Topic: The Lovin' Spoonful

Almost 50 years after Bob Dylan wrote "Blowin' in the Wind," it's one of those songs that you're pretty sure you know. . You've heard Peter, Paul...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated to preserving the history and legacy of rock and roll music. On April 4 , 2009, the Hall of Fame inducted Metallica , Run DMC , Bobby Womack, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Wanda ...
Middle of the 60?s, Beatles andRolling Stones on top and here come ? ? Most of us did. Then there wasSteve Boone, no relation to Pat or Daniel that I know of, playing bass. Then it was hit after hit until Boone and ...

Summer in the City, Songs

Those songs that no matter when you hear them bring your imaginationback to those long, hot summer days of your youth when you didn't have a carein the world. For me, one of the first things I used to doto celebrate ...
You can baffle and amuse a group of dining guests by defining each item on the dinner menu in riddle form. " Diners would be left to connect the 1960s song with the band it was from, The Lovin' Spoonful, to know that ...

The Lovin Spoonful

The original members were John Sebastian (b. Formed in 1965 in New York City's Greenwich Village, the Lovin' Spoonful crafted a "good-time" sound and cartoonish image. Chief songwriter Sebastian (lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, and Autoharp) and Yanovsky (lead guitar) came from ...

Zal Yanovsky

), was the extroverted lead guitarist of the popular 1960s rock group the Lovin' Spoonful, whose hits included "Do You Believe in Magic" (1965) and "Summer in the City" (1966). The Lovin' Spoonful was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

John Sebastian

Britannica provides coverage of " Aspects of the topic John Sebastian are discussed in the following places at Britannica. 1966), and "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? " (1966)-and the uncharacteristically boisterous "Summer in the City" (1966). Chief songwriter Sebastian ...

Editor's Picks: Top Summer Songs

Enjoy this week's Editorial favorites: In fact, every time the word "summer" pops into my head it's quickly followed by the chorus to Sublime's Doin' Time/Summertime: "summertiiiiime and the livin's easy.... " And it never fails to put ...

Songs to Put a Spring in Your Step

A Spring Symphony We all know that oldies artists loved the summertime, but what does the discriminating listener do when winter's over and a new beginning is just, well, beginning? this is the sound of waking up refreshed and ready. The ...