THE LOVIN SPOONFUL REACTION - Summer in the city - First time hearing
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- THE LOVIN SPOONFUL REACTION - Summer in the city - First time hearing
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No one else sounded like the Spoonful. One of the reasons that they're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Harri, I'd recommend their "Do You Believe in Magic"!!!
The version on Ed Sullivan was funny.
You Didn't Have to Be so Nice
Rain on the Roof
Did you Ever have To Make up your Mind? 👍✌️🇨🇦
One brilliant song.
This does paint a picture of a summer in the city, New York City at that time in 1966. Even though I was only 7 years old in 1966, I traveled to New York City with my family or Day Camp. The summers were very hot and the streets were crowded.
This song ahead of it's time. It still resonates with the cities today a great vibe for sure.
Hey Harri..This is one one those songs that will be played for eternity..Great song
Ahead of their time for 1966. The song was literally written about record-hot summer days in NYC, mid-60s. Unique lyrics, keyboard & sound effects. The lyrics perfectly portray humid summer days in NYC 🤌.
Daydream !!! 👍
Harri reacted to my request for Daydream back in May, also Nashville Cats . Thanks for asking.n🙃👍
This was their biggest hit. Reaching #1. They had many top ten hits but this was their only #1. We can relate to this song in this hot summer worldwide.
Do You Believe in Magic/Daydream
@@bobsteinzig 👍. Yeah. Harri did Daydream 2 months ago. Thanks 🙃
Slight rebuke, Daniel. If you quote chart positions then you have to state which country. No #1s in the UK. "Daydream" reached #2, this one was only top ten.
No matter really. Both are great tracks.
@@sharonsnail2954 Sorry Sharon. I always go by the Billboard top 100. ( Because I have a book) 😉 Thanks for setting me straight. 👍🙃
Love it.
The 60s. Hey! Peoples! There a big Gig a coming to This town in Bethel. New York. Got a 65 Impala SS. Gotta ticket to ride! 🇺🇸🇨🇦🌄✌️
One of my favorites! Love the lyrics-so creative. Love to sing along. Happy you found it!!!!
Yaaassss! Lovin' me some Lovin' Spoonful.
Great song to react to
Timeless.
Still reminds me of a hot summer day. I was a young girl walking barefoot on the sidewalk and burning my feet. Truth ! Great memories of summers gone by. 😊🎵 walking on the sidewalk hotter than a match head 🎵
Me too. Hot feet and grass was all brown and dried up. Ouch. 🙃👍
Fantastic Song, All those yrs ago. It NEVER GETS OLD! THANKS HARRI. 😊💞
First day of summer, all over the radio, as far back as I can remember…. Along with Mungo Jerry “In The Summertime”
Great song from a great band
Great choice Daniel. This song takes me right back to my teens and those lazy summer days. These lip synched made for TV videos are hilarious. They didn’t really even try to make them look real. Gotta love it! Great reaction Harri 🌺✌️
Daniel Folk another one marked off my list. We are of one mind it seems
👍🙃. I hope you request all mine before me next month pal. 😉
Perfect song for a summer night. Such a great band. Lovin Spoonful had several hits in the 60's.Probably one of my favourites.
Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Daniel. Super choice. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks for your kind comments. The lead guitarist Zal was Canadian so that is a good thing , Eh ? 👍🙃🇨🇦
I agree Mary it’s a lovely summer night tonight up here so it fits in perfectly. ✌️
@@danielvolk237 Right on,eh 🤣🎶🎶👍✌️🇨🇦
@@Cynthia... Thanks Cynthia. Reminds me of sitting on the porch with my transistor listening to The Lovin Spoonful. 😊👍✌️🇨🇦
@@marybaillie8907 What part of Canada are you in? You may have mentioned but I can't remember. I live in Toronto but am at Lake Simcoe for the summer.
A great song with great lyrics. A childhood favorite. Just heard it on an oldies radio station this morning. Always fun to sing along. Cool cat lookin for a kitty, gonna look in every corner of the city. 😻
One of the greatest singles IMO of all time. Lead singer John Sebastian's brother wrote the lyrics as a poem, not intending for them to be used as song lyrics but John took them and he and bassist Steve Boone added the music to it and there you have it. These guys were on fire with their records in 65, 66 and 67 and then just as quickly trailed off just like a firecracker that had gone off and the embers would fall harmlessly to the ground.
There is a really good reason the trailed off & it had to do with Zal's pot bust
Surely, one of the greatest summer tunes.
So many great songs! Younger Girl, Nashville Cats, Do you believe in Magic, Did you ever have to make up your mind, What a day for a daydream, Didn’t want to have to do it, Six O’clock. Dive in!❤️🔥😎
I agree, they had a lot of great songs. I have already requested "Daydream" and "Nashville Cats". Thanks for your comment. 🙃👍
About the same time ( if not the same summer) a group called Mungo Jerry came out with a tune called 'In The Summertime', just in case you were looking at summer songs it was a clever one. Thanks Harry
Great summer song 🤯 the sixties were Hot!! ‘In the Summertime’ by Mungo Jerry is another great song 😻🇨🇦☮️
John Sebastian is a nice person. I live in the same County as he does. He once came into the inpatient healthcare facility I worked in and spent the day walking the units playing guitar and singing to the patients.
The year this song came out was 1966 . I was stuck in traffic with my boss in downtown Detroit It was mid summer and HOT. This song came on the radio and it was perfect for our situation .We sat in traffic . No AC in our truck . I remember it like it was yesterday .
I’ve always loved this song.
Loved this hit song back in my teens.
If you like a song that has the city feeling in it try Crosstown Traffic by Jimi Hendrix
Wow, you took me right back to high school and I’m OOOLLLDDD! Thanks, Harri!
Me too. 👍🙃
Me three. Lol 👍✌️🇨🇦
Very famous song and futuristic for its day!
So American this song Harri.
John Sebastian is one hell of a talented musician.
"Cool cat looking for a kitty, going to look in every corner of the city".
Love this lyric so much.
Takes me right back to my childhood summers in the 60's! Check out "Darlin' Be Home Soon", such a beautifully written and performed song! It's very special to me
Harri, this song is about you. "Cool cat looking for a kitty" 😉
John Sebastian (singer) was one of the openers for The Who in 1969 (pre-Woodstock). My favorite song of his is "Younger Generation" which he sang at Woodstock.
Lol it's winter in Australia 🇦🇺
Another of their hits is "Did you ever have to make up your mind". This one isVery good song for all of us putting up with the Temps
Haven’t heard that song for ages. Great suggestion!
Love this song, and quite a departure from their earlier folky sound.
Oh yeah Summer 1966 this song came out.
Nice! The song is from 1966, but it's such a catchy tune it got radio play well into the seventies -- especially in places that get very hot in the summer like the place where I grew up. They were clearly lip synching the song in the video, giving away the game whenever they threw their hands up while laughing at the mystery sounds of horns honking coming out of nowhere.
It was still getting radio play in the eighties! That’s when I heard it.
cool!
Thank you for playing this.
Same chords in the verses were used in Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4. Very common chord progression.. also used in Ray Charles' Hit the Road Jack for example. Spanish type chord progression.
Great request Daniel. Great reaction Harri!
Thanks 🙃👍
Harri, you did a reaction to John Sebastian (lead singer of The Lovin Spoonful) to a song called Rainbows all over your Blues live at Woodstock.
He also did Daydream and Nashville Cats. 🙃👍
Takes me back to those Summer days and nights as a teen. Did a lot of dancing
Another winner Daniel I think we must have been born around the same time. We both love the same great music.🇺🇸🇨🇦
I know kind of scary huh? Of course the lead guitarist Zal was Canadian. 🙃👍🇨🇦
John Sebastian before his solo career
I love that they broke the pantomime at the end there.
The organ at the beginning was a stroke of brilliance.
The guitar/piano riff influenced Eric Clapton's work in "Tales of Brave Ulysses" with Cream.
That piano riff is a bad mother.
Takes me back to 1966 as a ten year old kid. 60s music, no matter the genre was so damn good. Country Western, R&B, Pop it was all good. It started going down hill in the mid 80s.
Love your review. John Sebastian,Lead singer of the Lovin' spoonful as you so aptly noticed wrote lyrics like a painting. He grew up in NYC and his parents had cool artistic people in their house. His love for country is evident in "Nashville Cats.." I simply have to have their best of CD on stand by in my car, and his solo work kept growing. Big rabbit hole to dive into. Big fan here!
That was a huge hit back then .
Interesting band with drums, one guitar and 2 piano/organ players thus their sound. Groovy song, ha ha...remember this one! They had quite a few hits since they were kind of unique. Also on these shows it was all lip syncing on everything, the guitar wasn't plugged in and the guy messed up, thus they were laughing. Good one, thanks!
Harri, you’re nailing these great songs lately, thank you
Nice song! 🙂 Another great hit from the old time is The End of the World - Skeeter Davis
Sorry friends in UK and on the continent with all the heat. Glad you're ok Harry!
Been pretty hot on this side of the pond as well.
Daniel, have you ever seen the 1966 Woody Allen comedy, *"What's Up, TIger Lily?"* If not, you must, it's hilarious! Oh, yeah, and the reason I mention it is because not only was the soundtrack done by, The Lovin Spoonful, but the band actually performs in the film. Hopefully it's your cup of tea. If you like, Airplane, and, The Naked Gun, type of humor, you'll love it!
Oh yeah, back in the day I loved it. Haven't thought about it for about thirty years. Thanks for bringing it up Pal . 👍🙃
@@danielvolk237 Put it on your re-watch list, man, it is a hoot and a half!!!
@@danielvolk237 Excellent! choice!!! 👍
John Sebastian, whose father was a noted classical harmonica player, usually played guitar and autoharp as well as piano in the band. His solo career included a few guest appearances with other famous bands: he plays the harmonica on The Doors' "Roadhouse Blues." uncredited due to label conflicts.
He was a masterful harp player.
Harri the singer on the organ was well liked on the usa music sceneDavid Crosby and Stephen Stills, ask Neil Young to join their group and they wanted one more singer and he told them the guy to ask is Graham Nash, the rest is history. Ok My Friend 🎸👍😎
They were such a fun band. Sebastian reminded me of John Lennon. They did a ton of popular songs. I listed some below in response to J.K. Clare. They were all winners.
He was also giving me Ray Manzarek vibes.
@@gwensnyder8313 - You're right. Never occurred to me.
He did a masterful job on Harmonica on the Doors song "Roadhouse Blues" 😉👍🔥
This song has been around forever, but I now associate it with Die Hard 3.
Yo harri. I loved your Nat King Cole reaction. But there's an incredible performance by the man when he did his version of Nature Boy. Its live, the vocals and guitaring are unlike anything else from the time. It's impressive, nearly 9 million views for a 50s tune, (technically 1948) Check it out. It's the black and white version, via Hugo marques tuber.
This is one of my all time favorites. Well worth a look
Nat is my Favorite singer of all time. I was just a wee kid when he died, But I cried & told my Dad, who had a Beautiful Italian Voice, I love this man, I'm going to miss him & his songs.If Nat wasn't on air, he was on TV. Just so smooth. He was only 45. 💙
Another Great summer song is Grazing In The Grass by Friends of Distiction
Check out their "what a day for a daydream. Paints another picture in words. Peace and Love
The lyrics were written by the brother of lead singer John Sebastian as a high school assignment. He got an F! I bet when he got that first royalty check he thought, "Take that Teacher!"
They were cracking up because they weren't playing the guitarist actually put his hands up while the guitar kept playing
My Sister dated Zal and John sang Your a Big Boy Now at my 12th birthday
Wow!! That is pretty Cool. Poor Zal. RIP
Melody Gardot "Baby I'm a Fool"
OMG, the memories this brings back. Makes me want to jump in the backseat of a '60 Chevy with my girl.
These guys were from New York
Try Lovin Spoonful....Daydream.
Another great band I grew up with from the 60's. They had so many cool songs such as "Jug Band Music", "Nashville Cats", "Rain On The Roof", "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?", "Daydream", "You Didn't Have To Be So Nice". John Sebastian was their lead singer & went solo in the 70's. He had a hit with "Welcome Back" from the 1976 TV series "Welcome Back Kotter" (starred a young John Travolta).
John Sebastian also did a masterful job on the Doors song " Roadhouse Blues" on Harmonica. 😉
They ratted on their dealer, their name became mud and we girls refused to ball them. Thank god the Vanilla Fudge came alone. Oh, and do you want tartar sauce with that flake sir?
You're thinking of Zally.
Harri, Who is that band pictured behind
you in the notice for this song? It definitely is not Lovin' Spoonful. 😉👍
two keyboards and no bass? original setup.
2 Vox Continentals. Way cool. Cue the Doors, Animals, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Dave Clark 5, ? and the Mysterians, Monkees, etc.
Sorry Harri the singer on the organ is John Sebastian.
Three comments: 1) Interesting, did Lovin' Spoonful always have 2 keyboards? 2) Did they always dress/act like the Monkees? 3) Were all their songs as good as this one?
#1 Don't know. #2 They were slated to play the band in the show but were dropped. #3 You'll have to answer that for yourself, but here are the names of some of their other hits: "Daydream", "Do You Believe In Magic", "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice", and "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?"
@@mikecaetano - #1 - They didn't always have 2 keyboards. The guy on the left, Steve Boone, played bass sometimes and Sebastian, the guy on the right played guitar or harpsichord. #2 - These guys predated the Monkees starting in Greenwich Village NYC in 1965. #3 - All of their songs were great. They all had great senses of humor, especially Zal Yavonsky (Canadian) on guitar and Joe Butler on drums. Some of their songs...Do you believe in magic, Rain on the roof, You didn't have to be so nice, She is still a mystery, Younger girl, Did you ever have to make up your mind, Six O'clock, Nashville Cats, Darlin' be home soon. Tons of great songs. They also did "Welcome Back", the theme to Welcome back Kotter, the show that introduced John Travolta. Loved the Spoonful.
#1, Not usually the singer usually played a stringed instrument (guitar, autoharp..etc) #2 They were around for a few years before The Monkees, so if anything The Monkees kinda took after them, #3 This was their only #1, their earlier work was more folky, but it was also very good.
@@garyarnett1220 - Oops, I meant autoharp, not harpsichord. I'm old and have frequent brain farts. Thanks for the correction. I loved "Bald headed Lena", LOL.
@@susieq9801 "In a coffee house Sebastian sat \ And after every number they'd pass the hat" --The Mamas & the Papas, "Creeque Alley" (1967)
Songs were way too short in the 60's.
I hope you all ordered your air conditioning.
What's cool is they didn't imitate the Beatles.
Cream copied this song.