The Lovin' Spoonful discography

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The Lovin' Spoonful discography
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The Lovin' Spoonful in 1965
Studio albums5
Live albums1
Compilation albums20
EPs8
Singles19
Soundtrack albums2

The Lovin' Spoonful is an American folk-rock band which was originally active between 1964 and 1968. [1] During their original tenure, they released five studio albums, two soundtrack albums, four compilation albums, and fourteen singles in the United States. Between October 1965 and January 1967, their first-seven singles reached the Top Ten in the United States on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart, [2] [3] and the magazine's 1966 end-of-year issue ranked the group as that year's third-best-performing singles artist, after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. [4] [5] [nb 1] Though the Lovin' Spoonful achieved success during the transition to the album era, they and their label remained focused on the singles market; [7] the group's 1966 album Daydream was their only studio album to break the Top Ten of the Billboard Top LPs chart, [8] and its performance was bested only by a 1967 compilation album, The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful , [8] which RIAA certified for gold that year. [9] The Lovin' Spoonful saw diminished success in 1967, [10] when only two of their singles entered the top twenty in the U.S. [3] [11] Following further chart disappointments, [12] the group disbanded in 1968. [13] [nb 2]

Contents

The Lovin' Spoonful's albums and singles were originally issued by Kama Sutra Records in the United States and by Pye International Records in the United Kingdom. [18] [19] The band was not directly signed to Kama Sutra but was instead signed to Koppelman-Rubin, an entertainment company, [20] which negotiated a deal with the label in June 1965. [14] As part of the arrangement, MGM Records distributed the records, which Kama Sutra released on its label for Koppelman-Rubin. [20] [nb 3] MGM's contract with Kama Sutra expired in 1967, and Kama Sutra's leadership founded Buddah Records (later renamed Buddha), transferring their five-year deal with the Lovin' Spoonful in the process. [22] [23] [nb 4] In 2023, John Sebastian, the Lovin' Spoonful's primary songwriter, sold the publishing and artist royalties rights for all of his compositions to AMR Songs, an American catalog marketing company. [27]

The Lovin' Spoonful's music has been regularly collected on compilation albums. [28] In the years after the band's breakup, many of their original multi-track master-tapes were lost and presumed destroyed. [29] [30] [nb 5] The group's earliest CD reissues were instead made from the best available stereo masters, [30] leaving the material sounding substandard when compared to reissues of other 1960s music. [32] In 2000, after the first-generation master-tapes were rediscovered, Buddha issued Greatest Hits , which was the first digital remaster of the band's material. [28] [33] BMG Heritage Records, a reissue division of Sony BMG, [34] issued digital remasters of the band's first four studio albums on CD in 2002 and 2003, [35] along with previously unreleased bonus material. [36]

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums with selected chart positions
YearTitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
U.S. releaseU.K. release US
[3] 		CAN
[37] [upper-alpha 1] 		FIN
[40] 		NOR
[41] 		UK
[42]
1965 Do You Believe in Magic 32————
1966 Daydream
  • Released: March 1966 [8]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KLP/KLPS-8051)
  • Released: April 29, 1966 [44]
  • Label: Pye International Records (NPL.28078)
10—9—8
Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful
  • Released: November 1966 [45]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KLP/KLPS-8054)
  • Released: January 27, 1967 [46]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KLP 401)
148—9—
1967 Everything Playing
  • Released: December 6, 1967 [47]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KLP/KLPS-8061)
  • Released: April 5, 1968 [48]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KLP 404)
118————
1968 Revelation: Revolution '69 [upper-alpha 2]
  • Released: October 7, 1968 [52]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KLPS-8073)
  • Released: June 1969 [53]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (620 009)
—————
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes

  1. ↑ RPM published its first Top LPs chart on January 2, 1967, [38] over a month after the release of Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful. [39]
  2. ↑ Revelation: Revolution '69 is credited to "The Lovin' Spoonful featuring Joe Butler", [49] but it only includes Butler playing with session musicians. [50] Later authors therefore generally omit the album when listing the band's discography. [51]

Soundtrack albums

List of soundtrack albums with selected chart positions
YearTitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
U.S. releaseU.K. release US
[3]
1966 What's Up, Tiger Lily?
  • Released: August 1966 [54]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KLP/KLPS-8053)
—126
1967 You're a Big Boy Now
  • Released: March 1967 [54]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KLP/KLPS-8058)
  • Released: May 1967 [55]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KLP 402)
160
"—" denotes releases that were not released in that territory.

Live albums

List of live albums
YearTitleAlbum details
1999 Live at the Hotel Seville

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums with selected chart positions and certifications
DecadeTitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US
[3] 		CAN
[57]
1960s What's Shakin' [upper-alpha 1] ——
The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful
  • Released: March 1967 [60]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KLP/KLPS-8056)
33
The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful Volume Two
  • Released: March 1968 [61]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KLP/KLPS-8064)
156—
24 Karat Hits: A Double Dozen of All Time Best Sellers by the Lovin' Spoonful
  • Released: August 1968 [62]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KLPS-750-2)
——
1970s The Very Best of the Lovin' Spoonful
  • Released: January 1970 [63]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KSBS 2013)
——
John Sebastian Song Book Vol.1
  • Released: November 1970 [64]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KSBS-2011)
——
Once Upon a Time
  • Released: 1971 [65]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KSBS-2029)
——
The Best ... Lovin' Spoonful
  • Released: February 1976 [66]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KSBS-2608-2)
183—
The File Series
  • Released: 1977 [67]
  • Label: Pye (FILD-009)
——
1980sGreatest Hits——
Distant Echoes
  • Released: 1982 [69]
  • Label: Accord (SN-7196)
——
The EP Collection——
The Collection——
1990s Anthology
  • Released: January 23, 1990 [71]
  • Label: Rhino (R2-70944)
——
Summer in the City
  • Released: 1995 [70]
  • Label: Spectrum (550-736-2)
——
The Very Best of the Lovin' Spoonful
  • Released: 1998 [70]
  • Label: Camden (74321 558492)
——
Collector's Edition
  • Released: 1999 [70]
  • Label: Platinum (DRC-1471/1472/1473)
——
2000s Greatest Hits
  • Released: February 22, 2000 [72]
  • Label: Buddah (BG2-99716)
——
Platinum & Gold Collection
  • Released: 2003 [73]
  • Label: Buddah/BMG (82876 55162 2)
——
Singles A's and B's
  • Released: 2006 [70]
  • Label: Repertoire (REP-5055)
——
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes

  1. ↑ What's Shakin' is a compilation of various Elektra performers from the mid-1960s. The Lovin' Spoonful account for four of the fourteen tracks. [58]

Year-end rankings

List of albums with selected year-end chart rankings
YearAlbumYear-end rankings
US
[74]
1966 Daydream 85
1967 The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful 23

EPs

List of UK EPs with selected chart positions
YearTitle [upper-alpha 1] EP detailsPeak chart positions
UK
[76]
1966Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind
  • Released: June 3, 1966 [77]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KEP 300)
3
Jug Band Music
  • Released: August 1966 [78]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KEP 301)
7
Summer in the City
  • Released: October 1966 [79]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KEP 302)
—
1967Day Blues
  • Released: February 1967 [55]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KEP 303)
—
Nashville Cats
  • Released: April 1967 [80]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KEP 304)
—
Lovin' You
  • Released: June 1967 [55]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KEP 305)
—
Something in the Night
  • Released: October 1967 [81]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KEP 306)
—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Notes

  1. ↑ The EP – short for Extended Play, a single-sized record with extra playing time – was a common format in Britain in the 1960s. [75] This is a list of EPs released in the UK, though promotional EPs were also released in the US and other countries.

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions and certifications
YearSingle detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)		Album
US
[3] 		AUS
[82] [upper-alpha 1] 		CAN
[83] 		FIN
[40] 		GER
[84] 		NL
[85] 		NOR
[86] 		SWE
[87] 		UK
[42]
1965"Do You Believe in Magic"
b/w "On the Road Again"		9—3xxxxx—non-album single [upper-alpha 2]
"You Didn't Have to Be So Nice"
b/w "My Gal" (from Do You Believe In Magic)
  • Released: November 1965 (US), [90] January 1966 (UK) [91]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KA 205), Pye International Records (7N.25344)
10—2xxxxx—non-album single [upper-alpha 3]
1966"Daydream"
b/w "Night Owl Blues" (from Do You Believe in Magic)
  • Released: February 1966 (US), [92] April 1, 1966 (UK) [93]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KA 208), Pye International Records (7N.25361)
2—1203011—12 Daydream
"Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?"
b/w "Didn't Want to Have to Do It" (from Daydream)		2—626—2023x Do You Believe in Magic
"Jug Band Music"
b/w "Didn't Want to Have to Do It"		xx2xxxxxxDaydream
"Baldheaded Lena"
b/w "On the Road Again" (from Do You Believe in Magic)		xxxxxxx1x
"Summer in the City"
b/w "Butchie's Tune" (from Daydream)		171252348non-album single [upper-alpha 8]
"Rain on the Roof"
b/w "Pow (Theme from 'What's Up, Tiger Lily?')"		10311228—13—11— Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful
"Nashville Cats"
b/w "Full Measure"
  • Released: November 1966 (US), [106] December 2, 1966 (UK) [107]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KA 219, KAS 204)
26
  • 2
  • 85
38—1171226
"Good Time Music"
b/w "Almost Grown"		xxxxx—xxx What's Shakin'
1967"Don't Bank on It, Baby"
b/w "Searchin'"
  • Released: January 3, 1967 (NL) [113]
  • Label: Disques Vogue (HV 2064)
xxxxx—xxx
"Darling Be Home Soon"
b/w "Darlin' Companion" (from Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful)
  • Released: February 1967 (US), [54] February 24, 1967 (UK) [114]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KA 220, KAS 207)
15—8——16——44 You're a Big Boy Now
"Six O'Clock"
b/w "The Finale" (from You're a Big Boy Now)
  • Released: April 6, 1967 (US), [115] May 1967 (UK) [116]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KA 225, KAS 208)
18—12——x———non-album single [upper-alpha 11]
"She Is Still a Mystery"
b/w "Only Pretty, What a Pity"
  • Released: September 21, 1967 (US), [117] November 1967 (UK) [118]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KA 239, KAS 210)
27—3—xxxx— Everything Playing
"Money"
b/w "Close Your Eyes"
  • Released: December 1967 (US), [54] February 1968 (UK) [119]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KA 241, KAS 211)
48—28x—xxx—
1968"Never Goin' Back (to Nashville)"
b/w "Forever" (from Everything Playing)
  • Released: June 5, 1968 (US), [52] August 23, 1968 (UK) [120]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KA 250, KAS 213)
73—49x—xxx—non-album single [upper-alpha 12]
"(Till I) Run with You"
b/w "Revelation: Revolution '69"
  • Released: August 20, 1968 (US) [121]
  • Label: Kama Sutra (KA 251)
128 [upper-alpha 13] ——xxxxxx Revelation: Revolution '69
1969"Me About You"
b/w "Amazing Air"		91x70xxxxxx
1970"Younger Generation" [upper-alpha 15]
b/w "Boredom"		—xxxxxxxxJohn Sebastian Song Book Vol.1
2011"Alley Oop" [upper-alpha 16]
b/w "Night Owl Blues" (unedited version)		—xxxxxxxxDo You Believe in Magic (2002 CD remaster)
"—" denotes releases that did not chart. "x" denotes single not released in that territory.

Notes

  1. ↑ Go-Set published the first Australian national chart on October 5, 1966. [82]
  2. ↑ The song was later included on the album Do You Believe in Magic .
  3. ↑ The song was later included on the album Daydream .
  4. ↑ Before the single's U.S. release in April 1966, [94] Quality Records issued it in December 1965 in select Canadian cities to test its potential performance in the American market. [95]
  5. ↑ "Jug Band Music" was released as a single exclusively in Canada. [96] The song debuted on Toronto's CHUM Chart the week ending May 2, 1966, [97] and it debuted on Canada's national chart two weeks later. [98]
  6. ↑ "Baldheaded Lena" debuted on the Kvällstoppen chart on June 28, 1966. [87]
  7. ↑ Kama Sutra issued the single in the U.K. instead backed with "Bald Headed Lena". [101]
  8. ↑ The song was later included on the album Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful .
  9. ↑ Kama Sutra issued the single in the U.K. instead backed with "Warm Baby". [105]
  10. ↑ Though marketed as the single's B-side, "Full Measure" received strong airplay in several markets, especially Los Angeles. [108] [109] The song's regional success helped it reach number 87 on the national chart. [110] [111]
  11. ↑ The song was later included on the album Everything Playing .
  12. ↑ The song was later included on the album Revelation: Revolution '69 .
  13. ↑ The song did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but instead peaked on the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart. [122]
  14. ↑ Billboard reviewed "Me About You" in its February 1, 1969, issue, and the single debuted on the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart that same week. [123] [124] Cash Box magazine reviewed the single in its January 18, 1969, issue, and the single debuted on the magazine's singles chart a week later. [125] [126]
  15. ↑ The single's face label credits "The Lovin' Spoonful featuring John Sebastian".
  16. ↑ Recorded in August 1965 during the sessions for Do You Believe in Magic, "Alley Oop" was not released until 2002, when Buddha included it as a bonus track on the album's CD remaster. [128] Sundazed Music issued the song in 2011 on a limited edition 7-inch vinyl record for Record Store Day. [129] [130]

Year-end rankings

List of singles with selected year-end chart rankings
YearSingleYear-end rankings
US
[131] 		BEL
(FL)
[132] 		NL
[133]
1965"Do You Believe in Magic"89——
1966"Daydream"38—90
"Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?"48——
"Summer in the City"358719
"—" denotes releases that did not rank.

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References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Three of the Lovin' Spoonful's singles that year – "Daydream", "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?" and "Summer in the City" – appeared on Billboard's list of the top records of the year. The only other groups to have at least three singles on the list were the Beach Boys (three), Paul Revere & the Raiders (three) and the Beatles (four). [6]
  2. ↑ Joe Butler, Steve Boone and Jerry Yester began touring under the name the Lovin' Spoonful in 1991, [14] a venture opposed by both John Sebastian and Zal Yanovsky. [15] Augmented by a group of touring musicians, [16] the group released a live album, Live at the Hotel Seville , in 1999. [17]
  3. ↑ Around the time of the agreement with Kama Sutra, the Lovin' Spoonful came to a side-deal with Elektra Records. The deal saw the band record four songs for the label, all of which later appeared on What's Shakin' , a 1966 compilation album. [21]
  4. ↑ MGM and Kama Sutra's renegotiated deal added a "key-man clause" which specified that the Lovin' Spoonful would only exist if Sebastian was a member. [24] After he left the band in 1968 and recorded his debut solo album, [25] MGM initially sought to release the album under the Lovin' Spoonful's name. [26]
  5. ↑ Among the lost tapes are eight-track outtakes which were rendered unplayable after they sunk aboard Boone's studio-boat in Baltimore's Inner Harbor in 1977. [31]

Citations

  1. ↑ Unterberger 2002 , pp. 75, 123, 279; Unterberger 2003 , pp. 61, 316.
  2. ↑ Jackson 2015, pp. xvii, 137.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The Lovin' Spoonful Chart History". Billboard . Archived from the original on November 21, 2022. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
  4. ↑ Savage 2015, pp. 544–545.
  5. ↑ "Top Singles Artists of 1966". Billboard . December 24, 1966. pp. 14, 18–19.
  6. ↑ "Top Records of 1966". Billboard . December 24, 1966. p. 34 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Boone & Moss 2014, p. 145.
  8. 1 2 3 Diken, Dennis (2002). Daydream (Liner notes). The Lovin' Spoonful. Buddha, BMG Heritage. 74465 99731 2.
  9. 1 2 3 "Gold & Platinum: Lovin' Spoonful". Recording Industry Association of America . Archived from the original on August 6, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
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  11. ↑ Boone & Moss 2014, pp. 170, 173, 182, 189.
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