Delfonics – Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time)

Welcome to the Powerpop.blog! I thought about renaming it to PowerKink.blog lately… but we are back to normal business again. I’m sad because there are so many more Kinks songs to explore. I have one ready to go soon. Anyway…

I’ve always liked this song and even more when it was on the Jackie Brown soundtrack. Not only on the soundtrack but it became part of the plot. Jackie Brown is one of my top Quentin Tarantino movies. Pam Grier is super (or any glorious adjective you can think of) in that movie. The song is a quintessential date song.

Thom Bell, one of the pioneers of the Philadelphia soul sound, co-wrote and produced the song along with William Hart. Bell’s orchestral arrangements and Hart’s falsetto vocals created a great sound soul sound. It became one of the group’s most successful hits and is widely regarded as an example of early Philadelphia soul sound.

A little history on them. Thom Bell also produced for The Stylistics, Chubby Checker, and Elton John. But his main focus was the Philly sound, which is soul music characterized by funk influences and lush instrumental arrangements.

The Delfonics were known as The Five Guys and played their own instruments. Bell cut them down to a trio and made them a vocal group, with Bell playing most of the instruments himself. He recorded three albums with the group and this song was their biggest hit. Bell then joined Philadelphia International Records, run by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, where he worked with The Stylistics.

Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time) peaked at #10 in the Billboard 100, #12 in Canada, and #22 in the UK  in 1970. Their first hit was La-La Means I Love You which charted in 1968 and was a top ten hit as well.

Great song from a great period.

I don’t care much about awards but Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time) won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1971.

Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time)

I gave my heart and soul to you, girl
Didn’t I do it baby, didn’t I do it baby

Gave you the love you never knew, girl
Didn’t I do it baby, didn’t I do it baby

I’ve tried so many times and that’s no lie
It seems to make you laugh each time I cry

Didn’t I blow your mind this time, didn’t I
Didn’t I blow your mind this time, didn’t I
Listen

I thought that heart of yours was true, girl
Now didn’t I think it baby, didn’t I think it baby

But this time I’m really leavin’ you, girl
Hope you know it baby, hope you know it baby

Ten times or more, yes, I’ve walked out that door
Get this into your head, there’ll be no more

Didn’t I blow your mind this time, didn’t I
Didn’t I blow your mind this time, didn’t I

Didn’t I do it baby, didn’t I do it baby
Didn’t I do it baby, didn’t I do it baby

Ten times or more, yes, I’ve walked out that door
Get this into your head, there’ll be no more

Didn’t I blow your mind this time, didn’t I
Didn’t I blow your mind this time, didn’t I
I got to live you, baby

Didn’t I blow your mind this time, didn’t I
Didn’t I blow your mind this time, didn’t I

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Author: Badfinger (Max)

Power Pop fan, Baseball, Beatles, Alternative music, old movies, and tv show fan. Also anything to do with pop culture in the 60s and 70s... I'm also a songwriter, bass and guitar player. Not the slightest bit interested in politics at all.

48 thoughts on “Delfonics – Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time)”

  3. My dad was in the music business when I was in kindergarten through 2nd grade & he brought a lot of music home then. One of his favorite groups was the Delfonics who were the 1st successful ‘Philly Soul’ group that Gamble & Huff worked with. I loved that music. They were great!

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    2. Yep, Tarantino is brilliant at song placement. I really like it when the right song adds to a movie/TV show, but on the diss side, some song choices jar with the story line The right ones just sync perfectly.

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      1. You’re welcome. Yes, I did like Jackie Brown. What a cast! I loved Robert Forster in this. DeNiro and Jackson’s sense of humor shines through. Fonda played the perfect … tease. Funny that Keaton was more or less a minor character in it. What did you like about the movie best?

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      2. I loved Fonda in this one. Oh what did I like best about it? Miss Pam Grier…she should have been on my crushes list. I also like the guy that played Max… their “romance” was done right…I wish Max would have gone with her at the end….this Max would have!

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  13. Classic 70s soul. Never seen the movie, but then there aren’t many I’ve seen that were made since 1980! I’m exaggerating a bit, but you could say I’m stuck in the past.

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    1. Oh…stuck in the past? I work in IT…so I have a TV Show and Movie server in our house. Right now I’ve been watching Green Acres, Gunsmoke, Barney Miller and last night we watched some old movies…so our house…it’s always 1975…so don’t feel alone. I hardly ever watch new stuff.

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      2. I’m 57 so I’m not too far behind…I just like the writing more back then… a show like Barney Miller was written so well.

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      3. Oh yeah, so great, it’s one of my favorites too. I like a lot of the same ones you’ve mentioned on here before. Bob Newhart and WKRP, The White Shadow. My mother always liked Green Acres, and I remember watching it with her. What a wacky show. Good memories.

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  14. All things must pass, even a great Kinks series! 🙂

    I enjoyed the posts and was introduced to many Kinks songs I hadn’t known. I’m still planning to listen to some of their albums in their entirety. Thus far, I’ve done that with “Something Else By the Kinks.” Obviously, it’s only one, but at least it’s a start.

    Based on what I’ve heard, I generally dig the Philly soul sound, even though it’s on the lush side. But many of the songs are simply beautiful. The name The Delfonics immediately rang a bell. I turns out I knew “La-La Means I Love You” but not “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time),” which is nice as well!

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    1. Yea the Kinks thing was a lot of fun but it was odd not commenting…I finally got to yesteryday lol.
      Yea I love these old soul songs…I have something on a few of them on Sunday.

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  16. Never seen the film but The Delfonics singles from 1968 through 1972 were top notch soul and Thom Bell (and later Philly records generally) were pure class. I wouldnt call this my fave track from them, that would be La La Means I Love You, When You Get Right Down To It or Ready Or Not.

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