Grass Roots U.S. Singles Discography

Songs which made the Billboard Top 50 are in bold print
# Title A Side/B Side Label & Number Year Peak Notes
1 Mr. Jones (The Ballad Of A Thin Man)/You're A Lonely Girl (Dunhill 4013) 1965 121  
2 Where Were You When I Needed You/These Are Bad Times (Dunhill 4029) 1966 28  
3 Only When You're Lonely/This Is What I Was Made For (Dunhill 4043) 1966 96  
4 Tip Of My Tongue/Look Out Girl (Dunhill 4053) 1967 -  
5 Let's Live For Today/Depressed Feeling (Dunhill 4084) 1967 8  
6 Things I Should Have Said/Tip Of My Tongue (Dunhill 4094) 1967 23  
7 Wake Up Wake Up/No Exit (Dunhill 4105) 1967 68  
8 A Melody For You/Hey Friend (Dunhill 4122) 1968 123 This was the first single released after the group changed their name to "The Grassroots". It appears that way on singles 8 thru 12.
9 Feelings/Here's Where You Belong (Dunhill 4129) 1968 -  
10 Midnight Confessions/Who Will You Be Tomorrow (Dunhill 4144) 1968 5  
11 Bella Linda/Hot Bright Lights (Dunhill 4162) 1969 28  
12 Melody For You/All Good Things Come To An End (Dunhill) 1969 -  
13 Lovin' Things/You and Love Are All The Same (Dunhill 4180) 1969 49 Name changed back to "The Grass Roots" from this single on.
14 The River Is Wide/(You Gotta) Live For Love (Dunhill 4187) 1969 31  
15 I'd Wait A Million Years/Fly Me To Havana (Dunhill 4198) 1969 15 Song was titled "I'd Wait A Million Years" on the single only. It was called "Wait A Million Years" on all four of its LP appearances.
16 Heaven Knows/Don't Remind Me (Dunhill 4217) 1969 24  
17 Walking Through The Country/Truck Drivin' Man (Dunhill 4227) 1970 44  
18 Baby Hold On/Get It Together (Dunhill 4237) 1970 35 The flip side was the theme song for a short-lived ABC-TV show of the same name; the LP version of the flip on More Golden Grass has additional overdubbed vocals
19 Come On and Say It/Something's Comin' Over Me (Dunhill 4249) 1970 61  
20 Temptation Eyes/Keepin' Me Down (Dunhill 4263) 1970 15 The single "mix" of "TE" has never been on LP or CD. Rob is double- or triple-tracked on the chorus to make it sound as if the group is singing
21 Sooner Or Later/I Can Turn Off The Rain (Dunhill 4279) 1971 9  
22 Two Divided By Love/Let It Go (Dunhill 4289) 1971 16  
23 Glory Bound/Only One (Dunhill 4302) 1972 34  
24 The Runway/Move Along (Dunhill 4316) 1972 39  
25 Anyway The Wind Blows/Monday Love (Dunhill 4325) 1972 107 The single version of this song has an overdubbed electric guitar line as well as additional overdubbed group vocals. The mix is also slightly different from the album version. The version that appears on Rhino's "Anthology" is the original album mix.
26 Love Is What You Make It/Someone To Love (Dunhill 4335) 1973 55  
27 Where There's Smoke There's Fire/Look But Don't Touch (Dunhill 4345) 1973 -  
28 We Can't Dance To Your Music/Look But Don't Touch (Dunhill 4371) 1973 -  
29 Stealin' Love (In The Night)/We Almost Made It Together [Dunhill 5006] 1974 -  
30 Mamacita/The Last Time Around [Haven/Capitol 7015] 1975 71 Almost a big comeback for the Roots, but it was banned by many radio stations because of the line "She's so sweet you could eat her". The song was re-serviced with a replacement line "There ain't nobody sweeter", but by then the stations that WERE playing it had already dropped it
31 Naked Man/Nothing Good Comes Easy [Haven/Capitol 7021] 1975 -  
32 Out In The Open/Optical Illusion [Haven 802] 1976 - Released as by "Rob Grill and the Grass Roots"; interestingly, the chorus was sung by a studio singer because the track was cut in too high a key and Grill couldn't hit the notes!
33 Here Comes That Feeling Again/Temptation Eyes [MCA 52058] 1982 - ABC/Dunhill had folded by this time, but since it had been absorbed by MCA records, in a sense the Grass Roots were back "home"
34 She Don't Know Me/Keep On Burning [MCA 52104] 1982 - The Grass Roots recorded it first, with an accurate eye for the market of the time, but it became the first hit for Bon Jovi
35 Powers of the Night/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [MCA xxxxxxxxxx] 1983 - xxxxx
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