Artist
The Lovin' Spoonful
The Lovin' Spoonful is a rock artist from New York, USA formed in 1964. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · New York, USA · Best rock albums
- 26
- Releases
- 1965–2025
- Active years
- 1964
- Formed
Artist
The Lovin' Spoonful is a rock artist from New York, USA formed in 1964. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · New York, USA · Best rock albums
Most popular
Daydream
1966 · 17 tracks
Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful
1966
Revelation Revolution '69
1969
Everything Playing
1967
Do You Believe in Magic
1965
Essential Classics, Vol. 521: The Lovin' Spoonful
2025
Kicks (Live)
2024
Live On TV 1965-67
2020
A Real Spoonful of The Lovin Spoonful
2017
What's Up, Tiger Lily
2011
Summer In The City - The Collection
2010
What's Up Tiger Lily/You're A Big Boy Now
2009
Very Best Of The Lovin' Spoonful
2004
Platinum & Gold Collection
2003
The Greatest Hits
2000
Gold: Greatest Hits
1993
Anthology
1990
Best of the Lovin' Spoonful
1967
Do You Believe in Magic / Daydream
1965
You Didn't Have to Be so Nice
Single · 2023
Jug Band Music
Single · 2023
Nashville Cats
Single · 2023
Rain on the Roof
Single · 2023
Six O'Clock
Single · 2023
Only Pretty What A Pity (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 15, 1967)
Single · 2021
She Is Still A Mystery (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 15, 1967)
Single · 2021
The Lovin' Spoonful is an American rock band of the 1960s, named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. When asked about his band, leader John Sebastian said it sounded like a combination of "Mississippi John Hurt and Chuck Berry," prompting his friend, Fritz Richmond, to suggest the name "Lovin' Spoonful" from a line in Hurt's song, "Coffee Blues". The band had its roots in the folk music scene based in the Greenwich Village section of lower Manhattan during the early 1960s. Sebastian, who grew up in contact with music and musicians, was the son of a much-recorded and highly technically accomplished classical harmonica player. He had reached maturity toward the end of the American folk music revival that spanned from the 1950s to the early 1960s. Sebastian was joined in the Spoonful by guitarist Zal Yanovsky from a bohemian folk group called The Mugwumps, playing local coffee houses and small clubs (two other members, Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty, would later form half of the Mamas & the Papas). Drummer-vocalist Joe Butler and bassist Steve Boone rounded out the group. The group made its first recordings for Elektra Records in early 1965, and agreed in principle to sign a lon…