Question: Which band wrote the song that was kept at #2 behind Mark Barkan's 1966 #1 hit?

Context articles: Pretty Flamingo
That's the Way Boys Are
The Hunger (band)
Ross Norman
I Don't Wanna Be a Loser
She's a Fool
Sylvain Cossette
The Writing on the Wall (Adam Wade song)
The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)
Paint It Black

"Pretty Flamingo" is a song written by Mark Barkan, which became a hit in 1966 when Manfred Mann's recording of it was released as a single.
 The single reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 5 May 1966.
 Manfred Mann's recording was a minor hit in the United States where it spent eight weeks on "Billboard" 's Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 29 during the week of August 6, 1966.
 It was also successful in Ireland, and was number one there for four weeks, keeping the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black" at number two.
"That's the Way Boys Are" is a song written by Mark Barkan and Ben Raleigh and initially sung by Lesley Gore and released in 1964 as a single and on Gore's 3rd album "Boys, Boys, Boys".
 The single reached #12 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, being kept out of the top 10 by songs by British Invasion bands The Beatles and The Dave Clark Five.
 The song was produced by Quincy Jones and arranged by Claus Ogerman.
The Hunger is an industrial rock band from Houston, Texas formed by brothers Jeff and Thomas Wilson along with Brian Albritton.
 During the initial year of putting the band together and working on new material the band wrote and independently released the single, "Shock" in 1991 which rose to the top of the dance charts.
 Industrial dance music ruled the charts in Europe along with strong ties to Chicago, Wax Trax Records, and Houston.
 Subsequent releases of "Cut the Skin" and "Shoot to Kill" gained national exposure on the dance charts and club scene.
 "Never Again" was self-released as a radio single and quickly rose to the top of Houston Radio Station's 93Q and 96.5 attracting the attention of independent record label Alpha International.
 Stephen Bogle produced the single of "Never Again".
 The band wrote and produced the album "Leave Me Alone" but due to the bankruptcy of Alpha International the record sat idle.
 It was released but there were no marketing efforts behind it.
 After the release of the album, the band sought out drummer Max Schuldberg and they played their first concert as a foursome opening for Peter Murphy at Southern Star Amphitheater.
 They played concerts in Texas as a foursome for two years.
 Along with the three founders and newest member Max Schuldberg, the band added producer Stephen Bogle as guitarist to complete the line up.
 The band recorded and produced "Grip" under their own start up label, Gut Records.
 "Grip" went on to sell 15,000 units with the help of a crafty rework of Bad Company's "Feel like Makin Love".
 Universal Records, at the time a brand new start up label, heard of the success of "Grip" and signed the band as their second artist ever.
 "Devil Thumbs a Ride", the 3rd album, had already been recorded and mastered and was about to be manufactured for another self-release when Universal stepped in to sign the band and release the album as-is.
 The Hunger had a hit song in 1996, "Vanishing Cream", from the "Devil Thumbs a Ride" CD, which received heavy airplay on rock stations and reached No. 4 on the Mainstream Rock charts.
 After two years of constant touring, the band finally stopped to record their second release with Universal Records, "Cinematic Superthug".
 After only moderate success with the single, "Moderation", the band asked to be and was granted a release from their contract from Universal Records.
 Two songs, "Shoot to Kill", also from "Devil Thumbs a Ride", and "If", from "Grip", reached No. 42 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play chart.
 The band has released six albums: two on Universal Records and four on independent labels. Former original drummer (1991-2003) Max Schuldberg (voted 2002's Best Drummer by the Houston Press Music Awards) parted with the band after the five albums in 2003 and moved to Los Angeles.
 Former guitarist and two time Grammy Award nominee (remixer, for his work with D.J. Cubanito) Stephen Bogle now Produces artists in the Metal, Electronic, and Pop genres.
 In late 2005 Stephen Bogle parted ways with the band, and Tim Huston was quickly picked up.
 With having only a few practices with the band they headed on tour with Ten Years.
 Tim Huston Stayed with the band from late '05 til 2013.
 "The lifestyle was just getting to overwhelming for me to handle".
 "If I would have stayed, who knows what would have happened to me.
 There was just no off button".
 In 2013, guitarist Raf Rivera joined the lineup, and the band is currently in the process of recording their first new material in over 8 years.
Ross Norman {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'MNZM', '4': "} (born 7 January 1959) is a former professional squash player from New Zealand.
 He is best remembered for winning the World Open in 1986, when he beat Jahangir Khan of Pakistan in the final 9-5, 9-7, 7-9, 9-1.
 The win marked the end of an unbeaten run for Khan that had stretched for over five years (the longest in the history of professional sport).
 Norman had been ranked the World No. 2 behind Khan for some time going into the match, but despite a single-minded determination to end his unbeaten run had been unable to end the total dominance that the Pakistani had held over the game.
 Norman had vowed: "One day Jahangir will be slightly off his game and I will get him."
 That day finally came in the final of squash's biggest tournament, which was held that year in Toulouse, France.
"I Don't Wanna Be a Loser" is a song written by Ben Raleigh and Mark Barkan and performed by Lesley Gore.
 It reached #12 on the adult contemporary chart and #37 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1964.
 It was featured on her 1964 album, "Boys, Boys, Boys".
"She's a Fool" is a song written by Mark Barkan and Ben Raleigh that was originally recorded by Lesley Gore in 1963.
 The song appeared as a single and on the album "Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts".
 The song was produced by Quincy Jones.
 The single reached #5 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and #26 on Billboard's R&B singles chart.
 It was Gore's second straight single to reach #5, following "Judy's Turn to Cry."
 It was also her third of four consecutive singles to reach the Top 5 to start her career, "It's My Party" reaching #1 before "Judy's Turn to Cry" and "You Don't Own Me" following "She's a Fool" and going to #2.
Sylvain Cossette (born May 8, 1963) is a French-Canadian singer-songwriter from Grand-Mère, Quebec (located in the Mauricie region).
 Sylvain was a founding member of the Quebec-based English language band Paradox in 1984, before becoming a French language solo artist by 1994.
 During his career he has sold over one million albums (12 Gold and Platinum), recorded thirty-two #1 hit songs and eight Number 1 albums, earned six Silver, Gold and Platinum Tickets, won 10 Quebec Felix Music Awards, six Socan awards and four Juno nominations, and performed in Canada and Europe in the hit stage musicals "Notre Dame De Paris" and "Dracula".
 Cossette's 2001 album "Rendez-vous" was certified Platinum by the CRIA in November 2002.
 His 2007 album "70s" (#1 Quebec, #2 Canada) is his first all English release and produced four Number 1 hit singles and two Number 1 hit videos.
 The album went Gold (50,000 CDs sold) in 27 days and Platinum (100,000 CDs sold) in 15 weeks.
 The 70s concert tour went Silver Ticket (25,000 tickets sold) in three months and Gold Ticket (50,000 tickets sold) within a year.
 On October 21, 2008, he released the album "70s Volume 2" and produced three Number 1 hit singles and one Number 1 hit video.
 The album went Gold (50,000 CDs sold) in 19 days and Platinum (100,000 CDs sold) in 11 weeks.
 On October 25, 2010, the album 70s Volume 3 was released and quickly went Gold.
 The 70s project has so far sold almost 400,000 albums, 150,000 concert tickets and been seen by over a 650,000 people at outdoor festivals.
 In September 2011 he launched his new one-year tour «The Best of the 70s».
 In October 2011, two compilation albums were released of his greatest French language hits.
 On October 1, 2012, he release his first original French language album in 12 years called "Le jour d'après" (4 number one hit songs) which he wrote, co-arranged and co-produced.
 His next album RETROSPECTIVE spawned a tour throughout French Canada in 2013-2014.
 In April 2014 he released an album "Les numérous 1" of his career #1 hit songs that he composed.
 A new trilogy project (album/photobiography book/tour) called ACCORDS was released in October 2014 and spawned three Number 1 hit singles followed by a tour throughout French Canada in 2015.
 In 2014-16 he was the creative force behind two children projects (albums and live shows): Lily et le Lutin & Pyjama Party.
 In 2017 he released his first instrumental album Café et Guitares in over 200 countries.
"The Writing on the Wall" is a 1961 song which was a Top 5 "Billboard" Hot 100 single for Adam Wade.
 The song was co-written by Mark Barkan, Sandy Baron and George Paxton.
 Wades B-side "Point Of No Return" also charted as #85 in Billboard.
"The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)" is a 1968 pop song, which was the theme song for the children’s television program "The Banana Splits Adventure Hour".
 Originally released by Decca Records on the album titled "We're the Banana Splits", the single release peaked at #96 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 on February 8, 1969.
 The writing of the song is credited to Mark Barkan and Ritchie Adams, who were the show's music directors.
 However, there are claims that the theme was written by jingle writer N. B. Winkless, Jr. of the Leo Burnett Agency but was credited to Adams and Barkan for contractual reasons.
"Paint It Black" (originally released as "Paint It, Black") is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, written by the songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and first released as a single on 6 May 1966.
 It was later included as the opening track to the US version of their 1966 album, "Aftermath".