Here's the original version if you wanna listen and remember...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_HhwinPw-M
I also loved that song. I was born in the 1970s, not 1960s but my family had a German nanny at age 5 until my teens. She had these "photo album" catalogy-thingies filled with 45 speed records in them. This song was one of them and I loved listening to it as a young girl. This would be 1975.