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"That Same Old Feeling" was composed by John Macleod and Tony Macaulay which in 1970 was a Top Ten UK hit for Pickettywitch, an English band fronted by Polly Brown. In the US the Pickettywitch single was released with a rival version by The Fortunes, both versions scoring well-enough regionally to reach the Top 70 of the Hot 100, the national hit parade maintained by Billboard magazine.

The original recording of the song was by The Foundations being featured on the group's final album Digging the Foundations issued in May 1969: like the group's previous three albums Digging the Foundations was produced by John Macleod and Tony Macaulay, consisting largely of their compositions. The Foundations' original version of the song introduced the song's standard chorus but its verses were radically different - musically and lyrically - from those of the later better-known versions.

The song's co-writer John Macleod had begun to record Pickettywitch for Pye Records in the summer of 1969, the band's debut single "You Got Me So I Don't Know" being released 25 July 1969: for their second release Macleod had the band record "That Same Old Feeling" with a resultant #5 hit spending five weeks in the Top Ten in March and April 1970: the track also afforded Pickettywitch a hit in Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa with respective chart peaks of #6, #7 and #17.

The UK success of "That Same Old Feeling" by Pickettywitch had prompted The Fortunes to press for the release of their own version as a single for the US market: Coca-Cola and The Fortunes' label United Artists were unable to come to terms on a US single release - although United Artists would give single release to the track in other territories - and by the time the US single release of The Fortunes' "That Same Old Feeling" by World Pacific Records had been negotiated, Janus Records had picked up the Pickettywitch version for US release, with the US singles of "That Same Old Feeling" by both The Fortunes and Pickettywitch being issued in April 1970. Both versions debuted on the Hot 100 in Billboard magazine dated 23 May 1970, The Fortunes' at #93 and Pickettywitch at #98, and neither version would become a major national hit, respective peaks being #62 for The Fortunes and #67 for Pickettywitch, with the Pickettywitch version having a longer chart tenure than The Fortunes': twelve weeks as opposed to eight. Pickettywitch's single also crossed to the Adult Contemporary singles chart, reaching #34 there, while the Fortunes' single did not.

Both versions of "That Same Old Feeling" fared better on the Top 100 Singles chart in Cashbox magazine, The Fortunes there peaking at #59 while Pickettywitch was there afforded a Top 40 hit as their version peaked at #40 in the issue of Cashbox dated 25 July 1970.

In Canada both the version of "That Same Old Feeling" by Pickettywitch - released there by Pye - and that by The Fortunes - Canadian release on United Artists - charted concurrently on the RPM100 national hit parade, with respective peaks of #36 and #40.

Nice old song, Polly Brown's voice made the song.

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Eddy EVB ‪@thesquaredisc‬