Bev should of had career worthy of her talents. A distinct singing voice, a cool stage presence, and a certain vibe that would of made her an iconic star.

It's so great that these performances survive because they were the epitome of an era that will never be repeated.

I had the good fortune of seeing them in person. Incredible!

Love Bev's voice, the Rickenbacker 12, and Gibson 330 driving this song. Mike Stewart wrote a great arrangement.

My mom's favorite song in 65....made me dance with her when I was 4. I miss those days

When they turned the CUTE METER on, Beverly went right off the Scale with it ❗❤❤❤🥰😋

One of the best endings of any song from the Sixties or Seventies.

This never gets old !

Cap off to the band for doing this live. An inspiring performance!

This is one of the rare videos from the 1960's where the singers actually sang. It's very well done.

I enjoy this style of music and I am 79. It was wonderful.

I love the way the song builds and crescendos, not to mention its groove and harmony. A terrific live performance from back in the day!

I absolutely love these "minimalist" live performances. No pre-recording, no mixing. Just 6 musicians hanging it all out. And they pulled it off beautifully. What energy!

A timeless classic. The studio version was recorded at Columbus recorders at The Columbus Tower in SF. The studio was owned by The Kingston Trio. The Kingston Trio's manager, Frank Werber produced We Five. The guitarist with the glasses is (was) John Stewart's (then a member of The Trio) younger brother. He went on to produce many records including Billy Joel's first LP.

Man, it’s 1968 all over again, not going college, got drafted, that got cut short by my Dad dying at the same time, stayed back to help Mom with my younger sister and very young brother...a very sad but wonderful time, all at once. This song and all the other music got me thru it.

Love this group. Beverly Bivens had such a beautiful voice. She was awesome.

That song never gets old .

I love her voice. Can’t get enough of it.

I was 13 in 1965, I latched on to that song and never forgot how great We Five were... WE HAD THE BEST MUSIC, 1960S, 1970S!

You know you're good when Fred Astaire introduces you! Someone else here pointed out how Fred hesitated to approach them before the applause stopped - not wanting to take the moment from them. He was always a gentleman.

Beverly was beautiful, a real looker and what a voice! I could listen to her all day.

When I woke up this morning, this song was on my mind. It was! So I came here. I love this. And Fred Astaire is absolutely adorable - look at him at the end, rushing over and clapping! Sweet.

THE WORLD OF MUSIC NEEDS MORE OF THESE KIND OF BANDS---!!!!!!!!!

I saw this band play in Ottawa Kansas at Ottawa University, a small college town of about 10,000, probably around 1965-66. It always amazed me that they came to our small town. At the time, I was a shy 13 year old boy that was in love with Beverly and still am=). One of my all time fav's. I will always remember that night at Ottawa University and that song...

Growing up when this song came over the radio, it stuck with me.. everyone was singing along...even today it's one of my favorites...2023

No auto tune mic, fancy costumes, smoke, or bright color lights. Just raw talent and great lyrics. ❤️

This is the best recording of all the performances. Live, no lip sync. You can hear Beverly's voice clearly. And she is very animated. It looks like they were really enjoying it.

they took a pretty good song by Ian and Sylvia (Sylvia wrote this) and with the arrangement by Mike Stewart (glasses) and Bev's voice , took this to the highest level...... and they are doing this live.... great !!

Beverly Bivens and her parents lived just down the street from a friend of mine in Tustin, Ca. Her mother came over to my friends one day and played "You Were On My Mind" for us and asked if we thought it would be a hit!! We told her "Hell yes"!! Memories of much happier days in 1965!!

I like this live revved up version. GEAT!!!!!!!!!

Yep Bev is AWESOME. More song writers should have approached her. Great Talent!!!

very rare to have a song played live on a T.V. back in the 60's, very rare. This is a gem AND to have "Mr. Class" Fred Astaire to introduce We Five is "icing on the cake"

I love the little dance step Beverly does in all her appearences

Hollywood Palace and introduced by FRED ASTAIRE... MAGNIFICENT!!!! I''d take this over Woodstock ANY DAY.

Back when life was Normal.

No doubt about it "You Were On My Mind" was a super hit for the "We Five" in 1965, even though this was a great song and hit "The We Five" never really charted another big song. However like most of America I fell in love with the song and hearing it 51 years later is an oldies thrill. In 1965 I told my girlfriend of one year that this song reminded me of her because she was always on my mind. We got married in 1969 and will be married 47 years this year, and yes she is still always on my mind. Great song, thanks for posting it!!

Love her voice. Resonance and timbre, not the usual indistinguishable high female voice.

This is one of those songs that just sticks out. Very talented cast..

Such an exciting and electrifying live performance! Bev Bivens and the guys were a great group! Too bad they didn't have a longer run.

This is very seriously the greatest song ever.

A rare live TV performance by We Five in the era of lip synch, and they did it so well. A great memory from the summer of '65. RIP Mike Stewart, Jerry Burgan, Bob Jones and Pete Fullerton. Only Bev is still alive today.

This song came out the same year I graduated from high school and it seemed like you could hear it being played on someone's transistor radio all over the campus. Great song, great memories and it always brings a tear to my eye as I remember the good old days.

Beverly Bivens...one of the great voices, though largely unknown, that I wish would have recorded more. I could listen to her for hours. I love how the intensity in this version builds to a great finish. A perfect recording, and better yet, a perfect live performance.

She does the go-go boot shuffle just like Mama Cass did.

Fred Astaire and the We Five. It doesn't get any better.

One of the best songs of the sixties!

This is the precursor to all the great psychedelic 60s music. Truly a classic

Bev is CUTE! Great little dance moves to a great song perfectly arranged, played and sung. We knew it was a "new" kind of song, another evolutionary leap. It's perfect.

Bev was soooo adorable!

Wow. Beverly had the most amazing voice. Just powerful and crystal clear.

Just a great group that didn't stay together long enough. Bivens was sensational.

I really wish that female singers today showed this much class.

A dazzling live version of this classic 1960's song!

She is adorable. Missing songs like this.

I love the way as her singing gets more intense, her dancing gets more intense. And when she dials her singing back, the dancing slows. She's obviously having a blast.

Always loved this song- hard to believe it's been 59 years since its release. Bev Bivens sure can sing.

A Canadian wrote this gem 💎 of a song...Ms Sylvia Tyson.

This is an old song that is timeless, as it is still good to hear, so many years after it was released.

Hot damn! No lip synching here. A powerful live performance. This is one of my all-time favorite songs, of Any era.

The drummer in clip is John Chambers: toured with We Five from 1965-67. In addition, he played with such blues greats as Big Mama Thornton and Big Joe Turner as well as such popular local San Francisco rock groups as The Loading Zone, and The Elvin Bishop Group.

fred astaire introducing and applausing this fabulous band with this super cool song in a warmheated and enthusiastic way - just great; whereto have these times gone

I remember the day after seeing this show I was walking in my house singing " I got trouble..." my mom said "your gonna have trouble if you don't clean your room"

This was my best friend's favorite song back in '65. We were 12 years old and times were great. Sadly, he was killed a year later. There is not too many days that go by I don't think about him. When I hear this song I can go back 50 years and remember how he went on and on about this song. I do play this video from time to time just to think about my friend and besides its a great song.

Man !!!! Why isn't popular music this good anymore ?? I mean, this number is so infectious with it's beat and melody. Not to mention that Bev Bivens was so freaking hot !!! I'm also glad that the group didn't use all of the original lyrics to this number as used by Ian And Sylvia. Listen to their version here on KZfaq and you'll understand what I mean.

can't get this song out of my head every day i find myself getting on youtube and listening to this but just listening isnt anough i have to watch the video with her dance and the accent of her voice and just the energy that the band gives off it's magical and i find myself singing this song as im walking

Wow!. . . being introduced by the one and only Fred Astaire is an honor in itself. But then, "We Five" delivered with a wonderful rendition of their great 1960s hit. Electric guitars weren't even that far along yet. Bev has some graceful 2-steps and an angelic voice The 4 others instrumentalist/singers summoned talent like it was natural to them to bring it all together. Outstanding, upbeat song from yesteryear.

Wow. One of the all-time greats, for sure.

"We Five" is a pure 60`s group with the 60`s feeling all the way through📀

This song sounds as good as it did 55 years ago. For a few minutes I was a kid again.

Always loved the way this song built up. Simple at first, then a real rocker.

Brilliant, actually performing!

The band was rocking!

Great performance! Remember it when it was first release and it still sounds great. How different life was then, back in the 60's.

A perfect pop song. Does everything it can and should with a truly magnificent harmonic finish. Still an extraordinarily good sound - and Beverly Bivens had more than enough voice along with an excellent presence. What happened? This was their only hit - but one they can all be incredibly proud of.

My goodness I love Beverly Bivens' singing! I wish We Five had a longer career.

What a damn clever arrangement of a good song to make it great - And the girls voice is certainly the icing

What a super presentation! The yellow turtlenecks were so cool and Bev with her white Go-Go boots, not to mention the Cilla Black-style hairdo. This song was a real toe-tapper, too! Love it!

My college roommate and I wore out two copies of the album with this song on it. I still have copy number 3, and the song is still one of my favorites after all these years. I was happy to find this recording of a live performance.

I do feel sad for the later gens that were not able to grow up in the era of the best music. I still have all these bands on 8 track. Lps and now on Y/T. Thanks You Tube.

...and they played LIVE and it sounded great!

So much good music that was hidden away from us younger generations is now available to us via KZfaq. No matter what people say about YT, it can be a force for good xxx

You can tell Fred Astaire was really impressed with this group. I first heard this song in the 80s when I was a teenager, and I haven't forgotten it.

Great live!

I wake up every morning still loving this song. It came out in what??? I remember... The 60's.. Another great song from my childhood.

Wow rocking it live! Much faster and high energy but such an amazing, classic record. That thing just JUMPED off the radio back then, nothing quite sounded like it. Feel so lucky to have grown up when I did.

Whether you like them or not, these 60's groups had the chops. No pro-tools or digital editing them days. You had to deliver.

Oh my . . . They're doing it live!

I’m 54, and I’m watching it, What’s that tell you ??? Excellent 👍🏻

Sylvia Tyson wrote this song - she is being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame tonight. Great tune.

Bob Jones ... the guitar player in the back (left). We went to to high school together (St Louis High School, Honolulu). He was one year ahead of me but we rode the public bus to school together everyday. I never thought he'd make it big in music.

Bev Bevins and the guys in We Five were one helluva band! Whoa!

I never get tired of watching a young Bev Bivens. She had that classic "girl next door" look. Fabulous.

A Classic Tune on the Radio from the day it was released. So many great memories with this tune playing in the background...

I miss being back in the 60's but we can't turn back time.

I love this song! That ending is a smasher!

Good song. I am now 62 and still enjoy the oldies!

To be introduced by Fred Astaire, they're all sounding great. I love that Bivens is just as animated as she is on the other show in the velour top! No lip-synching, guitar plugged in, great harmonies!

Mike Stewart was a genius putting together a group like this. I remember when this song burst on the scene when I was a kid; to think that folk songs like You Were on My Mind could be reworked into folk rock hits that would capture the nation. It seems that the era was a flash in the pan, but what a flash...

One of the few 45s I have and have it on CD too. Never get tired of this song.

I had forgotten about this song, until just now! Love it so much! Wow, blast from my past!