Beverly bivens age
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We Five - Where are they now?
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"You were on my mind" which I believe was written by either
Ian or Sylvia Tyson. Sylvia also sings this song but her
rendition is quite different from We Five's version.
Can anyone tell me who the members of We Five were and
what they are doing now?
Thanks.
Dave
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(Editor’s note: This is the first in a periodic series of blogs on notable one-hit wonders, a species of song that may well be dying. One-hit wonders became hits due to top 40 radio, which is of course itself dying. There may be one-digit downloadable wonders, but never more will there be songs that cause you to breathlessly turn up the car radio and tell everyone else to shut up. Because of their great abundance I will highlight only a sampling; however, I invite readers to submit their own favorite one-hit wonders, preferably with laptop-quality YouTube links.)
When I was in eighth grade and laid up in a Lansing hospital with a back injury, my roommate, a nice guy from Ovid-Elsie schools, and I kept transistor radios clamped to our ears and let each other know when our favorite songs came on. For me, my favorite favorite that fall of 1965 was “You Were On My Mind” by We Five. When that came up on Ovid-Elsie’s radio, he’d excitedly relay the news from his bed: “Hey Charley, ‘I got troubles’ is on!”
“I got troubles” was a key line from the song, a mournful reflection on lost l
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Beverly (Bev) Ann Bivens (born April 28, 1946) was the lead singer of the American West Coast folk rock group We Five from 1965 to 1967. She is the original band’s last surviving member. After her marriage to jazz musician Fred Marshall and the break-up of We Five, she sang for a while with the experimental Light Sound Dimension, but, by the late 1960s had largely left the music scene. After many years of relative seclusion, she sang at the opening of an exhibition in San Francisco in 2009. Her son is the saxophonist Joshi Marshall.
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