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1967 single by The Association

"Never My Honey"
Unmarried by The Association
from the album Insight Out
B-side	"Requiem for the Masses"
Released	ix August 1967[1]
Genre	Bizarre popular, sunshine pop, psychedelic popular
Length	3:07 (anthology) 2:49 (single)
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Don Addrisi, Dick Addrisi
Producer(s)	Basic Howe
The Association singles chronology
"Windy" (1967) "Never My Love" (1967) "Everything That Touches Y'all" (1968)

"Never My Love"
Unmarried by The fifth Dimension
from the album The 5th Dimension/Live!!
B-side	"A Love Like Ours"
Released	1971
Genre	Pop
Length	three:45
Label	Bong
Songwriter(south)	Don Addrisi, Dick Addrisi
Producer(s)	Bones Howe
The fifth Dimension singles chronology
"Light Sings" (1971) "Never My Dearest" (1971) "Together Let's Find Love" (1971)

"Never My Love" is a popular standard written past American siblings Don and Dick Addrisi, and best known from a striking 1967 recording past The Association. The Addrisi Brothers had two Height 40 hits as recording artists, but their biggest success as songwriters was "Never My Dearest". Recorded by dozens of notable artists in the decades since, in 1999 the music publishing rights organization Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) announced it was the second most-played song on radio and idiot box of the 20th century in the U.Southward.^[2]

History [edit]

The first recording of "Never My Dear" to achieve success was by The Association, an American sunshine pop band from California. Their version of the song, recorded with members of The Wrecking Coiffure,^[3] including Hal Blaine on drums, Joe Osborn on bass, Larry Knechtel on keyboards, and Al Casey and Mike Deasy on guitar, also including producer Bones Howe on tambourine, peaked at number ii on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, kept out of the number one spot past "The Letter" by The Box Tops,^[iv] and hit number one on the Cashbox charts in October 1967, one of the band'south five top-ten hits in the late 1960s.^[5] Their third number 1 on the Cashbox Top 100 Singles Chart, following "Cherish" (1966) and "Windy" (1967), it was featured on the ring'south anthology Insight Out (1967). The song also reached number i in Canada's RPM charts.

By the fourth dimension The Association's record was certified Gilt by the RIAA for one million copies sold as of Dec 1967, Billboard noted that xvi artists had recorded the song.^[half-dozen] Their third number one unmarried had fabricated them a peak concert act and highly in demand by the Boob tube variety series, specials, and talk shows that were a predominant format at the fourth dimension, and they performed the hit on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hr, The Hollywood Palace, The Dean Martin Show, Dick Clark's American Bandstand, Hullabaloo, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Dick Cavett Show, The Joey Bishop Show, The Steve Allen Show, and a Carol Channing special.^[seven]

Description [edit]

AllMusic'due south Stewart Mason wrote of the "laid-back and dreamy" single with a "sleek and sophisticated" tune that "the dual lead vocals, by Terry Kirkman and Larry Ramos, are supported past wordless harmonies as effortlessly airy as whipped cream." Stonemason credited Ray Pohlman'southward "clever arrangement (with adding) infinite to the sound through juxtaposing disparate elements similar the 5-annotation bass riff that introduces the verses and the electric piano lick that ornaments the chorus, rather than jamming them on top of each other." Mason observed that it sounded "like Pohlman had been paying particular attention to Burt Bacharach'southward work with Dionne Warwick, a resemblance The 5th Dimension afterward amplified on their cover of the song."^[8]

Chart history [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

The Association

Notable encompass versions [edit]

That cover by the American popular group The 5th Dimension was produced past the aforementioned man behind The Clan's record, Bones Howe. Recorded live in 1971, their version reached number 12 on the Hot 100 in November of that year.^[five] The recording also hit number one on the Billboard Easy Listening nautical chart, the grouping'south fourth to top that chart, post-obit "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" (1969), "Wedding Bell Blues" (1969), and "One Less Bell to Answer" (1970).^[26] The group's version of "Never My Love" reached number 45 on the Billboard R&B chart.^[26] This version also hit number 9 in the Canadian charts. Allmusic's Matthew Greenwald wrote of The 5th Dimension'southward single, "This version, a vocal solo from Marilyn McCoo, is a not bad vehicle for her powerful pop voice... A song that has 1 of the near directly, straightforward loving messages, it remains one of the most-played and performed songs of the pop era, and for good reason."^[27]

The Swedish stone band Bluish Swede covered "Never My Beloved" in 1974. This version peaked at number seven on the Hot 100 and remained in the Top 40 for eight weeks and was the third hit version of the song.^[5] This version reached number 7 in Canada.^[28] Their version was an upbeat take on the song.

The Addrisi Brothers themselves recorded the song three times: The first recording from 1970 remained unreleased until 2001, when Varèse Sarabande released the CD Never My Honey - The Lost Album Sessions. The second recording was released as an album-track on their 1972 debut album We've Got To Get It On Again on Columbia Records. The third recording was released in late 1977 every bit a single on Buddah Records which peaked at number 80 on the Hot 100 and number 28 on Billboard 's Easy Listening nautical chart^[26] and was also included on their second album Addrisi Brothers.

Barry Manilow covered the song for his album Summertime of '78 (1996). Additional versions of the song that reached the Billboard charts in the U.S. include The Sandpebbles (No. 98 pop, 1968); Vern Gosdin and Janie Fricke (No. 9 country, 1978); and Chill Factor (No. 62 R&B, 1988).^[26]

Other versions were recorded by popular artists every bit diverse as Hans Christian (a.k.a. Jon Anderson, Subsequently of Yes) in 1968, Booker T. & the Chiliad.G.'s, Vikki Carr, Percy Faith, Peter Nero, The 4 Tops, Lou Christie, Billy Crawford, Astrud Gilberto, Etta James, Steve Lawrence, Brenda Lee 1974, The Lennon Sisters, The Lettermen, The Sandpipers, David Hasselhoff, Pekinška Patka, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Della Reese, Smokey Robinson, Donny Hathaway, Tinkerbells Fairydust, Tom Scott, Sylvia, Cal Tjader, The Ventures, Kathy Troccoli, Andy Williams, Boris Gardiner, Sarah Vaughan, Vern Gosdin, Samantha Jones, Spencer Twenty-four hour period and The Casuals.

The Quebec crooner Raymond Berthiaume covered "Never My Honey" in French (Non, non jamais) in 1968

Mexican ring Los Freddy's covered "Never My Love" in 1968 equally (Vuelve mi Amor) traduced by Arturo Cisneros in Spanish.

Mercy released a version of the song on their 1969 album, Beloved Can Make You Happy.^[29]

In November 2013, the Japanese male child group A.B.C-Z covered the vocal.^[30]

In 2014, Bryan Adams recorded a version for his album Tracks of My Years.

In 2019, Jakob Dylan and Norah Jones covered the song on the Echo in the Coulee soundtrack.

Legacy [edit]

In 1999, the vocal was recognized as the 2d most-played song in history, with performances of more than seven 1000000, according to BMI. The number 2 rank on the Superlative 100 Songs of the Century, listing the nigh-played songs on American radio and television, placed "Never My Love" between the number i song "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", written by Barry Mann, Phil Spector, and Cynthia Weil, and the number 3 song "Yesterday" by Lennon–McCartney. BMI estimated that the song had received, as of 1999, what amounted to about 40 years of continuous airplay in its 32 years.^[2]

In Baronial 2006, music critic David Raposa placed the song at number 152 on Pitchfork 's list of the 200 greatest songs of the 1960s, writing "While the Association's happy-together harmonies might make them seem similar but another chirpy pop grouping aching to be hoisted upon Charles Manson's petard, there'due south a wispy melancholy to "Never My Love" that lifts it higher up the rabble. This reassuring affirmation of amour is a California dream that knows the alarm could go off at any fourth dimension, which, in a earth of airheaded love songs, makes all the difference."^[31]

Television and film [edit]

In 2020, historical drama Outlander features this song during the opening of its flavour v finale episode, the episode also existence titled "Never My Beloved".

In 2021, the Netflix mini-series 9 Perfect Strangers featured the song during its finale.

The song appears in season 3, episode 3 of Sex Didactics.^[32]

In 2021, the vocal is used the Hallmark movie "Signed , Sealed, Delivered: The Vows nosotros Have Made."

See as well [edit]

• List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1967
• List of number-1 adult gimmicky singles of 1971 (U.S.)
• Listing of recordings of songs Hal Blaine has played on

References [edit]

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