Recent blog posts about Lovin' Spoonful from music blog aggregator, Elbo.ws http://elbo.ws/artist/lovinspoonful/ 2012-02-15T20:49:35+01:00 text/html 2011-11-20T00:22:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3874066/sampled-saturday-jay-fresh-jacob-es-aziz-alex-frecon-theo/
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 [...]]]> text/html 2011-09-18T23:10:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3729342/nine-lives-nashville-cats/
Lovin' Spoonful : Nashville Cats [ purchase ] The Del McCoury Band : Nashville Cats (Lovin' Spoonful cover) [ purchase ] I always heard a short lick of tongue-in-cheek in the original slinky, funky take on this mid-sixties tune from Lovin' Spoonful, though I don't think it was purposeful: it's a wry tune to begin with, but Darius wasn't wrong way back in 2008 when he described the song as an honest homage from lead songwriter John [...]]]> text/html 2011-09-13T13:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3717366/the-walkmen-perform-johnny-cash-cover-set-on-kexp-radio/
The Walkmen cover four Johnny Cash songs for an impromptu radio performance.]]> text/html 2011-09-09T15:56:19+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3709002/listen-the-walkmen-cover-bob-dylan-and-johnny-cash/
I'll let you into a secret. I say secret if you know me personally it isn't that much of a secret, but I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. This may only be lightly linked to Bobby D but I'm not complaining. The Walkmen recently visited KEXP and laid down some raspy covers of Johnny Cash however one of the tracks was actually a cover that Johnny had done of Bob, so you see the loose link to Mr Zimmerman. The tracks they performed were "Wanted Man" which was originally Dylan's along with "Mr. [...]]]> text/html 2011-08-19T04:13:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3659974/welcome-to-hell-or-houston-its-all-the/
It was this hot at 6:30 in the evening! Houston hit its 17th or so (I lost track) consecutive day of 100-degree-plus temperatures today. That's wild for Houston, the TV weatherman said, and I wondered: do they have weathermen in Hell? Let's hope so, because imagining every one of those dipshits frying up crispy in Hell's Fry Baby is just about the only thing that brings a smile to my heat-parched lips these days. Oh, I should tell you many of us in heat-fried Texas spend most of our time indoors, where [...]]]> text/html 2011-08-18T17:16:02+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3658964/you-know-how-to-whistle-dont-you/
There's something about a song with whistling that never fails to captivate. From "(Sitting At The) Dock of the Bay" to "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard" to basically any song by Andrew Bird (the indisputable whistle king), it always adds a little something that makes the track burrow deep inside your brain. One recent example is Foster The People's "Pumped Up Kicks", which turned a catchy melody and even catchier whistle into a massive crossover hit (it even inspired a cover version by Weezer ). This is nothing new of course, if you look at [...]]]> text/html 2011-07-31T15:52:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3606537/daydream-lovin-spoonful/
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Summer, Summer, Summer...it turns me upside down. Well, not really. I live in the Northeast, as I've said in the past, because I'm not that big on the heat. A lot of folks love the summer weather. Heck, half of them don't even need air conditioning. That's definitely not me. I don't mind a good dip in the ocean, but I'm not going to work that hard to make that happen anymore. Something about all these extra pounds I figure. My friends go to Cape Cod almost every weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day and I just can't get [...]]]> text/html 2011-06-22T05:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3538908/tv-themes-the-wonder-years/
Few TV shows ever have so accurately observed the condition of the suburban teenager as The Wonder Years did. One may regard the series, which ran for six seasons (from January 1988 to May 1993), as an exercise in nostalgia. Coming into the middle of a revival that celebrated the 1960s and the beginning of the 70s, it benefited from fortuitous timing, but as a story of growing up as told by an adult man, the timeframe made perfect sense. Some may accuse the show of [...]]]> text/html 2011-06-22T04:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3538832/wednesday-lovin-spoonful-karaoke/
From October 1966, please enjoy the seriously and inexplicably underrated Lovin Spoonful and the instrumental track to their gorgeous folk-pop ballad hit "Rain on the Roof." Featuring some of the loveliest fingerpicking ever heard by sentient mammalian ears and Zal Yanovsky 's brilliant fuzz-guitar imitation of the sound of a French Horn. At this point I would usually post the song's lyrics and encourage you to sing along, but I don't think I will today, given that the track is simply [...]]]> text/html 2011-04-13T04:21:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3359698/give-larabee-216-seconds/
It's amazing what you can do with 216 seconds. You can boil an egg, eat a hot dog, skim yesterday's Phils' highlights, take out the trash, even drinkthreebeersfast... but most gloriously you can get lost in a pop song. In this give-it-to-me now, attention deficit, jump cut, itunes instant gratification age we wallow in (if only for a moment), many mourn the death of the album, the grand artistic statement. Not me. Give me great songs. Give 'em to me fast and hard. My friend Dave espouses the Five Second Theory - you will know in the [...]]]> text/html 2011-04-02T07:21:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3331795/woods-pushing-onlys-new-top-10-daily-mp3-178/
Woods - "Pushing Onlys" MP3 I haven't even listened to this new Woods tune yet, but hey, good band ... ANNNNND the new Top-1o: 1. The Rhythm Of Black Lines (GSL rosteree might have been the ultimate modern prog-rock band.) ... Continue reading ’]]> text/html 2011-03-17T22:55:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3290894/coverville-754-the-lovin-spoonful-cover-story/
In honor of John Sebastian's birthday - who formed the group back in the 602s, let's listen to some great covers of The Lovin' Spoonful tonight on the show. Covers of their more familiar singles, as well as their lesser-known cuts, tonight on Coverville! 42 minutes | Featuring: Title Artist Album Original Artist [...]]]> text/html 2011-02-08T09:10:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3193518/the-lovin-spoonful-on-the-road-again/
Here's a dirty little blues number from the band that was formed while hanging with Mama Cass watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. They also, supposedly, inspired the Grateful Dead to go electric. From the flip-side of Do you Believe in Magic on Kama Sutra KA-201: The Lovin' Spoonful-On The Road Again]]> text/html 2011-01-24T18:10:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3140527/the-lovin-spoonful-on-the-road-again/
Here's a dirty little blues number from the band that was formed while hanging with Mama Cass watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. They also, supposedly, inspired the Grateful Dead to go electric. From the flip-side of Do you Believe in Magic on Kama Sutra KA-201: The Lovin' Spoonful - On The Road Again]]> text/html 2010-11-11T08:06:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2962570/summer-in-the-city-the-lovin-spoonful-1966/
Au sommet. En 1966, le groupe amricain The Lovin' Spoonful est au sommet de sa carrire , aprs les tubes " Do You Believe In Magic " et " Daydream ", les sirnes de " Summer In The City " placent dfinitivement le groupe de John Sebastian au Panthon du rock. Lgret, effervescence, plnitude, les images du film promotionnel sont la traduction fidle de l'tat d'esprit du groupe durant cet t 66 .]]> text/html 2010-09-23T00:01:04+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2840437/10-tv-theme-songs-that-became-hits/
Filed under: Video , The Hit List , Television Chances are, not too many people are humming the theme songs from 'The Mentalist' or 'Law & Order: SVU.' TV themes have so diminished in importance that many of them last only 15 seconds. Back when themes lasted closer to a minute, producers put more effort into procuring good songs. As a result, those songs [...]]]> text/html 2010-07-30T13:36:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2720564/bubblegum-lemonade-and-something-for-mama/
Its unfortunate that what society considered to be Mama Cass failings have overshadowed her contributions to rock and roll music. Yes, she was overweight and, yes, she died an unfortunate death. But without her popular music would likely have traveled a much different road. Legend has it that the Lovin Spoonful was created as the result of John Sebastian meeting Jerry Yester while sitting at Cass apartment, watching the Beatles on TV. Its widely documented that she heard the voices of Crosby, Stills and Nash [...]]]> text/html 2010-07-28T05:50:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2714119/list-em-carefully-10-feel-good-hits-for-the-summer/
If you stop to think about it, summer break is a pretty cruel joke we play on ourselves. Since the moment we get into school, we dream about the three months of freedom, and like clockwork it comes every June. What they dont tell you is to live it up because theres no such thing in the working world. Yet weve been so well trained, like Pavlovs dogs, we start to drool when Memorial Day hits. The anticipation that lingers from our school days only makes it worse, like the dog hearing the bell but never getting the treat. As [...]]]> text/html 2010-07-07T15:06:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2669522/the-lovin-spoonful-summer-in-the-city/
The Lovin Spoonful - Summer in the City I trust that (for most of you, anyway) this song needs no introduction. A mid-60s classic, this song as been a staple on summer mix tapes since the minute it was possible to create a mixed tape, and if you ask me, a summer mix that doesnt contain this song isnt worth listening to. So do yourself a favor, try to stay out of this batshit-crazy heat, and while youre indoors, maybe make yourself a summer mix just make sure this songs on it.]]>