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Track Listing
1. Do You Believe in Magic
2. Blues in the Bottle
3. Sportin' Life
4. My Gal
5. You Baby
6. Fishin' Blues
7. Did You Ever Have to Make up Your Mind
8. Wild About My Lovin'
9. Other Side of This Life, The
10. Younger Girl
11. On the Road Again
12. Night Owl Blues
13. Alley Oop - (previously unreleased)
14. Younger Girl - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
15. Wild About My Lovin' - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
16. Blues in the Bottle - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
17. Other Side of This Life, The - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
| Details | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The Lovin' Spoonful: John Sebastian (vocals, guitar, autoharp, harmonica); Zal Yanovsky (vocals, guitar); Steve Boone (vocals, piano, bass); Joe Butler (vocals, drums).
Producer: Erik Jacobsen.
Reissue producers: Bob Irwin, Rob Santos.
Recorded at Bell Sound Studios, New York, New York and RCA Studios, Los Angeles, California.
Originally released on Kama Sutra (KLPS-8050).
Includes liner notes by Ben Edmonds.
The Lovin' Spoonful's 1965 debut set the tone for their entire career: summery good-time music with its roots in Greenwich Village's jugband folk scene of the early '60s. However, besides the massive hits of the title track and the slyly funny "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?," a good chunk of this brief album consists of snappy, slightly electrified versions of traditional American folk songs like "Blues in the Bottle" and "The Sportin' Life." The combination of these slices of juiced-up trad folk and Brill Building pop, like the Mann/Weil hit "You Baby," works better than one might expect, because John Sebastian and Zal Yanovsky, the leaders of the group, seem to make no distinctions between the two styles. Later albums would be even poppier, but DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC has a folk-rockin' charm all its own.
Industry Reviews
...MAGIC stands as a glorious aural snapshot of the summer of 1965 in New York's Greenwich Village...
Mojo (07/01/2002)
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