This is an early example of a Lennon-McCartney song without Lennon. We all know that a lot of the songs were written by one or the other and not as a joint effort.

Tom observes that “Peter and Gordon . . . sing [it] as if Merseybeat never happened. Pop drifts back to its early 60s status quo.” Perhaps for Brits it did, but in the US we’d never heard anything like it before, and it was actually exciting–organ and all. (Hammond? Sounds more like a Farfisa to me. I could be wrong.)

Still, in retrospect, the suggestion that it might be a throwback (in the overall scheme of things) seems conceivable. But perhaps it’s really a matter of “back to the future.” By 1970, McCartney would be showing just what he could do without Lennon–only the results were rarely up to the standard of “World Without Love.”