The Gremlins - The Coming Generation (1966)

The Knickerbockers - The Coming Generation (1965)

(Annette Tucker - Nancie Mantz - Jill Jones)
 USA
Original version

Single on Challenge November 1965, B-side of Lies, by band from Bergenfield, New Jersey, formed 1964.

The writers:
Annette Tucker, Nancie Mantz and Jill Jones supplied a number of songs for US band The Electric Prunes including their two charting singles I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) (Tucker-Mantz 1967, #11 USA) and Get Me To The World On Time (Tucker-Jones 1967, #27 USA, #42 UK). Eight of the twelve songs on the Prunes’ first album were either Tucker-Mantz or Tucker-Jones compositions.

Freddy Cannon’s single She’s Somethin’ Else (1965) is a Tucker-Mantz-Jones composition.

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Lies, the A-side of the Knickerbockers’ single, was their only US Top 40 hit (#20 USA, #10 Australia). Their next single One Track Mind (1966, #46 USA, #77 Australia) was their second most successful, written by Linda and Keith Colley (see also here and here).

… [N]o one sounded quite so much like the Fab Four as the Knickerbockers on their biggest hit, 1965’s “Lies,” which brilliantly captured the sound of the Beatles’ early period with its enthusiastic harmonies and tough but melodic guitar lines. 

Mark Deming at All Music

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Further reading: 1. Knickerbockers biography by Mark Deming at All Music. 2. Annette Tucker at Spectropop. 3. Jill Jones at Discogs.com.