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highly recommended

Best collection of one of my all-time favorite groups

In the summer of '65 I turned 14. It was virtually impossible not to be mesmorized by the sounds eminating from my little Radio Shack transistor radio. The Beatles were at the height of their popularity and Motown was churning out one memorable tune after another. I went on vacation with my parents for two weeks in mid-July and when I returned a couple of hippies I had never heard of---Sonny and Cher--had several records on the charts!! It was difficult to decide which 45's to buy with the limited resources from my paper route. It was about this time that two rockers from Long Island teamed up with two folkies from Greenwich Village to form what would become the Lovin' Spoonful. They would become one of my all-time favorite bands. The debut single "Do You Believe In Magic" quickly raced up the charts and became a Top Ten smash. Over the next year and a half the group would place another 6 tunes in the Top 10. The biggest of these, "Summer in the City" reached number one for 3 weeks in August 1966. To me, the amazing thing about the Spoonful was that no two tunes sounded the same.
Lead singer John Sebastian was also an incredibly gifted songwriter. The evidence of this can be found throughout the 26 selections on this incredible CD. Believe me, there is no filler on this CD. You will find what I discovered years ago.
Even the "B" sides of Spoonful records were amazing!!! Check out tunes like "Didn't Want To Have To Do It", "Younger Girl" and "You're A Big Boy Now".
Unfortunately the party was short lived. Lead guitarist Zal Yanovsky left the band in 1967 and was replaced by Jerry Yester. About a year later John Sebastian left to pursue a solo career and the group disbanded. It was not until 1991 that original members Joe Butler and Steve Boone and the aforementioned Jerry Yester decided to re-form the band. They have been touring ever since. In 2000, the Lovin' Spoonful was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
All of the tracks on this fabulous CD are the original Kama Sutra recordings. You'll also enjoy perusing the 12 page booklet included here. Very highly recommended!!!!!

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Biggest and Best Mouthful of the Lovin Spoonful

I had a couple of inexpensive cd's of the Loving Spoonful and what a waste of money. The mastering was horrible like someone had an old album recorded it onto a cassette and then transferred it to a cd. Well after Buddha Records decided to release the original masters and put them on cd it was like seeing the sun for the first time after about a week of rain.
The music is good stuff and the sound is crisp and clear like never before. One song that you never seem to hear on the radio anymore is here-(Didn't Want to Have to Do it) and a very clean recording. Also, the song (You Baby) is great and I believe that John Sebastian is not singing lead on this song. Evidently all of the members could sing and sing well. THIS IS THE ONLY CD TO BUY, no disappointment here.

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Superb Collection!

Lovin Spoonful was one of the few American pop/rock bands in the middle 1960's that really was able to compete with the British. Led by singer/songwriter John Sebastion they scored more than ten international hits from 1965 to 1967.

This CD sums up all these great pop-singles along with some very good tracks taken from their original albums.

Songs like "Summer in the City", "Daydream" and "Rain on the Room" seem forever young, and make you want more of the same. Album tracks like "You Baby", "Younger Girl" and "Lovin' You" are just as strong as most of their hit-records. The only track that I really think is missing here is "It's Not Time Now" from the Daydream album. Fortunately all their original albums have been remastered and re-released with a handfull of bonus-tracks on each CD.

Anyway this CD is highly recommended for those who want to have only one CD by the band.

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Note-perfect anthology

Replacing Rhino's similarly sized collection, Buddha's issue sports improved (yet still not great) sound, new liner notes from noted pop writer Ben Edmonds, and photos from Henry Diltz. The track selection is superb (and virtually a duplicate of Rhino's earlier collection - switching only 3 songs), providing all the major hits and adding in enough album tracks to flesh out a more complete picture of the band's recordings.

John Sebastian managed to wed jug band vibes to a witty songwriter's pen resulting in sunshine pop that often held a social edge. The Spoonful's music didn't provide the earthquaking innovation of The Byrds, but it served up substantial hit radio fare with amazing regularity.

Those who already own Rhino's "Anthology" won't find much here beyond the marginally improved sonics (which suggest that these tunes weren't engineered very well in the first place); those looking to buy into the Lovin' Spoonful catalog should definitely start here.

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The Lovin' Spoonful's good time music.

The Lovin' Spoonful is often unrecognized for their other great songs in their catalog besides the ones we all know: "Do You Believe In Magic", "Daydream", "You Didn't Have To Be So Nice", and "Summer in the City". On here are 26 selections from hit singles to album cuts you might not have heard but worthy of getting acquainted with. "Rain on the Roof" kind of stuck out at me with it's sunny-natured tone even though pictured on a rainy afternoon. The liner notes indicate its B-side is "Pow! (Theme From 'What's Up, Tiger Lilly?')" (What a silly name. Good fun!)
That song is one of the must fun songs on here. There is a big musical montage as you listen to this disc. The band wasn't worried about experimenting. Why, on one of the last songs on the disc, they play on a typewriter! (Cool, huh?) This disc is marvelous overview of an often over-looked good-time '60s band.

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