The song was recorded by The Quotations - I think in 1961. My Rhino Doo Wop Box says songwriters were James Van Heusen and Johnny Burke. I wondered if that meant Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke, because it sure didn't sould like the Van Heusen-Burk songs I knew.
This page (click) has the answer:Johnny Burke (1908 – 1964) was one of the greatest popular song lyricists. One of the many web sites for Burke tells us that “Bing Crosby claimed he owed much of his success to a lyricist he dubbed ‘the Poet.’ Crosby said, ‘one of the best things that ever happened to me was a 145-pound leprechaun named Johnny Burke.’” For the movie Road to Morocco (1942) he wrote the lyrics to three great songs – Polka Dots and Moonbeams, Moonlight Becomes You, and Imagination. This last song begins:
So, it's a Doo-Wop version of a song from the 1942 Hope-Crosby-Lamour movie, Road to Morocco.
Imagination is funny,
It makes a rainy day sunny,
Makes a bee think of honey,
Just as I think of you.
Imagination is crazy,
Your whole perspective gets hazy,
Starts you asking a daisy
“What to do? What to do?”
Have you ever felt a gentle touch
And then a kiss, and then, and then
Find it’s only your imagination again?
Oh, well.
-Joe-