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John Sebastian composed "Nashville Cats" as an ode to the Nashville A-Team, a loose group of session musicians based in Nashville, Tennessee. [2] He later recalled that after the Lovin' Spoonful played a show in Nashville, he and Zal Yanovsky, the band's lead guitarist, were amazed by an unknown guitarist, who played the bar of the Holiday Inn hotel at which the band was staying.
The Lovin' Spoonful is an American folk-rock band formed in Greenwich Village, New York City, in 1964.The band were among the most popular groups in the United States for a short period in the mid-1960s and their music and image influenced many of the contemporary rock acts of their era.
David Paul Briggs (born March 16, 1943, in Killen, Alabama, United States) is an American keyboardist, record producer, arranger, composer, and studio owner. Briggs is one of an elite core of Nashville studio musicians known as "the Nashville Cats" and has been featured in a major exhibition by the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2015. [1]
The Spoonful recorded Hums throughout 1966, whenever they had days off from their busy touring schedule. [10] Most of the album was recorded in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, split between Columbia Records' 7th Avenue Studio and Bell Sound Studios, [11] but additional recording took place in June 1966 at an unidentified Los Angeles studio.
The Knack on a 1966 UK single (This was not the "My Sharona" The Knack, this was an earlier British band); A sound-alike version in the style of the Lovin' Spoonful's version was used in the 1966 British Antonioni film Blowup.
Billboard trade ad for the song. John Sebastian composed "Do You Believe in Magic" in May 1965. [6] Sebastian drew inspiration from a teenage girl who attended one of the Lovin' Spoonful's performances at the Night Owl Cafe, a club in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City at which the band were then holding a residency.
The Lovin' Spoonful recorded most of Daydream in four days at Bell Sound Studios in New York City, from December 13 to 16, 1965. [3] Some songs had been recorded in November, including the non-album single "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice".
Roger Miller was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the third son of Jean and Laudene (Holt) Miller.Jean Miller died from spinal meningitis when Miller was a year old. Unable to support the family during the Great Depression, [1] Laudene sent her three sons to live with three of Jean's brothers.