Like to Get to Know You

"Like to Get to Know You"
Single by Spanky and Our Gang
from the album Like to Get to Know You
B-side"Three Ways from Tomorrow"
ReleasedMarch 1968
Recorded1968
GenreSunshine pop, blue-eyed soul
LengthSingle: 3:19
Album: 2:15 (single), 0:59 (coda)
LabelMercury
Songwriter(s)Stuart Scharf
Producer(s)Bob Dorough
Stuart Scharf
Spanky and Our Gang singles chronology
"Sunday Mornin'"
(1968)
"Like to Get to Know You"
(1968)
"Give a Damn"
(1968)

"Like to Get to Know You" is a 1968 song from Spanky and Our Gang. Written by Stuart Scharf, the song debuted at No. 71 on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 20, 1968 and peaked at No. 17 on June 8, 1968.[1][2][3] It became a minor hit on the Billboard Easy Listening chart at the same time, eventually rising to No. 24 the same week it peaked on the Hot 100.[4] In Canada, the song reached No. 5 on the RPM Magazine charts.[5] On the album of the same name, the song is broken into two parts: the full vocal, and a coda that echoes the chorus and conversation from the song.

  1. ^ Billboard Hot 100, Week of April 20, 1968 – Billboard.com. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
  2. ^ Spanky And Our Gang, Billboard Hot 100 – Billboard.com. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
  3. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 225.
  5. ^ "Item Display - RPM". Library and Archives Canada. June 15, 1968. Retrieved January 4, 2018.