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• Make Someone Happy is the follow-up album by We Five and includes a good rendering of the oft-recorded “Let’s Get Together” that nearly made the Top 30. 

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We Five – Make Someone Happy (1967):  We Five is a folk-rock band from San Francisco that is one of the early entries in what became known as the San Francisco Sound.  Bandmembers are Mike Stewart (vocals, guitar, banjo, music arranger), Beverly Bivens (lead vocals), Pete Fullerton (bass, vocals), Bob Jones (6- and 12-string electric guitars, vocals), and Jerry Burgan (vocals, acoustic guitar).  The band was formed in 1964 and was managed by Frank Werber, who also manages the Kingston Trio; Mike Stewart is the brother of one of the members of the Trio, John Stewart.  The recordings made by We Five include both contemporary music and standards from the Great American Song Book. 

The band’s major hit is “You Were on My Mind” in 1965–1966, a song that was previously recorded by Ian & Sylvia and written by Sylvia Fricker of that group.  It became the title track of their first album You Were on My Mind (1965).  Make Someone Happy is the follow-up album by We Five and includes a good rendering of the oft-recorded “Let’s Get Together” that nearly made the Top 30.  Other modern songs on the album are “High Flying Bird” (previously recorded by the Jefferson Airplane), “Five Will Get You Ten”, “The First Time (Ever I Saw Your Face)” (Roberta Flack’s hit version of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” was released two years later, in 1969), and “Our Day Will Come”.  Three of the songs were written or co-written by bandleader Mike Stewart, “What Do I Do Now?”, “Poet”, and “What’s Goin’ On” (not the Marvin Gaye hit “What’s Going On”); one of his co-writers, Randy Steirling wrote “You Let a Love Burn Out”.  Standards included on Make Someone Happy include the title song “Make Someone Happy” (one of my wife Peggy Winfree’s favorite songs), “Somewhere”, and “The Inch Worm”.  We Five broke up shortly after making this album; but Mike Stewart reorganized We Five with a new lead singer, Debbie Graf Burgan, the wife of guitarist Jerry Burgan; and they released an additional two albums in 1969 and 1970.