Originally known as The Young Rascals, the New Jersey pop rock band The Rascals
wrote and performed some of the defining pop songs of the 1960s. Although they
have retired and reformed on more than one occasion the period between 1965 and
1972 was the band's heyday.
Between 1966 and 1968 the band entered the Billboard Hot 100 top 20 no less than
nine times with a variety of finely crafted pop singles, three of which reached
number one. Their 1967 release 'Groovin'' is possibly the band's best known tune
and is a slick blend of soul coupled with Latin rhythms which firmly estab...