Lovin Spoonful: Hums Of The Lovin' Spoonful
Lovin Spoonful: Hums Of The Lovin' Spoonful
Format: CD
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Artist: Lovin Spoonful
Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 090771633620
Genre: Rock
The Lovin' Spoonful: John Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Steve Boone, Joe Butler. Additional personnel: Henry Diltz (clarinet); Larry Hankin (Jew's harp). Having released two previous albums and a soundtrack, along with a stream of singles, over the previous 12-and-a-half months, the Lovin' Spoonful assembled their third regular studio LP, Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, for release around Thanksgiving 1966. It contained the group's chart-topping single from the previous June, "Summer in the City," along with September's Top Ten hit "Rain on the Roof" (curiously titled "You and Me and Rain on the Roof" on the LP). Released simultaneously with the album and included on it were the two songs from the next single, "Nashville Cats," which became the band's seventh consecutive Top Ten entry, and "Full Measure," a B-side featuring drummer Joe Butler on lead vocals that scraped into the singles chart. Those were the money songs, although Bobby Darin discovered the leadoff track, "Lovin' You," and quickly covered it for a Top 40 hit, and the moody "Coconut Grove," a tribute to Fred Neil, would become a permanent part of Spoonful leader John Sebastian's repertoire in his solo career. An emphasis on the parts of the album is a way of describing it as more of a loose collection of disparate tracks than a unified effort, despite Sebastian's hand in all the compositions and his lead vocals on most of them. This was by necessity, but also by design, since Sebastian and co. Went into the studio trying to sound completely different each time. They often succeeded: except for the vocal similarity, the rock band playing "Summer in the City" and the caustic, autobiographical "4 Eyes" doesn't sound much like the country unit picking it's way through "Lovin' You" and "Nashville Cats." Sebastian may have been an obvious New Yorker (those "yellow Sun records" were from Memphis, not Nashville), but that didn't keep him from expressing his musical passions effectively.
Tracks:
1.1 Lovin You
1.2 Bes' Friends
1.3 Voodoo in My Basement
1.4 Darlin' Companion
1.5 Henry Thomas
1.6 Full Measure
1.7 Rain on the Roof
1.8 Coconut Grove
1.9 Nashville Cats
1.10 Four Eyes
1.11 Summer in the City
