"If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" is a song written by British arranger John Cameron and initially recorded by Swedish pop band Blond (Tages) under the title "(I Will Bring You) Flowers in the Morning" for their album The Lilac Years (1969).

British producer George Martin heard the song when Henriksson played Blond's album The Lilac Years for him and decided that Cilla Black would record it.

[1] This success brought some attention to Cameron, and in 1966 he signed a contract with publishers KPM Music, after which he was tasked to compose a song, which ended up being "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind".

Meanwhile, vocalist Tommy Blom of Swedish pop band Tages quit for a solo career at the end of August 1968,[5] prompting the remaining members to initially try finding a replacement for him before settling on continuing performing as a quartet.

[9] Although the intention was for Tages to record original material penned by their bassist Göran Lagerberg and Henriksson together with Kathe Green or Adrian Moar, the band lacked two songs for a full-length 12-track LP.

[8] Being a largely orchestrated baroque pop song, the involvement of Tages' guitarists Anders Töpel and Danne Larsson were minimal, with the two providing only sparse, brief staccato strums.

[10][nb 4] The single was not heavily promoted and thus failed to chart in the United Kingdom upon release,[13] leading to the song's belated reviews primarily coming from Swedish newspapers and their assesments of The Lilac Years LP in October 1969.

The staff reviewer for Svenska Dagbladet singles out "Flowers In The Morning" as one of the album's highlights, stating that it "holds itself against the high quality" of the otherwise self-penned numbers, finding the organ to sound "almost a bit ethereal".

[16] Dagens Nyheter's reviewer was also enthusiastic over the album's release but had mixed opinions regarding Lagerberg's vocal performance, particularly on the songs "Deep Inside my Heart" and "Flowers in the Morning", where he had to "strain his voice" to achieve the high notes required.

Throughout the first months of 1969, British singer Cilla Black was experiencing commercial success with the singles "Surround Yourself with Sorrow" and "Conversations", both of which managed to reach the top-10 of the Record Retailer chart.

[24] The string quartet was conducted and arranged by former Manfred Mann-guitarist Mike Vickers and Martin, in addition to producing, also acted as a session musician playing harpsichord.

[20] In a blind date for Melody Maker, soul singer Madeline Bell wrote that "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" was a "nice, gentle record that only she [Black] could get away with now".

[24] Peter Jones at Record Mirror writes that the single has an almost "classical start" to it, while offering a "quiet, gradual buildup" before ending up in a "hot-footed, wide ranged chorus".

[36] In preparation for it, Fältskog spend roughly 4 years procuring a collection of primarily obscure vinyl records in order to assist in the creation of the album, according to The Guardian.

[42] Although Fältskog and Blond (during their time as Tages) had shared the same bill at concerts during the late 1960s,[43] she instead based her version of "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" on the cover by Black.

[40] As with the rest of the album, "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" was produced by Fältskog together with musicians Anders Neglin and Dan Strömkvist, who also conducted the string arrangement and performed drums, respectively.

[52][53] In his review for the single, Dan Backman of Svenska Dagbladet writes that "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" remained "faithful to the Cilla Black version" and the Strömkvist's drum performance was inspired by Ringo Starr.

[45] Anders Larsson, writing for Aftonbladet, finds traces of Lennon–McCartney in the track but believes that Fältskog never puts personal emphasis on the song, instead performing it as an "experienced Schlager number".