The Lovin' Spoonful – Greatest Hits

Description

Way more than a spoonful of their best-26 tracks on one
CD! This is their first collection digitally remastered from the original
master tapes, so their Top 10 hits Summer in the City; Daydream; Did You Ever
Have to Make Up Your Mind?; Nashville Cats; Do You Believe in Magic; You
Didn’t Have to Be So Nice , and Rain on the Roof have never sounded better.
It sometimes feels as though the Lovin’ Spoonful have been reduced
to a footnote in the history of rock & roll. Yet few of their contemporaries
could match the likes of “Daydream,” “Summer in the City,” and the
transcendent “Do You Believe in Magic?”–a song that can still turn January
into June. Legend has it that the Spoonful auditioned for The Monkees, and
they’d have been good in those roles, having the right candy-sweet sound and a
warm humor in constant evidence. But it wouldn’t have lasted: lead songwriter
John Sebastian was too willful and idiosyncratic, coming on like an American
Ray Davies on songs such as “Younger Generation,” a prescient meditation on
the hippie generation’s future parental dilemmas. Greatest Hits is a fine
26-song introduction to a perennially underrated band. –Taylor Parkes

Features:

Product Details:

• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches; 2.4 Ounces
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Sony Legacy
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2148367
• Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2000
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 6 minutes
• SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2006
• Label ‏ : ‎ Sony Legacy