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Corpui Christi Cailer-Times Sun., May 29, 1966

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Sounds
Hits list Is published through the courtesy of Station
KEYS 14# Survey.
1. md You Ever
Loris* Spoonful
2. Iconic, Louie
Kinsmen
J. I Love You Drops
Don Cherry
4. Ifs a Mans World
James Brown
Mamas & Papas
I, Monday, Monday
I. Hearts Desire
Billy Joe Royal
Simon & Garfunkel
7. I Ani a Roc4
Moiling Stones
8. Paint It Blart
Hermans Hermits
I. Leaning on the Lamp Post
Bvida
19. Eight Mites High
Percy Sledge
IL When a Man Loves a Woman
Gary Lewis
ll. Green Grass
Tommy McLain
IS. Sweet Dreams
Swtngin* Medallions
14. Double Shot
Leu Christie
15. Rhapsody ti the Rata
Cvrkte
l l Red Robber Ball
Paul Revere
17. Kirks
Beach Boys
l l Sloop John B
Camps
ll. Ballad of Batmen
Walker B m .
ll. The Sun Aint Gonna Shine
Nancy Sinatra
21. How's That Grab Yan
Bob Dylan
22. Rntey Day Women 12 I SS
Roy Head
21 W iggle aid GlggHa
Gem
k
Pacemakers
24. Without Yan
Yardbirds
21 Shapes af Tkbg*
Jim Reeves
21 Distant Drams
Paai Peek
27. Pin the TIU on the Donkey
Four Seasons
28. Opus I?
Bob Moore
28. HeO's Angels
Gentry*
SI. Everyday I Have Ta Cry
FIVE COMERS
Mjprwnes
1. Loves aa Itching In my Heart
Sam the Sham
2. LH Red Riding Hood
Four More
S. Dont Give Up Hope
Beatles
4. Paperback Writer
Mouse k The Traps
I Maid of Sagar-Maid of Spice

TOP 20
NATIONALLY
AP Newsfeatares
The top 28 records of the week according to a na
tional survey.
Percy Sledge
1 When a Man Loves A Woman
Rolling Stones
2 Paint It Blart
S Monday-Monday
Mamas & Papas
Mind Benders
4 A Groovy Kind of Love
Simon k Garfunkel
5 I Am A Bort
James Brown
I Its A Mans Mans Mans World
Dionne Warwick
7 Message to Michael
Supreme*
8 Love is Like An Itching In My Heart
Bob Dylan
i Rainy Day Woman No. 12 k 35
18 Good Lovin
Young Rascals
11 Did You Eva- Have To Make Up Your
Mind
Levin Spoonful
12 Eight Miles High
Byrds
15 How Does That Grab You, Darlin
Nancy Sinatra
S-Sgt. Barry Sadler
14 The A Team
15 Sun Aint Gonna Shine
Walker Bros.
18 Kicks
Paul Revere and Raiders
17 Barefootin
Robert Parker
Yardbirds
18 Shapes of Things
lf Green Grass
Gary Lewis
28 Sloop John B.
Beach Boys

T H E LOVIN SPOONFUL
. . . th eir Did You Ever* leads th e local list

The Lovin Spoonful

THE LOVIN SPOONFUL,
whom Did You Ever was
on top of the list in Colpus
Christi last wert, got togeth
er largely by accident.
Zal and I just wandered
around the West Village, tell
ing each other that when we
needed a bass player and a
drummer, one would ap
pear, said John Sebastian.

15. He quit high school at 18

and became a folk singer.
He went to Israel for IO
months, returned, lived on
streets , . then I lived in
a
laundromat
for
7
months . .
He got a job as accom
panist for the Halifax Three
for 18 months, Crashed in
flames in California, returned
via two-passenger M.G. with
two other people and lug
gage, and met a snow storm
In Albuquerque and John Se
bastian In New York, vec
tored b art to Toronto, but it
wasnt the same.
So Zal went to Washington,
D.C., w h e r e he met an
electric guitar. He wound up
with a twelve-string guitar
and bins full of assorted elec
trical musical equipment, Zal
became a convert to reddy kil
owatt. Ifs loud, and people
dance to it, and its loud.
Later he met John again.

Sebastian, 21, plays guitar,

harmonica and autoharp.
Bora and raised in Greenwich
Village, John started playing
harmonica as a child and
guitar at 12. He lived in Italy
for five years.
After a year as a guitarmaker's apprentice, he worked
on his own as a studio har
monica player, working with
jug bands and some of the
young dty-country blues musi
cians.
Driven to despair by com
mercial folk music, John re
I was going to quit rock
tired to Marblehead, Mass.,
where he Intended to make and roll, go to Europe, go to
sails. But the man who said school, but I was awed by
he wanted a sailmaker really the musicians there, said
wanted someone to paint bot Steve Boone.
toms of boats with rust paint.
John was allergic to rust
Boone was bom in Camp
paint so be went back to New Lejeune Naval Hospital in
York and combined forces North Carolina. He is 21, 8
feet 8 Inches tall, and related
with Zal Yanovsky.
to Daniel Boones brother.
*1 dont know how it hap He also maintains his family
pened, but all of a suddea once owned the Times-Tower
there I was, playing with Building In Manhattan and
one-fifth of Delaware. Steve
John, said Zal.
started playing rhythm gui
Yanovsky, 28, lead guitar tar at 17 after an accident
ist from Toronto, Canada, which had him in traction for
started playing folk music i t two months. He got many

thousands of dollars for the* ac

cident. For several years, he
played in a swing band,
played rock and roll and
spent money. Went to Eu
rope, came back, met John
and Zal. Steve plays electric
bass.
They really didnt have
much choice. At th* time I
was the only person I know
who lived in the Village who
didnt play guitar, said Joe
Butler, the drummer.
Butler, 21, was bom In Glen
Cove, Long Island. He start
ed playing drums early, ac
companying an accordion
player when he was IS. After
high school, Joe went to col
lege, and played and sang In
a twist band in several of
the gay clubs in Long Island.
He met Steve Boone while
playing on the island He
moved to New York where he
was working with a band in
the village when he and Steve
met John and Zal.
The emergence of the Lov
in Spoonful
Immediately they dived into
the famous Greenwich Village
folk music. Their first job was
at the Night Owl Cate. Owner
Joe Maras reaction was, I

heard It all, and these guys

dont make it.
They retreated to the base
ment of the Albert Hotel Each
day they would take the
freight elevator down, the
electric stuff filling a laundry
cart. They had to cross an
enormous black pool to the
basement, which w u full of
water bugs, centipede*, and
sightless fish.
Ancient flakes would be vi
brated loose from everything
and a soft rain of plaster cov
ered The Levin' Spoonful
like dandruff. They started
wearing different funny hats
to keep their hair dean. The
lower echelons of the hotel
staff cheered them on, neglect
ing ail work for a period of
days, then the boss cracked.
After two months they
emerged, pale, blinking, and
marched on the Night Owl.
Their new professionalism to
impressed the owner that he
cheerfully rehired them for an
indefinite* period of time and
at his own expense had print
ed up 1,000 balloons saying I
Live YouThe Lovin Spoon
ful Famous names In the
entertainment field dropped
by to see them. Record com
panies made offers and theyre
still coming.

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