Beverly Bivens
We Five's first single, from their debut album of the same name, was a reworked version of Sylvia Tyson's song "You Were On My Mind". It became one of the first folk-rock hits, reaching number three in the "Billboard" "Hot 100" in August 1965. Tyson (then Sylvia Fricker) says that she was unaware that her song had been covered until she heard We Five's version on a car radio while driving on Highway 101 in California. One consequence of We Five's success was that Tyson's song, which, until then, had been unavailable in sheet form, was published by Witmark of New York, with a photograph of Bivens and We Five on the cover. However, with the so-called "British invasion" at its height, We Five's recording had only limited international success, having been covered reluctantly, though successfully, in Britain by Crispian St. Peters.
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The group was founded in Poznań in 1999 by Hans (Przemysław Frencel) and Deep (Paweł Paczkowski). In 2000 they published illegal album called "Najwyższa instancja". In 2002 Deep left the group and stopped his activities for two years. On September 15, 2003 UMC Records published their first legal album called "P-Ń VI". Deep didn't take part in the recording, but the album was published as 52 Dębiec (not as solo of Hans). On the spring of 2004 Deep published illegal album called "We mnie", recorded in three months using home methods. On January 1, 2006 Hans became artistic director of UMC Records, but he resigned after one year. In that time he published Deep's and Bobik's album "Refleksje". On June 2007 the group was back in full squad and informed about the recording of new album called "Deep Hans". It was out on February 6, 2008. On June 2, 2008 520 special, manually numered copies were put up for sale (number 52 was given on a charity auction). The gain was used to record the next album.