fact that GROOVIN' has another hit single which some fans think is even better--the gorgeously melodramatic, spacious "How Can I Be Sure"--makes this by default better than any of the Young Rascals' more scattershot and covers-heavy earlier albums. The other nine tracks are cut from the same stylistic cloth as the hits: more refined and quieter than their raucous early hits, songs like "I'm So Happy Now" and "If You Knew" are delightful collisions of lite-psych and jazz-inflected blue-eyed soul. GROOVIN' is a delightful album and probably the best starting point for this often underrated group.
The (Young) Rascals' best-known album is this 1967 release, thanks to the title track, the group's biggest-ever single. An infectiously lazy quasi-bossa nova with more hooks than really should be allowed in any one song, "Groovin'" is a stone classic, one of the best and most-beloved singles of the '60s.
Personnel: Eddie Brigati (vocals, guitar, percussion); Gene Cornish (vocals, guitar); Felix Cavaliere (vocals, piano, keyboards, programming); Dino Danelli (drums).
Groovin' Music | List Price | $11.98 (You save $1.53) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Oldies, 60's | | Label | Warner | | Orig Year | 1967 | | All Time Sales Rank |  21221  | | CD Universe Part number | 1100621 | | Catalog number | 27619 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 25, 1990 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Arif Mardin; The Young Rascals; Tom Dowd | | Engineer | Chris Huston; Tom Dowd | | Personnel | Felix Cavaliere - vocals, piano, keyboards, programming
Eddie Brigati - vocals, guitar, percussion
Dino Danelli - drums
Gene Cornish - vocals, guitar
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Awards:1991 ASCAP Award - "Right In The Wrong Direction"1991 ASCAP Award - "Is It Rainin' At Your House" (Writer)1991 ASCAP Award - "Is It Rainin' At Your House"1990 ASCAP Award - "I'm Still Crazy"1990 ASCAP Award - "Who You Gonna Blame It On This Time"1990 ASCAP Award - "That Just About Does It"1989 ASCAP Award - "Set 'Em Up Joe"1989 ASCAP Award - "Chiseled In Stone"1989 ASCAP Award - "Do You Believe Me Now?"1989 CMA Song of the Year - "Chiseled In Stone" (Max D. Barnes & Vern Gosdin)1988 Nashville Songwriters Association Song of the Year - "Chiseled In Stone"1988 CMA #1 Song - "Set 'Em Up Joe"1988 CMA Album of the Year - "Chiseled In Stone" (Nomination)1988 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year (Nomination)1987 CMA #1 in the Nation - "Today My World Slipped Away"1987 ASCAP #1 Club - "Today My World Slipped Away"1984 CMA Horizon Award (Nomination)1983 AMI's First Top Ten Single - "Today My World Slipped Away"1983 CMA Song of the Year - "If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right) (Nomination) (Vern Gosdin & Max D. Barnes)1983 CMA Horizon Award (Nomination)1983 Billboard Country Awards - "New Male Artist of the Year" Vern Gosden BiographyAs the sixth child in a family of nine, Vern Gosdin began singing in a church in Woodland, Al. where his mother played piano.Vern and Rex GosdinspacerIn 1961 he moved to California where he joined the West Coast Country music movement, first as a member of the Golden State Boys, then the Hillmen before forming The Gosdin Brothers with brother Rex. The duo hit the charts in the late 60s with Hangin On on the Bakersfield International label, then with "Till The End" on Capitol Records.He moved to Atlanta during the 70s, retired from performing and operated a glass company, but before the end of the decade he was back in the studio recording with Emmylou Harris and Janie Frickie .He signed with Compleat Records in the early 80s, and in 1984 released "There Is A Season", picked by the Los Angeles Times as "Best Country Album" of that year.He made the Top Ten consistently in the early '80s, really hitting his stride when he teamed with Max D. Barnes as a songwriting collaborator. The pair specialized in songs of cheating and barroom romance, often delivering an over-the-top emotionalism that got Gosdin compared to the ultimate legend of honky tonk vocals of George Jones . In 1983, Gosdin had two Top Five hits — If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right) and Way Down Deep and was voted CMA's Artist of the Year. The following year he had his first number one single with I Can Tell by the Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight) and had two additional Top Ten hits.After Compleat Records went bankrupt, Gosdin signed with Columbia in 1987. He had success right off the bat with Do You Believe Me Now he hit number one once again with the perennially popular Ernest Tubb tribute Set 'Em Up Joe . Gosdin's Chiseled in Stone , co-written with Barnes, won the Country Music Association's Song of the Year award in 1989.His 1989 album Alone was ...
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