Artist:The Lovin' Spoonful
Song:Do You Believe In Magic?
Album:Anthology
The Lovin' Spoonful were very popular in the mid 60s and were instrumental in ushering in folk rock. They were probably a little more pop than folk and they were fun to listen to. The group was led by singer songwriter John Sebastian and of course Sebastian playing his autoharp was the main visual memory of the group. He formed The Lovin' Spoonful with Zal Yanofsky in 1965. Both guys hung around the Greenwich village folk scene of the mid 60s. They brought in Steve Boone on bass and Joe Butler on drums. They signed with Kama Sutra Records and Sebastian's Do You Believe In Magic was the first of many hits between 1965-67. The decline of the group started when Boone & Yanovsky were busted for marijuana in California and turned informer. That didn't go over well with the counter culture crowd. Then Yanovsky left the group. Sebastian left The Lovin' Spoonful in 1968 and had some solo success. That's what really killed the group though they have reunited occasionally over the years. This Rhino comp has all their hits. Here's The Lovin' Spoonful performing Do You Believe In Magic? on The Ed Sullivan Show.
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