"Never My Love" (written by Donald & Richard Addrisi, recorded by the Association among others)

love this song, love the Association

i miss vocal harmonies you could actually make out the parts out and had their own unique blend, before recording techniques sterilized them to a phantom zone-compressed novelty

The other factor is The Association were all secretly dentists

They looked more like dentists than pop stars tbf.

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Beautiful song that I never heard until I picked up the Association greatest hits on vinyl for cheap a while back. "Windy" is the Association song I remember hearing the most on oldies radio in the late 90s

xp Exactly. I always noticed that.

The band that made the Turtles look like the Monkees.

OTM

Is there a credible reason to think this song got more oldies play or even contemporary airplay than, say, "Unchained Melody" or anything by Elvis or the Four Seasons? It doesn't seem like any of the versions were earth-shattering megahits, although some did well enough. Although I would normally trust BMI, I think I want to question these numbers.

"Elaborate hoax", "April fools day" are perhaps the simplest and best explanations.

Also interesting that the Fifth Dimension had a hit with "Never My Love" (#12 in '71), but theirs was recorded live. If they had recorded it in the studio they probably would have used the exact same musicians as the Association did.

Bones Howe produced both.