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Great piece -- you've nailed a beautiful subgenre. As an aside, MIndbenders cover of Lieber and Stoller's "Tricky Dicky" was a mod masterpiece.

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I’ll give that a listen. I’m in Tokyo and found copies of The Mindbenders both with Wayne and not. But I’ll get them both when back in the states.

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Tosh, you’ve omitted arguably Wayne Fontana’s most enduring song, A Groovy Kind of Love (co-written by Carole Bayer Sager).

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Yes, I did miss that one! I made a boo-boo. Thanks!

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Intriguing overlaps between Wayne and Scott, though of course Mr. Walker then moved on (after his odd middle of the road phase) to truly staggering avant-garde sonic heights (or lows) in his third or fourth career leap.

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Yes he did. Scott is like no other artist. Uniquely brilliant

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