Introduced by Peter Noone ( Of Herman's Hermits ) shows how things have changed. At that time there seemed to be a mutual respect and adoration of one-another's talents without all the egotistical self-seeking B.S. we see in today's world.
John Lennon singing the song, Ringo playing the drums in the back, Paul McCartney playing his guitar the wrong way, and George Harrison jamming next to him and helping with the chorus. What a great band!
John still lives in Woodstock, NY. Always will love the Lovin' Spoonful and John Sebastian. Timesless music...and I am so fortunate to have lived through this era in music!
The only thing live here is the lead vocal. It's sung over the original studio track (both music and backing vocal track(s). I don't think Sebastian trusted the others to pull off the backing vocals. Sounds great, nonetheless ...
@LOOKN450 I saw the Spoonful do this live more times than I can remember and they were great. Joe Butler could really sing and they managed a harmony for back up in live performances that was very good. It ws a dub but I don't think it was a dub because of John's worry about the vocals as much as dubbing on TV was done frequently for ease of broadcasting .Zally is obviously not playing the guitar in this video yet we know he won Playboy's Poll for best lead guitarist.
This comes from a time of great musical diversity, and we were able to like or love each style of music in its own style. If you look at the other music from this era you will see what I mean, it all exploded out on us, so many types from this to psychedelic and pop. It is a great song
Love this song, and it seems like they were actually performing live (most bands on tv were lip-synching). I do wonder about the short pants though... :-D
Another perfect example that musical expression doesn't need to be full of anger, overly-complicated, or full of "deep" meaning. Beautiful harmonies and simple, catchy riffs have always worked... and always will. This song is over 45 years old and still sounds fresh. Not many songs from today's generation will endure a tenth as long!
On the heels of the Beatles, Stones and Animals. And Motown. And there I was, turning 14 in 1965, living in northeast Detroit. What did I do to deserve such perfection? It simply could not be better, even with all the problems we all share (no Dad here). It's been a great ride. I hope I get another couple decades of it, and music I love like this.
I remember this so well. It reminds me of a better time. John Sebastion was such a mega talent. Somehow his fellow band members weren't that serious about their musical career. All they...or Zal.... thought about was having a good time.
Zal looks like he belongs in that Beatles parody band from the Flintstones. I think they were called the Bugs (or something to that effect). Anyway, he has that long, lean stature and that shaggy hair covering his eyes that I remember about those cartoon "Bugs."
songs like this are reall good and THE SOUND OF MUSIC CHANGED EVERY 5 YEARS just like the CARS (this song wouldnt have made it 2 years before)--now year in and year out, its the SAME THING---rap and rock same old bore and filth
This song evokes feelings of pure joy. I want to put many chained daisies atop my head and frolic about the meadows with my beloved whenever I hear it.
Man are you and I the only ones who has any musical intelligence , OMg yes John Sebastian is was and will always be a master of lyrical song writing and performance, keep it rockin smogg=
So many wonderful memories hearing these songs again. So many of the songs of that time made you feel good or really think. I have been fortunate to have seen John Sebastian in concert twice in the last 10 years- what a great performer!
I love this guys. His music charge my soul with feelings of happiness and hope. In the musical "dark ages" we live today, thank you very much john Sebastian..
between Hullabaloo, Shindig on NBC and Rick Scklar's programmed Musicrado 77 WABC ( and WMBA goodguys) this was my childhood on the onld Zenith transistor radio under my pillow at night when I was supposed to be asleep in my room in Queens, NYC...LOL Like yesterday..these records will always be with me.
Good morning, do you like sixties? Listen and pod cast my program " great sound of 60' s " on the site plumfm. Greeting and made blooper in rock and roll.
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Yeah, I see a lot of kids now doing the old combing forward and training a split in their hairline 60's kids look. It came up around almost two years ago, I think it's great because there were some really lousy haircuts going around in the mid 90's and early '00's, and boys aren't regarding others with more than 5 inches of hair on their heads insulting names/questioning sexuality which always is a bad thing to do, squashing a person's right to individuality and to wear their hair as they like
Saw John Sebastian back in 2002 or 2003 while volunteering as an usher in a performance arts center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He had recently undergone some sort of throat surgery and we could hardly hear his voice. But the audience loved him so much, even if he was louder we still probably couldn't have heard him, what with the applause and shouts of happiness (especially when he started playing "What a Day For a Daydream") and it was still a great show. John is such a lovable character!
I was just a little girl and I would help my older sister make the bed on Saturday mornings....she always had her radio on...so, naturally, these songs have stayed in my radio head. Kinda nice to hear something happy for a change.
The themes of falling in love...quiet ways...destiny...beauty...togetherness...and nicety are what preserve this song and all those folksy ballad rock 'n roll songs of a much different generation. I'm so glad I grew up in the 60s and that my 50 cents a week allowance (for chores completed) afforded me enough to buy 2 new 45s (a quarter a piece!!), this one being one of my favorite purchases after watching them on Hullaballo with my girlfriend, Marsha. Thanks for posting this gem!
All these comments, particularly from JohnStick22,Doleafol and rattydet are spot on. They were truly a GREAT, under-rated group, and this song is up there with their best (just behind the marvellous Darling Be Home Soon). Great era, great music!
Yes, John wrote and sang the theme song to "Welcome Back Kotter". John wrote some of the best music with so many great hooks. For some reason, I always loved the back up vocals on this song here "You didn't have to be so nice"
for those of you who do not know, the Lovin' Spoonful took their name from a report on sexual behavior published by Dr. Kinsey. In this report he states that the average male ejaculation is approximately one tablespoon, hence, because the male ejaculation was at that time considered to be an act of love, they put the two thoughts togeter and became The Lovin' Spoonful.
And for the person that mentioned Peter Noone and the Lovin' Spoonful, you mean John Sebastian.
@Dalamar518 The group's name actually comes from a song by Mississippi John Hurt called Coffee Blues: "I wanna see my baby 'bout a lovin' spoonful, my lovin' spoonful." Not unlike the way the Rolling Stones came from a Muddy Waters song.
Im 13,And I listen to alot of the rock from the 60s...The Beatles,The Doors,The Monkees,The Zombies,Deep Purple,The Animals,Paul Revere And The Raiders,Ect. My dad told me about these guys and I gave them a listen...And,They are awesome!
I don't care what kind of day your having or what kind of mood your in, play a little Lovin' Spoonful music and you can't help but SMILE :) and have a great day
I cant help but wonder how many songs we missed after the guitarist left in '67 and then JS in early '68, because there was no letting up till then. I wish there was more than pretty much 65-67...oh well.
This song was played in a Sprint commercial I believe and it's a cool song and time.Did u all know that the drummer is the father of Yancy Butler of Witchblade fame?
This is a beautiful record...you cannot pick any flaw in the song! It embodies all the expectation fulfilled that you could ever ask in a relationship beginning to bloom. And "further on up the road" that experience should never be forgotten if you were fortunate enough to experience it!
OMG! I love every single word and note of this song... I'm 27 but I feel the love song from those days say a lot more and in a much better way than the present ones...
My daughters and I love 60's music. My parents were flower children, so I was raised in this music. I remember listening to this song as a little girl in the summer living in Colorado. My 6yo says this sounds like a Christmas song. Too cute.
I grew up on this. Mostly 50's and 60's music. I love it so much, that I feel like I was born too late. Silly I know. But I did introduce this era to my children. two beautiful girls, 15 and 6. This is their favorite song. And the rockers from today are styled like the 60's, which I think is great.
WolfEchoes I agree, I'am from that era and it was a beautiful time! I have a daughter in college and my son a senior in high school and they love this stuff! Thank you so much for the posting
I'm afraid this was lip-synching, although at it's best. You can tell by all the lush instrumentation included in the original. Still one of the most under-rated groups of the 60's.
PS...best as I can remember, I never wore my jeans 3 inches above my ankles, boots or not!
I am from this time. Funny thing is that I am starting to see these hairstyles and fashions leaching into what young people are wearing at the clubs. They must be coming to see these old vids at Youtube.
Love it ! Doesn't' get any better than John Sebastian and the Loving' Spoonful ! Thanks guys for doing that song. It brings back lot's of memories from a love affair I had with the most beautiful woman back in the '60's/'70's when my children were born.I can't forget the Marines and 'Nam ... Lost so many friends and brothers. Guys I miss you always !
Hurt by lies, buy sitll loving the " lovin' spoonful" thanks John and the rest of the band., and brothers in NAM.
@salinagrrrl69 You cant be from this time, you where born 69 like me, we're are from the 70's we know about the 60 and 50 where grew up with we are old school enough to know it.
John Sebastian was clearly a trendsetter... Even in eyewear. He was sporting the round glasses long before Lennon!
jkyax 2 weeks ago
It's interesting to see John Sebastian playing a Les Paul. They weren't really popular until Jimmy Page started playing them.
jdbaken 3 weeks ago
Introduced by Peter Noone ( Of Herman's Hermits ) shows how things have changed. At that time there seemed to be a mutual respect and adoration of one-another's talents without all the egotistical self-seeking B.S. we see in today's world.
65rock4ever 1 month ago
So nice!
ACERAMGAD 1 month ago
@DaJayManable :D 3
crazysingingchick 1 month ago
whoa... the bassist looks like he's pushing seven feet tall.
gigantes1966 1 month ago
John Lennon singing the song, Ringo playing the drums in the back, Paul McCartney playing his guitar the wrong way, and George Harrison jamming next to him and helping with the chorus. What a great band!
DaftD0g 1 month ago
John still lives in Woodstock, NY. Always will love the Lovin' Spoonful and John Sebastian. Timesless music...and I am so fortunate to have lived through this era in music!
jcp0129eek 1 month ago
CAN'T HELP BUT FUCKIN SMILE AT JOHNNY AND THE BOY'S TIMELESS TUNES!
luvtotruck 1 month ago
What happened to the group??
Thanks Oscar........ California
1eclipsedheart 1 month ago
Peter noone :)I think he's a bit better than the lovin spoonful
The5thBeatle2010 2 months ago
...and then John Sebastian sang and performed the theme song for Welcome Back Kotter 10 years later!
truthaintpretty 2 months ago
Beautiful song from a good band
bobwarren47 4 months ago
Is that Peter Noone who introduced them?
georgeharrison22543 4 months ago
@georgeharrison22543 Yes, that is Peter Noone.
whatthedormousesaid 4 months ago
i wish highwaters would come back again!! maybe even puddle jumpers
powerdiesel001 5 months ago
this takes me back...christmas 1965 i went to visit my grandma who lived in miami florida..i was 17 and a virgin...
my grandma had a cleaning lady named Doris...she was in her 30's and very attractive
when my grandma went out shopping one day..Doris seduced me...my first time...and guess what song was playing on my transistor radio?
this one...."you didnt have to be so nice"...fitting isnt it
when i hear this song it takes me back to that moment in time
i often wonder what happened to doris
ChiroQuacker 5 months ago
@ChiroQuacker b.s.
kirbyks 4 months ago
@kirbyks
you must be a liar....people who b.s. a lot often accuse others of being liars....
dont take it out on me that your balding and a limp noodle....
ChiroQuacker 4 months ago
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@ChiroQuacker Methinks thou dost protest too much
kirbyks 4 months ago
8 ppl don't know how it feels to be nice
hellobojidar123 5 months ago
Lordy... I had such a crush on the singer!.... Musta been his glasses, lol.
Great oldie, thanks for the post!
LaniElkhart 5 months ago
The only thing live here is the lead vocal. It's sung over the original studio track (both music and backing vocal track(s). I don't think Sebastian trusted the others to pull off the backing vocals. Sounds great, nonetheless ...
LOOKN450 5 months ago
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@LOOKN450 I saw the Spoonful do this live more times than I can remember and they were great. Joe Butler could really sing and they managed a harmony for back up in live performances that was very good. It ws a dub but I don't think it was a dub because of John's worry about the vocals as much as dubbing on TV was done frequently for ease of broadcasting .Zally is obviously not playing the guitar in this video yet we know he won Playboy's Poll for best lead guitarist.
eddiemaysm 5 months ago
Boy, Peter Noone looks so YOUNG...
BelindaKyle 5 months ago
This comes from a time of great musical diversity, and we were able to like or love each style of music in its own style. If you look at the other music from this era you will see what I mean, it all exploded out on us, so many types from this to psychedelic and pop. It is a great song
mrwilson41 5 months ago
Try Astrud Gilberto version - it´s also good
otherbirdofprey 6 months ago
Wagner beats this crap
ThePaxip 6 months ago
great song
shanehenning26 6 months ago
The beautiful part of 60's spirit. Thank you for post!
rcentinella 6 months ago
this group would of been a lot bigger if john sebastion wasnt so ugly.
pbrick6301 6 months ago
I've always thought that this was their best song. The backgound vocals are simply brilliant...try listening to this song with headphones in stereo.
Great song!
Steve915 6 months ago
@Steve915 I agree with you. What happened to John Sebastian's zither? He did use that strange instrument in the early days of their career.
royko22 6 months ago
@royko22
The instrument was called an Autoharp. John used it in many recordings up to the end of the band.
japonaliya 6 months ago
Love this song, and it seems like they were actually performing live (most bands on tv were lip-synching). I do wonder about the short pants though... :-D
joe44850 6 months ago
Lovin group with lovely music!!
barbarac102 7 months ago
some stage hand should take the freeloader girl looking thru the prop airplane and throw her out the back door on her head.
pbrick6301 7 months ago
If you've run out of happy, listen to this. What a great song from an innocent age..
Rubysgrrl 7 months ago 4
Is Sebastian's mic stand fully.extended? The poor guys is gonna have back problems when he gets older if he keeps this up.
BadErnest 7 months ago
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@BadErnest - 'Is Sebastian's mic stand fully.extended? The poor guys is gonna have back problems when he gets older if he keeps this up.'
When he gets older? I believe he is already there!
48Sage 7 months ago
Wheres Wally had a band?
IsaacBassMaster 8 months ago
Another perfect example that musical expression doesn't need to be full of anger, overly-complicated, or full of "deep" meaning. Beautiful harmonies and simple, catchy riffs have always worked... and always will. This song is over 45 years old and still sounds fresh. Not many songs from today's generation will endure a tenth as long!
Dayga 8 months ago 5
On the heels of the Beatles, Stones and Animals. And Motown. And there I was, turning 14 in 1965, living in northeast Detroit. What did I do to deserve such perfection? It simply could not be better, even with all the problems we all share (no Dad here). It's been a great ride. I hope I get another couple decades of it, and music I love like this.
grindlbebe 8 months ago 7
gotta love those background ooooo's :D
demonmama 8 months ago 2
I love John
LSD0Moon 9 months ago
is that peter noone?
flux688 9 months ago
@flux688 yes
imamymay 8 months ago
@flux688 Yes.
Tater1951 7 months ago
This is what I miss abiut the 60s. People just singing a song. No screaming, no runs, no vocal acrobatics. Just a nice song, sung nicely!
Bogframe 9 months ago 4
Awesome melody!! The harmony is great! And to think the "best vocals" we have now are in American Idol...God, I wish I was born in the 60's
ghnunes 9 months ago
Is there any way we can just make everything STOP and turn the clock back to 1965?
Countrygent100 9 months ago 4
what a great song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
utubesux691 9 months ago 3
Pure pop gold. A truly great band.
TOBERT001 10 months ago 3
I remember this so well. It reminds me of a better time. John Sebastion was such a mega talent. Somehow his fellow band members weren't that serious about their musical career. All they...or Zal.... thought about was having a good time.
debro52 10 months ago
Great song by the lovin soonful!!!
Nickie0016 10 months ago 2
Zal looks like he belongs in that Beatles parody band from the Flintstones. I think they were called the Bugs (or something to that effect). Anyway, he has that long, lean stature and that shaggy hair covering his eyes that I remember about those cartoon "Bugs."
Doleafol 10 months ago
If ever anyone who runs festivals needs good entertainment-hire these guys, real professional gentlemen who give a great show!!!
mr22ron 10 months ago
WLS time!!
ondacableair 10 months ago
songs like this are reall good and THE SOUND OF MUSIC CHANGED EVERY 5 YEARS just like the CARS (this song wouldnt have made it 2 years before)--now year in and year out, its the SAME THING---rap and rock same old bore and filth
49jubilee 10 months ago 2
6 people think rap is good
blazer53 10 months ago
A great sound...led by a great lead singer!
Hawkeye752 10 months ago 2
6 people: How can you dislike such a song like this?
Must be listening to Justin Beiber instead.
Knightphall 10 months ago 3
From the first time I heard this as a little kid I've been utterly entranced by it, what an exquisite song!
Babyhowdy233 10 months ago 2
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Zal Yanovsky...he was the man...
doubleotwentyone 10 months ago
Zal Yanowsky...he was the man...
doubleotwentyone 10 months ago
lol I used to think this was a new song in the 80s definitely a memorable song!
coolbluelights 11 months ago
joey ramone on bass...lol
yarekhunt 11 months ago
@yarekhunt
Zal was actually the lead guitarist, it was Steve who played bass.
Babyhowdy233 10 months ago
one of my all time fav songs!!!
bluegrassreb1 11 months ago 4
very motown style and harmony
gackstacker 11 months ago
@gackstacker only motown would have followed up with 5 songs that sounded virtually the same.
MrSluggo666 11 months ago
This song evokes feelings of pure joy. I want to put many chained daisies atop my head and frolic about the meadows with my beloved whenever I hear it.
crazysingingchick 11 months ago 32
@crazysingingchick Me too! I want to frolic about the meadows with your beloved as well!
DaJayManable 1 month ago
@smogpump
Man are you and I the only ones who has any musical intelligence , OMg yes John Sebastian is was and will always be a master of lyrical song writing and performance, keep it rockin smogg=
blueprint4blues 11 months ago 2
6 people didn't have to be so mean.
uzi4u182 11 months ago 51
@uzi4u182 dont worry, 3 months later and there's still only 6 people, not more than that!
thegame3623 8 months ago
@uzi4u182 You wouldn't have liked them anyway :)
GYPSYGIRL80 1 month ago
Love this song; it's one of my all time favorites. Makes me smile! Love the "high water" pants and boots. They are so cute.
mabdog1988 1 year ago
So many wonderful memories hearing these songs again. So many of the songs of that time made you feel good or really think. I have been fortunate to have seen John Sebastian in concert twice in the last 10 years- what a great performer!
sooznd 1 year ago
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sooznd 1 year ago
What the hell happened? I mean to music.
theNifflefoot 1 year ago
They defined growing up 60"s Jewsih.
freddygoldstein 1 year ago
my guitar gawd back in the day
sirwob 1 year ago
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they sound better in person. love thar beat and tempo
hussnfussel 1 year ago
they vsound better in person. love thar beat and tempo
hussnfussel 1 year ago
nothing beats 60s set designs.
jbdean55 1 year ago
@jbdean55
I was thinking the same thing.
DaysOfPineAndRoses 1 year ago
great tune,great playing...
musefan69 1 year ago
makes me want to cry, 2011 fucking sucks. D:
WHY WASNT I BORN BACK THEN!!?!?!?
SuperPrismatic 1 year ago
@SuperPrismatic It'll get better, trust me.......
zenileon 1 year ago
I love this guys. His music charge my soul with feelings of happiness and hope. In the musical "dark ages" we live today, thank you very much john Sebastian..
lorddinaire 1 year ago
between Hullabaloo, Shindig on NBC and Rick Scklar's programmed Musicrado 77 WABC ( and WMBA goodguys) this was my childhood on the onld Zenith transistor radio under my pillow at night when I was supposed to be asleep in my room in Queens, NYC...LOL Like yesterday..these records will always be with me.
mooseydeucy 1 year ago
Check out the 'burst! Wonder if he still has it?
jnf91 1 year ago
Love Zal and that wild Guild guitar he played
pretorious700 1 year ago
@pretorious700 Didn't he get drafted and shiped off to Nam??? I think i rember reading that in my Tiger Beat Mag back then..
shakedownstreet48 1 year ago
@shakedownstreet48 Possibly, the 60's were a lot of brain cells ago, though.
pretorious700 1 year ago
The Spoonful were so great. Hit after hit after hit. I sure miss those days.
bobufer 1 year ago 2
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Good morning, do you like sixties? Listen and pod cast my program " great sound of 60' s " on the site plumfm. Greeting and made blooper in rock and roll.
Salut, vous aimez les sixties ? Ecoutez et podcatez mon émission "le super son des sixties" sur plum fm. Salut et faites gaffe au rock'n roll.
supersondessixties 1 year ago
We are getting beautiful people but the politicians from this era aren't remembering the message "to be so nice."
jokermausland 1 year ago 2
John S. is a great guy, though his pants are a tad too short.
RipARipeBanana 1 year ago
@RipARipeBanana He was a good looking dude!
zenileon 1 year ago
Yeah, I see a lot of kids now doing the old combing forward and training a split in their hairline 60's kids look. It came up around almost two years ago, I think it's great because there were some really lousy haircuts going around in the mid 90's and early '00's, and boys aren't regarding others with more than 5 inches of hair on their heads insulting names/questioning sexuality which always is a bad thing to do, squashing a person's right to individuality and to wear their hair as they like
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The guy who introduces them is Herman Hermits Vocalist XD
ryumishima44 1 year ago
The guy who introduces them is Herman Hermits Vocalist
ryumishima44 1 year ago
@ryumishima44 Yeah, Herman (Peter Noone)
pretorious700 1 year ago
Saw John Sebastian back in 2002 or 2003 while volunteering as an usher in a performance arts center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He had recently undergone some sort of throat surgery and we could hardly hear his voice. But the audience loved him so much, even if he was louder we still probably couldn't have heard him, what with the applause and shouts of happiness (especially when he started playing "What a Day For a Daydream") and it was still a great show. John is such a lovable character!
MsHatesHaters 1 year ago
I was just a little girl and I would help my older sister make the bed on Saturday mornings....she always had her radio on...so, naturally, these songs have stayed in my radio head. Kinda nice to hear something happy for a change.
leahlanora 1 year ago
These guys were pretty good...
biskitlee 1 year ago
The themes of falling in love...quiet ways...destiny...beauty...togetherness...and nicety are what preserve this song and all those folksy ballad rock 'n roll songs of a much different generation. I'm so glad I grew up in the 60s and that my 50 cents a week allowance (for chores completed) afforded me enough to buy 2 new 45s (a quarter a piece!!), this one being one of my favorite purchases after watching them on Hullaballo with my girlfriend, Marsha. Thanks for posting this gem!
dlynnatkinson 1 year ago
FABULOUS !!!!!!!!!!
oceanbound222 1 year ago
All these comments, particularly from JohnStick22,Doleafol and rattydet are spot on. They were truly a GREAT, under-rated group, and this song is up there with their best (just behind the marvellous Darling Be Home Soon). Great era, great music!
john8pies 1 year ago
great tune from a great era
rattydet 1 year ago
I LOVE that auto-harp sound. I used to think they played this song with Bells, as a kid. :D
dblreppuken 1 year ago
Sixties rock/pop music by the Lovin' Spoonful at it's finest!
A simple, yet positive message that today seems somewhat forgotten.
Let us not forget the Lovin' Spoonful!
Scottstunesful 1 year ago
nice video thanks for posting
partyspecialists 1 year ago
Zal's and John's dancing.. :)
AlexLuvsFunDip 1 year ago
Beautiful song, wonderful band, but either the cockney or the scouse bus-driver is lost....
floydyopz 1 year ago
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i like their clothes !! and their whole style!
i love this song!! gets you in a good mood!!!:)
MsLinzoo 1 year ago
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i like their clothes !!
i love this song!! gets you in a good mood!!!:)
MsLinzoo 1 year ago
i like their clothes!!
i love this song !!! its so good gets you in a good mood!:)
MsLinzoo 1 year ago
Didn't John Sabastion sing the theme to Welcom Back Kotter???
SomethngBoutMary 1 year ago
@SomethngBoutMary
Yes, John wrote and sang the theme song to "Welcome Back Kotter". John wrote some of the best music with so many great hooks. For some reason, I always loved the back up vocals on this song here "You didn't have to be so nice"
SThompsonRAMM 1 year ago
great song
bonusbmusic 1 year ago
Luv it! Hey, come to think of it...our generation may have been the first to spell love that way!
grayvicle 1 year ago
John Lennon copied Sebastian in a lot of things...Glasses one of them.
4848larry 1 year ago
@4848larry Everybody had those glasses.
misred1 1 year ago
my favorite spoon song!
dean12310 1 year ago
Granny glasses FTW
jhesrv 1 year ago
Zal Yanovsky was so cool!
kerchew 1 year ago
sup wid the hand in the jacket?:D
chiachhu 1 year ago
for those of you who do not know, the Lovin' Spoonful took their name from a report on sexual behavior published by Dr. Kinsey. In this report he states that the average male ejaculation is approximately one tablespoon, hence, because the male ejaculation was at that time considered to be an act of love, they put the two thoughts togeter and became The Lovin' Spoonful.
And for the person that mentioned Peter Noone and the Lovin' Spoonful, you mean John Sebastian.
Dalamar518 1 year ago
@Dalamar518 The group's name actually comes from a song by Mississippi John Hurt called Coffee Blues: "I wanna see my baby 'bout a lovin' spoonful, my lovin' spoonful." Not unlike the way the Rolling Stones came from a Muddy Waters song.
darkhorse1957 1 year ago
Im 13,And I listen to alot of the rock from the 60s...The Beatles,The Doors,The Monkees,The Zombies,Deep Purple,The Animals,Paul Revere And The Raiders,Ect. My dad told me about these guys and I gave them a listen...And,They are awesome!
GeannieIsAwesone 1 year ago
@GeannieIsAwesone Good for you! Your dad did good!!!
SomethngBoutMary 1 year ago
LOVE THIS, Peter Noone & The Lovin' Spoonful!! thanks for this rare clip!!!
MsJune54 1 year ago
Great Song, especially for this Hot summer
tellthetruthoryour 1 year ago
I don't care what kind of day your having or what kind of mood your in, play a little Lovin' Spoonful music and you can't help but SMILE :) and have a great day
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PixieDust19962 1 year ago
Loved them! and Peter Noone adorable introducung them
barbarac102 1 year ago
Wow they look a lot younger than when i met them lol :) love this song
Hyphen288 1 year ago
Pretty nice, with Peter "Herman" Noon introduction!
1963Pure 1 year ago
couldnt resist picking this out on guitar
bruces3 1 year ago
I cant help but wonder how many songs we missed after the guitarist left in '67 and then JS in early '68, because there was no letting up till then. I wish there was more than pretty much 65-67...oh well.
bruces3 1 year ago
I was 16 when this came out. I saw a girl at a party that knocked me out. EVERY time I hear this song I thought of her -- funny, I still do.
BIGKELL9614 1 year ago
Magical performance, a wonderful song that should have been a monster hit- but wasn't, one of my favourite 60's tracks,the brilliant John Sebastian.
flammasherman 1 year ago
Great song. I love John. Thanks for the time.
zephrah 1 year ago
This song was played in a Sprint commercial I believe and it's a cool song and time.Did u all know that the drummer is the father of Yancy Butler of Witchblade fame?
JAA2090 1 year ago
wow....I love this song...thanks for posting...
sunnsight 1 year ago
Peter Noone always was such a fucking cock.
Widmerpool99 1 year ago
@Widmerpool99 I thought it was "Moon" xD
PixieDust19962 1 year ago
I Love The Lovin Spoonful!
JustStoppedBy1 1 year ago 2
High School days. Forever.
innerhappiness 1 year ago 2
FYI ... also the singer (John Sebastian) who sang "Welcome Back" ( Welcome Back Kotter}
IQQIQQI 1 year ago
This is a beautiful record...you cannot pick any flaw in the song! It embodies all the expectation fulfilled that you could ever ask in a relationship beginning to bloom. And "further on up the road" that experience should never be forgotten if you were fortunate enough to experience it!
seymouro 1 year ago
OMG! I love every single word and note of this song... I'm 27 but I feel the love song from those days say a lot more and in a much better way than the present ones...
This is a great group
delionvanadis 1 year ago 2
The lead singer looks almost excatly like Skippy from Family Ties
lizziefan84 1 year ago
The genius that is John Sebastian. May he have many more Birthdays to come....
Bolly558 1 year ago
Happy Birthday John Sebastian 3/17
TBDDevastator1 1 year ago 2
My daughters and I love 60's music. My parents were flower children, so I was raised in this music. I remember listening to this song as a little girl in the summer living in Colorado. My 6yo says this sounds like a Christmas song. Too cute.
MissyDeRail 1 year ago 2
I grew up on this. Mostly 50's and 60's music. I love it so much, that I feel like I was born too late. Silly I know. But I did introduce this era to my children. two beautiful girls, 15 and 6. This is their favorite song. And the rockers from today are styled like the 60's, which I think is great.
MissyDeRail 1 year ago
F___ing Awesome! Thanx for upload!
javierburboa 1 year ago 2
John Playing A 59 Burst.
LesPaulBearer 1 year ago
very sweet song! makes me think of my bf
KDevilUsed 1 year ago
sounds like "christmas comes this time each year."
winggoddess 1 year ago
porridgeeveryday, cool account name!
TBDDevastator1 1 year ago
they were unknown in the uk in 1965.
porridgeeveryday 1 year ago
WolfEchoes I agree, I'am from that era and it was a beautiful time! I have a daughter in college and my son a senior in high school and they love this stuff! Thank you so much for the posting
fuzzicasi 1 year ago
MY ACCOUNT NAME IS FROM THEM (even though they're not my favorite band)
LovinSporkful 1 year ago 5
I'm afraid this was lip-synching, although at it's best. You can tell by all the lush instrumentation included in the original. Still one of the most under-rated groups of the 60's.
PS...best as I can remember, I never wore my jeans 3 inches above my ankles, boots or not!
3Rubee 1 year ago
Sebastian is singing live to the original backing track here so no lipsynching.
lonedrone 1 year ago
Excellent video, though personally I prefer their more folksy tunes. :D
monkeylad44 1 year ago
How nice to have a clip of a performance that was actually live...back in the era where lipsynching was the rule.
mthivier 1 year ago
Just adored this band, so laid back but very clever songwriting by John Sebastian.
Goblinshead 2 years ago
I saw these guys at the "Rugged Room" in Denver CO in 65' They impressed me so much.
John Sabastian has never received the acclain he deserves as a song writer. What a great band!
cindyincolorado 2 years ago 8
I am from this time. Funny thing is that I am starting to see these hairstyles and fashions leaching into what young people are wearing at the clubs. They must be coming to see these old vids at Youtube.
salinagrrrl69 2 years ago 26
It was a beautiful time!
Let us hope we are getting beautiful people in these more ugly times...
WolfEchoes 2 years ago 27
@WolfEchoes Yes it was.
Love it ! Doesn't' get any better than John Sebastian and the Loving' Spoonful ! Thanks guys for doing that song. It brings back lot's of memories from a love affair I had with the most beautiful woman back in the '60's/'70's when my children were born.I can't forget the Marines and 'Nam ... Lost so many friends and brothers. Guys I miss you always !
Hurt by lies, buy sitll loving the " lovin' spoonful" thanks John and the rest of the band., and brothers in NAM.
Gary M.
gmont50 1 year ago 2
@WolfEchoes God! We've had two spying scandals in the west, plus student riots, here in the UK, it seems to be a case of here we go again!!!
zenileon 1 year ago
@salinagrrrl69 You cant be from this time, you where born 69 like me, we're are from the 70's we know about the 60 and 50 where grew up with we are old school enough to know it.
jason75 1 year ago