MIKE FURBER AND THE BOWERY BOYS
You Stole My Love
(Graham Gouldman)
Australia 1966
#8 Melbourne #21 Brisbane #12 Adelaide

Single released on both Sunshine and Kommotion labels.

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

Listen to You Stole My Love and other Mike Furber tracks at MPH.

Further reading: Milesago's Mike Furber page by Paul Culnane.

THE MOCKINGBIRDS
You Stole My Love
(Graham Gouldman)
UK 1965
Original version

Single on Immediate label, #IM-015

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.

Reference: John Bruinsma's Graham Gouldman Things website.

THE YARDBIRDS
You Stole My Love
(Graham Gouldman)
UK 1967

Originally unreleased track from the sessions for The Yardbirds' final album, the 12-track Little Games. Both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were present for this.

You Stole My Love was released in 1992 as a bonus track on the 32-track Little Games Sessions And More, and again in 1996 on a 26-track CD of Little Games. This appears to be an instrumental track.



Further reading: Bruce Eder's reviews at All Music Guide: Little Games, Little Games Sessions And More and Little Games (1996 CD).

GRAHAM GOULDMAN
You Stole My Love
(Graham Gouldman)
UK 2000

On 2000 album And Another Thing by the composer. The title recalls his 1968 album The Graham Gouldman Thing.

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