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Lead guitarist Zal Yanovsky’s lone solo, after his unceremonious and quite unfair firing from the Lovin’ Spoonful in 1967, announces his new sense of freedom with an opening Jerry Yester co-written up-tempo rocker called "Raven in a Cage." Ironically, the whole album was co-produced by Zal’s replacement in the Spoonful, Jerry Yester, along with Zally himself. Zally’s zaniness comes through [...]
I challenged my readers with a couple of questions yesterday and, as always, the faithful came through for me! Mr STAP stepped up and nailed the answer to the question about the origins of the name 10cc. His answer is summarized below: There was a study that determined that the average output from a male ejaculation was 9 cc, so they called themselves 10 cc. Don’t remember the details about Lovin Spoonful, but the connection is obvious Yes indeed....the members of 10cc wanted the world to know that they were real men! [...]

The Lovin Spoonful, a group that grew out of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s, was one of the true musical treasures of the 1960s. In 1964, John Sebastian spent a lot of time sitting in with a group called the Mugwumps and met Zal Yanovsky one of the members of Mugwumps. When the Mugwumps broke up after only eight months, John and Zal joined with Joe Butler and Steve Boone to create the Spoonful. The rest, as they say, is history. Today's interview is a short, but very rare, 1966 interview with the original [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List , Television , Music Appreciation Mad Men Facebook After what feels like an eternity, Mad Men is finally coming back to cable. To celebrate, we used Sunday's season six premiere as an excuse to re-watch last season, over-analyze it for potential upcoming spoilers and listen to the soundtrack several times. Clearly, due to awesomeness, this led to us losing our minds. [...]
The Lovin’ Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic
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hot time in the city / photo by Brittney Bollay It’s time for Friday on My Mind again. This is the weekly collaborative effort between KEXP and King 5 news where we look at videos centered around a common theme. This week, in honor of Seattle finally getting full on Summer weather, we’re talking about Summer Heat! It’s hot out. In Seattle, its 90 degrees which is “damn hot”. If we hit 100, we consider that “WTF, I’m going to Canada” hot. According to the folks over at Accuweather, 2012 [...]

The Lovin' Spoonful: Summer in the City [ purchase ] You can feel the 1960s heat rising off of The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City." The band's first #1 single, the song started as a poem by John Sebastian's brother, Mark. All that remains from the original is the chorus (which sounds more like a typical Spoonful song than the rest of the song). John Sebastian toughened up the lyrics to reflect the sweltering tensions in American's urban areas. The mid-song sound effects further set the mood. "We hired an old [...]
The Lovin’ Spoonful - Hums Of The Lovin’ Spoonful Kama Sutra ) The Lovin’ Spoonful’s third record was one of those albums that suddenly found its way into my childhood collection, presumably a hand-me-down offering from my father when he figured out that the more time I spent dwelling in front of a record player was less time spent bugging him. It’s true: at a very young age, I was enraptured by the hypnotizing 33 1/3 revolutions per minutes and would absorb every detail of each platter that [...]
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Screw it, here's the soundtrack. 1. Vietnam - Summer in the City Download: vietnam-summer-in-the-city.mp3 2. Pleasure Cruise - Summer Cruise [...]
More than any other season, we equate summer with music - outdoor festivals abound, boomboxes blast, and everyone you know has their "essential summer playlist" on heavy rotation. While we definitely have thoughts on the new tracks and indie standbys you should be blasting this summer, we got a bit nostalgic after listening to NPR 's decades-spanning songs of the summer playlist on repeat this past week. Accordingly, we've collected a few "songs of the summer" from the '60s and '70s that we think still resonate today, and totally deserve a place on your 2012 summer fun mixtape [...]
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Hot Summer - Lovin’ Spoonful vs DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Wick-it Mashup - Click to download Wick-it The Instigator, Nashville based DJ/producer/mashup artist, is regularly on MayorMarwan.com and his new track “Hot Summer” is a perfect example of why. This dude is the real deal. Also, he’s one of the funniest facebookers out there. Check your boy, Wick-it on Facebook .

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The best way to get appreciation for your work in the music business is to die. After all, nothing but death could have forced the public at large to stop laughing at Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson and start listening to them again. What has transpired in the wake of Davy Jones’s death, however, is another matter entirely. Jones left behind no internal struggles for us to lament. But he did leave behind an emptiness in his professional life: The Monkees were never inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in his [...]

In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints, the feast day of Saint Valentine on February 14 was removed from the General Roman Calendar and relegated to particular (local or even national) calendars for the following reason: "Though the memorial of Saint Valentine is ancient, it is left to particular calendars, since, apart from his name, nothing is known of Saint Valentine except that he was buried on the Via Flaminia on February 14." The feast day is still celebrated in Balzan (Malta) where relics of the saint are claimed to be found, and also throughout the [...]
A restored and remastered DVD release of Legends of Folk: The Village Scene will feature many of the folk era's biggest, most influential stars - from Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel, to Peter Paul and Mary to Joan Baez. Due on April 3, the stirring live footage takes viewers inside the Village movement that changed pop culture forever. Produced [...]
A couple new artists to BtB and a few that have been featured on the site multiple times and will get featured many more times with where it seems there music is heading. First we got a newbie on the site, Jay Fresh, who collaborated with the Pretty Lights record label, specifically producer/DJ SuperVision, to [...]