Which group had 1967 hits with 'Night Of Fear' and 'I Can HearThe Grass Grow'?
Carl Wayne and the Nightriders. They enjoyed three years of hits with singles such as "Night of Fear", "I Can Hear The Grass Grow", "Flowers in the Rain", "Fire Brigade", and their only number one success "Blackberry Way". In their early years the Move had a stage act which occasionally saw Wayne taking an axe to television sets, or chainsawing a Cadillac to pieces at the Roundhouse, London, during "Fire Brigade", an escapade which resulted in the Soho area being jammed with fire engines, and the group being banned for a while from every theatre venue in the UK. But by the
I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) language version, "Sospesa Ad Un Filo", was recorded in 1967 by top Italian beat group I Corvi. I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" is a song written with music by Annette Tucker and lyrics by Nancie Mantz, which was recorded in late 1966 by the garage rock band, The Electric Prunes. Released as the band's second single, it reached # 11 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and # 49 in the UK in 1967. It was also the lead track of the band's debut album, and became more widely known