1968 HITS ARCHIVE: I Will Always Think About You - New Colony Six (mono 45)

[@Angel-fc7ip]

Tugged my heart hard...recently I lost someone I loved dearly for 55 years, it was mutual..but for a time we couldn't live each other's lives, never lost contact though....

[@ronniewelch440]

Incredible flashback to a different time. Such a great song from 1968, brings back so many memories!

[@martylmilton]

I remember hearing all their songs on WLS Chicago in the 60s. This was definitely one of their best.

[@bobrich1950]

Yep. WLS and WCFL were really cool back then!!

[@proudtndad]

Thanks for posting. This was Sissie's Senior Song for Class of '69. She was taken from us in 1986 and this song helps with the good memories of when she was 18 and gonna live forever.

[@LilySandoval-vs4fe]

That's what Love Is Truly about ; never a barrier ‼️ Only a Continuous Passion is Required 💓 * May HE Endeavor to Pursue Her 💖...

[@pauladams346]

Will always love this song brings back a lot of memories

[@stevedunn5571]

What a wonderful song! It never goes out of style! Music is magical! ❤️

[@sylviakruger5000]

I heard all the New Colony Six songs on WLS Chicago...I have the 45!

[@木倉谷哲也]

Lyrics: I will always think about you Even If I live without you Please don't let that ever happen I have too much love within me for you Baby, it's true, baby I can't find the words to tell you Just how much I really love you If you feel the same way I do You will know the love I have here for you Baby, it's true Baby, the days we spent together were fine The nights, the lights were yours and mine, it's true I’ll always love you, always love you So let us plan our futures together Love is here, it's getting stronger Even if I live without you I will always think about you, it's true Baby, it's you, baby, it's true, baby, for you…

[@dantuttle3463]

Great, Great song and production from a time we are not likely to see again except in our memories !!!

[@MichaelGushue-tl8xd]

The song made the top 20 the week of June 1, 1968. A few days later, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles, Calif. What a tragedy!

[@bklynslipnjimmy]

Horrible year, RFK , MLK killed and the DNC riots. I was 12. At least the music was great

[@frdjr2527]

Not a big hit nationally but was #1 on WLS Chicago. Loved playing this 45 at basement parties when I was in high school.

[@margowakefield3295]

It was big in Central Ohio. I knew the band just by the shortened name, Colony 6.

[@frdjr2527]

@@margowakefield3295 Didn't know they shortened their name. The song did OK in NY, but not nearly as well as Chicago.

[@CARLWISE2008]

Was a smash in Memphis George Klein wHBQ

[@cindiloohoo]

This and "Things I'd Like To Say" were huge hit in Louisville, Ky.

[@miguelcolon221]

Izzy loves cool rock music 🎸 🎶 💘 Enjoy 1968.

[@eddiecharlie77]

It was a big hit on Chicago's WLS and WCFL, believe it was #1

[@t40onbass]

For two years this local Chicago group had nothing but regional success until this cracked the national top 40 in the spring of 1968. Story was that group members Ronnie Rice and Les Kummel wrote the tune in Ronnie's apartment. After they were done they saw a couple of girls walking by and asked them to listen to the song. Upon hearing it the girls began to cry. Seeing that response reassured them that they had a hit record.

[@gilbertgiles]

I believe that 💖

[@wmbrown6]

Both these were staples of WCBS-FM 101 in New York up to about a decade or two ago.

[@t40onbass]

Two releases later "Things I'd Like to Say" went to #1 on WLS in Chicago in December, 1968. The airtime it got in NYC helped it's stay on the national charts. By March of 1969 when it peaked in New York it was already played out on their home turf.

[@louishubbard8036]

nice ballad

[@robertbacon544]

MARY AND TONY❤..

[@betsyphillips2859]

To Chris H.