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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 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 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]
| The Lovin' Spoonful discography | |
|---|---|
 The Lovin' Spoonful in 1965 | |
| Studio albums | 5 |
| EPs | 8 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 20 |
| Singles | 19 |
| Soundtrack albums | 2 |
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 Spoonful in the process.[22][23] The band's new contract ran until 1975 and had their compensation at seven figures.[24][nb 4] In 2023, John Sebastian, the Spoonful's primary songwriter, sold the publishing and artist royalties rights for all of his compositions to AMR Songs, an American catalog marketing company.[28]
The Lovin' Spoonful's music has been regularly collected on compilation albums.[29] In the years after the band's breakup, many of their original multi-track master-tapes were lost and presumed destroyed.[30][31][nb 5] The group's earliest CD reissues were instead made from the best available stereo masters,[31] leaving the material sounding substandard when compared to reissues of other 1960s music.[33] 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.[29][34] BMG Heritage Records, a reissue division of Sony BMG,[35] issued digital remasters of the band's first four studio albums on CD in 2002 and 2003,[36] along with previously unreleased bonus material.[37]
| Year | Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. release | U.K. release | US [3] |
CAN [38][A] |
FIN [40] |
NOR [41] |
UK [42] | ||
| 1965 | Do You Believe in Magic |
|
|
32 | — | — | — | — |
| 1966 | Daydream |
|
|
10 | — | 9 | — | 8 |
| Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful |
|
|
14 | 8 | — | 9 | — | |
| 1967 | Everything Playing |
|
|
118 | — | — | — | — |
| 1968 | Revelation: Revolution '69[B] |
|
|
— | — | — | — | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||||
Notes
| Year | Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. release | U.K. release | US [3] | |||
| 1966 | What's Up, Tiger Lily? |
|
— | 126 | |
| 1967 | You're a Big Boy Now |
|
|
160 | |
| "—" denotes releases that were not released in that territory. | |||||
| Year | Title | Album details |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Live at the Hotel Seville |
|
| Decade | Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [3] |
CAN [57] | ||||
| 1960s | What's Shakin'[A] | — | — | ||
| The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful |
|
3 | 3 | ||
| The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful Volume Two |
|
156 | — | ||
| 24 Karat Hits: A Double Dozen of All Time Best Sellers by the Lovin' Spoonful |
|
— | — | ||
| 1970s | The Very Best of the Lovin' Spoonful |
|
— | — | |
| John Sebastian Song Book Vol.1 |
|
— | — | ||
| Once Upon a Time |
|
— | — | ||
| The Best ... Lovin' Spoonful |
|
183 | — | ||
| The File Series | — | — | |||
| 1980s | Greatest Hits | — | — | ||
| Distant Echoes |
|
— | — | ||
| The EP Collection |
|
— | — | ||
| The Collection |
|
— | — | ||
| 1990s | Anthology | — | — | ||
| Summer in the City |
|
— | — | ||
| The Very Best of the Lovin' Spoonful |
|
— | — | ||
| Collector's Edition |
|
— | — | ||
| 2000s | Greatest Hits | — | — | ||
| Platinum & Gold Collection | — | — | |||
| Singles A's and B's |
|
— | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||
Notes
| Year | Album | Year-end rankings | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [74] | ||||
| 1966 | Daydream | 85 | ||
| 1967 | The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful | 23 | ||
| Year | Title[A] | EP details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK [76] | |||
| 1966 | Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind |
|
3 |
| Jug Band Music |
|
7 | |
| Summer in the City |
|
— | |
| 1967 | Day Blues |
|
— |
| Nashville Cats |
|
— | |
| Lovin' You |
|
— | |
| Something in the Night |
|
— | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||
Notes
| Year | Single details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
Album | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [3] |
AUS [82][A] |
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 | — | 3 | x | x | x | x | x | — | non-album single[B] | ||
| "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" b/w "My Gal" (from Do You Believe In Magic) |
10 | — | 2 | x | x | x | x | x | — | non-album single[C] | |||
| 1966 | "Daydream" b/w "Night Owl Blues" (from Do You Believe in Magic) |
2 | — | 1 | 20 | 30 | 11 | — | 1 | 2 | Daydream | ||
| "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?" b/w "Didn't Want to Have to Do It" (from Daydream) |
2 | — | 6 | 26 | — | 20 | 2 | 3 | x | Do You Believe in Magic | |||
| "Jug Band Music" b/w "Didn't Want to Have to Do It" |
x | x | 2 | x | x | x | x | x | x | Daydream | |||
| "Baldheaded Lena" b/w "On the Road Again" (from Do You Believe in Magic)
|
x | x | x | x | x | x | x | 1 | x | ||||
| "Summer in the City" b/w "Butchie's Tune" (from Daydream) |
1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | non-album single[H] | |||
| "Rain on the Roof" b/w "Pow (Theme from 'What's Up, Tiger Lily?')" |
10 | 31 | 12 | 28 | — | 13 | — | 11 | — | Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful | |||
| "Nashville Cats" b/w "Full Measure" |
|
26 |
|
38 | — | 11 | 7 | 12 | 26 | ||||
| "Good Time Music" b/w "Almost Grown"
|
x | x | x | x | x | — | x | x | x | What's Shakin' | |||
| 1967 | "Don't Bank on It, Baby" b/w "Searchin'"
|
x | x | x | x | x | — | x | x | x | |||
| "Darling Be Home Soon" b/w "Darlin' Companion" (from Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful) |
15 | — | 8 | — | — | 16 | — | — | 44 | You're a Big Boy Now | |||
| "Six O'Clock" b/w "The Finale" (from You're a Big Boy Now) |
18 | — | 12 | — | — | x | — | — | — | non-album single[K] | |||
| "She Is Still a Mystery" b/w "Only Pretty, What a Pity" |
27 | — | 3 | — | x | x | x | x | — | Everything Playing | |||
| "Money" b/w "Close Your Eyes" |
48 | — | 28 | x | — | x | x | x | — | ||||
| 1968 | "Never Goin' Back" b/w "Forever" (from Everything Playing) |
73 | — | 49 | x | — | x | x | x | — | non-album single[L] | ||
| "(Till I) Run with You" b/w "Revelation: Revolution '69"
|
128[M] | — | — | x | x | x | x | x | x | Revelation: Revolution '69 | |||
| 1969 | "Me About You" b/w "Amazing Air"
|
91 | x | 70 | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||
| 1970 | "Younger Generation"[O] b/w "Boredom" |
— | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | John Sebastian Song Book Vol.1 | ||
| 2011 | "Alley Oop"[P] b/w "Night Owl Blues" (unedited version)
|
— | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Do You Believe in Magic (2002 CD remaster) | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. "x" denotes single not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
Notes
| Year | Single | Year-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" | 35 | 87 | 19 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not rank. | ||||
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