Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in 1966, Southend-based group The Paramounts split. They’d scored a hit single in 1964 with their version of Poison Ivy while ...

The one-hit wonder by a British band was released in 1967.

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Songwriting inspiration can come from strange places—even an overimbibing partygoer, as was the case for Procol Harum’s 1967 hit, “A Whiter Shade of Pale”. Then again, if you were to ask the man who ...