(Graham Gouldman)
Australia
#8 Melbourne #21 Brisbane #12 Adelaide
Single on Kommotion February 1966. Also on EP You Stole My Love October 1966.
The Bowery Boys were formed in Brisbane in 1965. Lead singer Mike Furber (1948-1973) was given top billing after they were signed to Ivan Dayman’s Sunshine label and management. After the band broke up in 1966, Mike Furber pursued an under-appreciated solo career, but in the early 70s he appeared to good notices in the gospel rock musical Godspell.
This was The Bowery Boys’ second single, a Graham Gouldman composition. Their first single was a band original, wrongly credited by some to Gouldman: see Just A Poor Boy
Further reading: Milesago’s Mike Furber page by Paul Culnane.
(Graham Gouldman - Jacky Pezet)
France
Version with French lyrics on 1966 EP Gardez les cheveux longs. The title is printed on the label and the sleeve with Stole spelt as Stol.
Les Gaëlic were a five-piece rhythm & blues band formed in Rennes, capital of the French region of Bretagne (Brittany). They recorded on Disques Festival: no connection with the Australian label Festival.
On the same Les Gaëlic EP was a French version of Bobby Hart’s Baby Let Your Hair Down, also recorded in Australia by Graham Chapman.
Further reading: Listing at encyclopedisque.fr; includes sleeve shots.
Version alert from Phil.
(Graham Gouldman)
UK
Original version
The Mockingbirds were songwriter Graham Gouldman’s own band.
The charts of the late 60s are peppered with Graham Gouldman compositions. They include Heartful Of Soul and For Your Love (The Yardbirds), Bus Stop (The Hollies), No Milk Today (Herman’s Hermits), and Going Home (Normie Rowe, recorded in London).
As a member of 10CC from 1970, Graham Gouldman wrote numerous songs, usually with Eric Stewart, including The Things We Do For Love and I’m Not In Love.
Further reading: Archived version of John Bruinsma’s Graham Gouldman Things website.
(Graham Gouldman)
UK
1966, released 1992
Instrumental work-in-progress from sessions for The Yardbirds’ final album, Little Games.
The Yardbirds’ late 1966 recording of You Stole My Love remained unreleased until 1992’s
Little Games Sessions And More. Dissatisfied producer Paul Samwell-Smith (also producer of the
original Mockingbirds version) had abandoned the session before a guide vocal or a final lead vocal could be
recorded.
(Liner notes, Cumular Limit, 2000. Thanks to Andrew Ainsworth)
Further reading: Dave Thompson’s review of Little Games at All Music.
(Graham Gouldman)
UK
Later version
Opening track of 2000 album And Another Thing by the composer. The title recalls his 1968 album The Graham Gouldman Thing.
(Clarke - Gurron)
UK?
Red herring
Same title but not the same song as “You Stole My Love” by Mike Furber & the Bowery Boys.
B-side on Tamla Motown (UK), recorded in London, produced by notable Moody Blues producer Tony Clarke and arranged by prominent British conductor Arthur Greenslade.
The writers are Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues and Tony Clarke. The A-side Simple Game had been recorded previously by The Moody Blues and was composed by the band’s keyboardist Mike Pinder.
Co-writer credit for Gurron is a misspelling of Guirron, a pseudonym of Justin Hayward.
Red herring alert from Terry Stacey.
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