You Were on My Mind - wikipedia You Were on My Mind `` You Were on My Mind '' Single by We Five from the album You Were on My Mind B - side `` Small World '' Released 1965 Recorded 1965 Genre Pop rock Length 2 : 39 Label A&M 770 Songwriter ( s ) Sylvia Fricker Producer ( s ) Frank Werber We Five singles chronology `` You Were on My Mind '' ( 1965 ) `` Let 's Get Together '' ( 1966 ) `` You Were on My Mind '' ( 1965 ) `` Let 's Get Together '' ( 1966 ) `` You Were on My Mind '' is a popular song written by Sylvia Fricker in 1962 in a bathtub in a suite at the Hotel Earle in Greenwich Village. She wrote it in the bathroom because `` it was the only place... the cockroaches would not go ''. It was originally performed by Fricker and her then husband - to - be Ian Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia and they recorded it for their 1964 album, Northern Journey. It was published in sheet form by M. Witmark & Sons of New York City in 1965. In 1965 the song was covered in an up - tempo version, with slightly altered lyrics and melody by the California pop quintet We Five. Their recording reached # 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1965 and topped the Billboard easy listening chart for five weeks. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 4 song of 1965. The performance by We Five is noteworthy for the gradual buildup in intensity, starting off somewhat flowing and gentle, increasing in intensity in the third stanza and remaining so through the fourth stanza. The fifth and final stanza starts off gently and concludes very intensely, ending with a series of guitar chords. In the United Kingdom Crispian St. Peters scored a number two hit with the song in 1966. This version was also released in the United States in 1967 and went to # 36 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was featured on his album, Follow Me... Ian and Sylvia re-recorded the song in 1972 with their band Great Speckled Bird, reaching # 4 on the Canadian easy listening chart. Other versions Other notable recordings include versions by : The Henchmen on their Dominion Records LP One UP ! circa 1964 The Chad Mitchell Trio covered the song on its 1965 album `` Typical American Boys ''. Barry McGuire covered the song on his 1965 album, Eve of Destruction : his version was a hit in Italy ( # 19 ) in 1966 Crispian St. Peters scored a number two hit in the UK with the song in 1966 Also in 1966 Equipe 84 had a # 2 hit in Italy with the rendering `` Io ho in mente te '' besting a rival version by Paul Anka Bobby Penn covered it in 1971 and went to # 51 on Billboard 's Hot Country Singles chart. Susanna Hoffs covered it on the soundtrack for the 1992 film Fathers and Sons Nanci Griffith on her 1998 album Other Voices, Too ( A Trip Back to Bountiful ). Serena Ryder included a version of this song on her 2006 album, If Your Memory Serves You Well On the 2016 album Colvin & Earle by Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle On the deluxe iTunes version of the 2016 album Good Grief by Lucius See also List of number - one adult contemporary singles of 1965 ( U.S. ) Los Angeles Times book review of Wounds to Bind, by We Five cofounder Jerry Burgan, which details the recording of `` You Were On My Mind '' http://www.latimes.com/tn-hbi-et-0904-wounds-to-bind-jerry-burgan-we-five-20140903-story.html References Jump up ^ Sylvia Fricker / Tyson interview in the film Greenwich Village : Music That Defined A Generation Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2002 ). Top Adult Contemporary : 1961 - 2001. Record Research. p. 255. Jump up ^ Billboard Year - End Hot 100 singles of 1965 Jump up ^ Betts, Graham ( 2004 ). Complete UK Hit Singles 1952 - 2004 ( 1st ed. ). London : Collins. p. 674. ISBN 0 - 00 - 717931 - 6. Jump up ^ Crispian St. Peters, `` You Were on My Mind '' US chart position Retrieved June 18, 2015. We Five Beverly Bivens Michael Stewart Jerry Burgan Pete Fullerton Bob Jones Debbie Burgan ' Studio albums You Were on My Mind Make Someone Happy The Return of We Five Catch the Wind Take Each Day as It Comes Singles `` You Were on My Mind '' `` Let 's Get Together '' `` My Favorite Things '' `` Walk On By '' `` Catch the Wind '' B - Sides `` Cast Your Fate to the Wind '' `` Somewhere Beyond the Sea '' `` Somewhere '' `` The First Time '' `` Here Comes the Sun '' `` Oh Lonesome Me '' Cover Songs `` Ca n't Help Falling in Love '' `` The Inch Worm '' `` Our Day Will Come '' `` Softly As I Leave You '' `` Soon It 's Gonna Rain '' `` Tonight '' Great Speckled Bird Ian Tyson Sylvia Tyson Amos Garrett Ken Kalmusky Bill Keith Ricky Marcus Buddy Cage N.D. 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Question: who sings when i woke up this morning you were on my mind
Answer: Ian & Sylvia