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The Lovin' Spoonful: Spoonful — The Most On The Coast...

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 April 1966

TEAM O' genuine hillbillies flew into London last week and if the Lovin' Spoonful didn't actually tote 12-bore shot guns, they looked as if they'd ...

The Lovin' Spoonful: Singles As and Bs

Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2006

DO YOU BELIEVE in the magic of a great pop song? The Lovin' Spoonful did. On 1965's jaunty 'Do You Believe In Magic', their first ...

The Lovin' Spoonful: Spoonfuls Get Taste of Life… If You Believe In Magic

Profile by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 28 August 1965

IT IS REALLY rather hard to believe. Things like this just don't happen – do they? The four unusual boys who perform collectively as the ...

The Lovin' Spoonful: The Urban Villagers

Comment by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 26 July 1969

POPULAR music is sentimental, trivial or melodramatic, and therefore need never be listened to by people who care about real feelings. ...

The Lovin' Spoonful: Nice, Abnormal Spoonful!

Interview by Keith Altham, NME, 22 April 1966

JOHN SEBASTIAN, twenty-one-year-old composer and singer of the Lovin' Spoonful's latest hit 'Daydream', which is currently No. 4 in America, arrived at the group's Pye ...

The Lovin' Spoonful: Golden Spoonful (Polydor Twosome)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 13 October 1973

JOHN SEBASTIAN was the best P.R. man that hippies ever had. ...

The Lovin' Spoonful: A Taste Of The Spoonful

Report by Henry Diltz, Hullabaloo, December 1966

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL day to be flying somewhere. Just above a floating sea of white clouds the silver wing sticks out into vast baby blue ...

The Lovin' Spoonful, Zal Yanovsky: Zal Yanovsky

Obituary by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, March 2003

ZAL YANOVSKY, to many the man who provided that special spark of magic in The Lovin' Spoonful, died of a heart attack on December 13 ...

Lovin' Spoonful, The: The Lovin' Spoonful: Hums Of The Lovin' Spoonful (Kama Sutra)

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 28 January 1967

Country blues from the Lovin' Spoonful ...

Lovin' Spoonful, The: The Lovin' Spoonful: End Of The Rainbow

Retrospective by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, July 2002

The Lovin' Spoonful epitomised the euphoric, carefree spirit of the Summer of Love. But then came unwated adoration as The American Beatles., their very own ...

The Lovin' Spoonful, Zal Yanovsky: Alive And Well In Argentina At Last: The Mirth, The Music, The Magic Of Zalman Yanovsky

Memoir by Gary Pig Gold, Big O, December 2002

I KNOW AT LEAST one of his fellow supposedly-lovin’ Spoonfuls resents the situation to this day, but whenever Zal Yanovsky appeared on stage alongside John ...

Lovin' Spoonful, The: Steve Boone Offers Another Taste of The Lovin' Spoonful

Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 6 February 2019

IT WAS THE evening of August 23, 1966. In the bowels of New York's Shea Stadium – though only they knew it – the Beatles ...

Lovin' Spoonful, The: Why Does Everybody Love Loving the Lovin' Spoonful?

Profile and Interview by Dawn James, Rave, July 1966

To look at, they're a beautiful, ghastly mixture of beatnik, old lady and hillbilly, and they wear plimsolls without socks. What is it about the ...

Lovin' Spoonful, The, Blues Project, The: How the Lovin' Spoonful and the Blues Project Electrified New York City

Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2016

THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL were NYC's Beatles. Lillian Roxon, in her indispensable Rock Encyclopedia, called them "our own little moptops, born, bred and raised right here ...

Lovin' Spoonful, The: The Lovin' Spoonful: Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful (Kama Sutra)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 29 January 1967

A Handful of the Spoonful ...

Lovin' Spoonful, The, Searchers, The, Dusty Springfield, Vibrations, The: Dusty Springfield, the Lovin' Spoonful: Ready, Steady, Go!

Film/DVD/TV Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 23 April 1966

…and wasn't Dusty a gas on RSG? ...

Lovin' Spoonful, The: The Lovin' Spoonful: Revelation: Revolution '69 (Kama Sutra)

Review by Richard Green, NME, 7 June 1969

MY, HOW THE Spoonful have changed since the days of John Sebastian and the lunatical Zalman Yanovsky. ...

Lovin' Spoonful, The: The Lovin' Spoonful: Washing The Bad Medicine On Down

Profile by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 11 March 1967

FOR CENTURIES, mothers everywhere have given their children a spoon full of sugar and water to help the bad-tasting medicine go down. ...