November 16, 2018

813 The Lovin’ Spoonful “The Other Side of Life” 1965

“Lovin’ Spoonful was formed a the end of 1964 by John Sebastian (born on March 17, 1944, in New York City), a Greenwich Village folk music veteran who’d played harmonica on albums by Judy Collins, Tom Rush, and other folkies, and guitarist Zal Yanovsky, a former member of the folk-rock group the Mugwumps (alongside future Mamas & Papas Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty). With Steve Boone on bass and Joe Butler on drums, they named their group from a line in the song Coffee Blues by the great bluesman Mississippi John Hurt, with whom Sebastian had played in the Village” (Steve Sullivan, Encyclopedia of Great Popular Recordings, 2013). 

The Lovin’ Spoonful “The Other Side of Life”

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