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The Game of Love (Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders song)
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Wikipedia article
"'The Game of Love'" is a 1965 song by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, released in the United States as "Game of Love".
Track listing
Original version
US re-pressing
Chart history
The song reached No. 1 on the U.S. 'Billboard' Hot 100 week of April 24, 1965 and No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1965.
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Tex Pistol version
The song was covered in 1987 by New Zealand musician Ian Morris, under the stage name Tex Pistol and released as "The Game of Love".
Background
Morris was looking for a "more commercial" follow up to his Tex Pistol debut single "The Ballad of Buckskin Bob". He had begun work on a cover of The Underdog's "Sitting In The Rain" when advertising music collaborator Jim Hall suggested "The Game of Love" as a good song to cover. Morris "immediately knew how it would sound". He credits its success to "a combination of technology of the time and a good simple song".The song is notable for its unusual drum sound. Morris had been working on the audio for a card ad at the time. His curiosity piqued by a supplied video clip of a racecar going over a hill, Morris recorded the sound, sped it up, and mixed it with a clip of a snare drum.
The song also features Callie Blood, Morris's later collaborator on advertising jingles, on backing vocals.
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Charting and awards
The song went to number 1 on the New Zealand music charts. According to Morris's brother Rikki Morris, the song was a surprise hit and so the 500 pressed copies sold out, meaning that the single hit number one but could not remain there.The reworking of the song gave Morris a 1987 RIANZ award for best engineer and a nomination for best producer. The song was accompanied by a video by then-teenager Paul Middleditch that was also nominated for best video and is now considered one of the highlights of New Zealand 80s music-video making.
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Category:1964 songs
Category:1965 singles
Category:1987 singles
Category:The Mindbenders songs
Category:Songs written by Clint Ballard Jr.
Category:Fontana Records singles
Category:Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
Category:Cashbox number-one singles
Category:Number-one singles in New Zealand
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