This was the last album on which the band was billed as The Young Rascals; their next album,
Once Upon a Dream, would be credited to simply The Rascals. The album began the Rascals' first forays into the psychedelic genre that they would explore further on
Once Upon a Dream. Eight of
Groovins eleven songs were issued by Atlantic Records as single
A- or B-sides. The three songs specific to the album are "Find Somebody", "I Don't Love You Anymore", and the Rascals'
cover of "
A Place in the Sun". "If You Knew", upon its initial release as the B-side of the single "
I've Been Lonely Too Long", was jointly credited to all the Rascals' members; the writing credit was changed upon the album's release. Atlantic Records was at first reluctant to release the title song as a single, but its popularity was such that Italian and Spanish versions were released on different sides of a subsequent single.
Flutist Hubert Laws is featured in a sessions role on the album's final track, "It's Love".
Booker T. & the MG's took a cover of "Groovin to the charts later in 1967 and the song "
You Better Run" was later covered by
Pat Benatar and was a hit for her in 1980. ==Cover design==