The Will-O-Bees were an American folk rock and sunshine pop trio in the 1960s comprising Janet Blossom, Steven Porter, and Robert Merchanthouse (born c.1946, Indiana, died 2019).
The Will-O-Bees' third single, "It's Not Easy", another Mann-Weil composition produced by Traut, was their only chart success, reaching #95 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1968.
[2][3][4] "It's Not Easy" was originally written for the Righteous Brothers, and had first been recorded in London in 1966 by Australian pop singer Normie Rowe; his version was a chart hit in Australia and New Zealand.
These included the Mann-Weil songs "Make Your Own Kind of Music" and "It's Getting Better", which were both later recorded more successfully by Mama Cass Elliot.
[3] The Will-O-Bees also recorded and released the theme song of the unsuccessful TV sitcom The Ugliest Girl in Town, written by Howard Greenfield and Helen Miller.