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The Lovin' Spoonful were an American pop/rock band originally active from 1965 to 1969.With a foot each in the folk-rock and pop music worlds, they were probably the era's biggest link (save for The Mamas & the Papas) between the early-'60s Greenwich Village folk revival scene and the late-decade Laurel Canyon scene. During their brief heyday, the band found success with five studio albums, numerous hit singles, and even a couple of film soundtracks, recording song scores for Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? and Francis Ford Coppola's You're a Big Boy Now. And their deceptively simple but layered sound was quietly influential on their peers; Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson have said that the Spoonful's music inspired parts of Revolver and Pet Sounds. |
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Age-Progression Song: From "Darling, Be Home Soon": |
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Money Song |
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Money Song: The laid back "Money": |
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Pie in the Face |
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Pie in the Face: Referenced in "Daydream": |
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Genre Roulette |
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Genre Roulette: Their music incorporates elements of folk, country, blues rock, baroque pop, psychedelic rock, and even old-fashioned Tin Pan Alley pop. |
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Putting the Band Back Together |
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Putting the Band Back Together: The original lineup of Sebastian, Yanovsky, Boone, and Butler reunited for a one-off 1979 concert at a Catskills resort, which was subsequently incorporated into Paul Simon's film One-Trick Pony. They got together once more in 2000, for the group's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Boone, Butler, and Yester, assisted by various other musicians, toured under the Lovin' Spoonful name in the '90s. |
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Bungled Suicide |
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Bungled Suicide: Played for Laughs in "Pow!": |
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Large Ham |
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Large Ham: Zal Yanovksy was well known for his stage antics. |
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Something Blues |
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Something Blues: "Fishin' Blues", "Nite Owl Blues", "Day Blues" |
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Repurposed Pop Song |
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Repurposed Pop Song: "Do You Believe in Magic?" was often been used as a commercial jingle, most notably for McDonald's in the '90s. |
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Questioning Title?: "Do You Believe in Magic?" and "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?" |
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Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: In the chorus to "Summer in the City" the line "Despite the heat it'll be all right" is sung with the first syllable of "despite" stressed, to keep the rhythm going. |
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Heavy Meta |
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Heavy Meta: A number of their songs revolve around music. "Do You Believe in Magic" is about the power of music in general. "Nashville Cats" is about Country Music. And "Jug Band Music" is about Exactly What It Says on the Tin. |
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Plucky Comic Relief |
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Plucky Comic Relief: Yanovsky was this in the band's live shows and TV appearances with his goofy mannerisms. |
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Unwanted Glasses Plot: "4 Eyes" is about a kid getting picked on because of his nerd glasses. |
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The Band Minus the Face |
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The Band Minus the Face: They continued on without John Sebastian, but didn't last long. Joe Butler, Steve Boone, and Jerry Yester later restarted the band in 1991, again without Sebastian. |
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Cover Version: Their first album includes covers of several traditional blues and folk tunes, as well as The Ronettes' "You Baby" and Fred Neil's "Other Side of This Life". |
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Piano Drop |
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Piano Drop: Referenced in "Pow!" |
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In the Style of: "Pow!", from the What's Up, Tiger Lily? soundtrack, is a comedic story-song that's very reminiscent of country singer Roger Miller. |
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The X of Y |
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The X of Y: Album title Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful. |
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Vocal Tag Team |
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Vocal Tag Team: While John Sebastian was the primary vocalist and songwriter (and consequently sang on the lion's share of the group's hit singles), all of the other members performed lead vocal duties at various times. Especially since Sebastian wasn't even on their last album. |
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Titled After the Song: While urban legend sometimes has it that the band's name is a sly reference to either heroin or semen, it actually derives from a lyric in the song "Coffee Blues" by Mississippi John Hurt. (That Hurt himself intended the phrase as a double entendre is, of course, not outside the realm of possibility.) |
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