Highly derivative, highly wonderful, pure pop and none the worse for that, Wallinger Karl Edmond De Vere wrote and recorded some great pop songs.......and I will not hear better today unless I listen to "Is it Like Today?" or even "Way Down Now"....
https://youtu.be/udCaa-Ju3dk
Scott Walker's version is great, but it's Tim Hardin's song, and you can feel it with him singing it.
Only lived to 39.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSu44UMcB8c