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<p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Groovin%27_%28The_Young_Rascals_album_-_cover_art%29.jpg" alt="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Groovin%27_%28The_Young_Rascals_album_-_cover_art%29.jpg"></p><p><strong><em>Groovin'</em></strong> is the third album by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rock</a> band <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Rascals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the Young Rascals</a>. The album was released on July 31, 1967 and rose to #5 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_200" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billboard Top LPs chart</a>, number 7 on the R&amp;B chart, and number 2 in Canada.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovin%27_(The_Young_Rascals_album)#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a> Eight of the songs were released on singles with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovin%27" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">title track</a> reaching number 1 on the Pop chart in the U.S.</p><h2>History</h2><p>This was the last album on which the band was billed as The Young Rascals; their next album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Dream_(The_Rascals_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Once Upon a Dream</em></a>, would be credited to simply The Rascals. The album began the Rascals' first forays into the psychedelic genre that they would explore further on <em>Once Upon a Dream</em>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovin%27_(The_Young_Rascals_album)#cite_note-Unterberger-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a></p><p>Eight of <em>Groovin'</em>'s eleven songs were issued by Atlantic Records as single <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-side_and_B-side" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A- or B-sides</a>. The three songs specific to the album are "Find Somebody", "I Don't Love You Anymore", and the Rascals' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_version" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">cover</a> of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Place_in_the_Sun_(Stevie_Wonder_song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Place in the Sun</a>". "If You Knew", upon its initial release as the B-side of the single "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ve_Been_Lonely_Too_Long" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">I've Been Lonely Too Long</a>", was jointly credited to all the Rascals' members; the writing credit was changed upon the album's release. Atlantic Records was at first reluctant to release the title song as a single, but its popularity was such that Italian and Spanish versions were released on different sides of a subsequent single.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovin%27_(The_Young_Rascals_album)#cite_note-Unterberger-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flute" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Flutist</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Laws" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hubert Laws</a> is featured in a sessions role on the album's final track, "It's Love".</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._%26_the_MG%27s" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Booker T. &amp; the MG's</a> took a cover of "Groovin'" to the charts later in 1967<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovin%27_(The_Young_Rascals_album)#cite_note-Unterberger-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a> and the song "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Better_Run" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">You Better Run</a>" was later covered by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Benatar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pat Benatar</a> and was a hit for her in 1980.</p><h2>Cover design</h2><p>The front cover design was conceived (but not illustrated) by the Young Rascals' drummer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino_Danelli" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dino Danelli</a>. The illustration was a work of his friend, Lynn Rubin.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovin%27_(The_Young_Rascals_album)#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a> Affixed to the front cover was one of two stickers indicating: "THIS LP HAS THE BIG HIT", followed by either "How Can I Be Sure" (as shown in the cover photo on the right) or "A Girl Like You" as both tracks climbed into the Top 10.</p><h2>Reception</h2><p>Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRating<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Allmusic</a><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" height="11" width="11"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" height="11" width="11"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" height="11" width="11"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" height="11" width="11"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/20px-Star_half.svg.png" height="11" width="11"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovin%27_(The_Young_Rascals_album)#cite_note-AM-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[4]</a>Writing for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Allmusic</a>, critic Bruce Eder wrote that the album moved into the psychedelic genre while retaining a "soulful core". He called the album "their best of their entire history... but 'Groovin'' was only one small strong point on the album of the same name."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovin%27_(The_Young_Rascals_album)#cite_note-AM-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[4]</a></p><h2><br></h2>