John Sebastian

   
Artist: John Sebastian

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Tarzana Kid

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10


   
 Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings (Rhino Handmade) cd3

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 21


   
 Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings (Rhino Handmade) cd2

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 21


   
 Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings (Rhino Handmade) cd1

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 28

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John Sebastian has had a varied career as a isaac M. Singer, ballad maker, and musician. As the leader of the folk-rock stria the Lovin' Spoonful, he was responsible for a string of Top Ten hits in 1965-1967 that included the chart-toppers "Woolgather" and "Summertime in the City," and he returned to number i in 1976 as a solo artist with "Welcome Back." He wrote or co-wrote those hits as advantageously as many others, on with songs used on Broadway and in the movies. And as an musician, chiefly playing harmonica, he has attended a broad kitchen stove of artists including Judy Collins, Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Doors, Bob Dylan, the Everly Brothers, Art Garfunkel, Gordon Lightfoot, Laura Nyro, Graham Parker, Dolly Parton, Peter, Paul & Mary, John Prine, and Bonnie Raitt.


Sebastian's father was a classical mouth harp player, his female parent a author of radio shows. He grew up in Greenwich Village, where he applied the cognition of the mouth harp he gleaned from his founder to the music of the folk resurgence that was taking position in his region in the recent '50s and early '60s. By the age of 16, he was stepping onto the stages of coffeehouses and kinfolk clubs, and by the age of 18 he was coming into court as a sideman on recordings. In 1964, he united the Even Dozen Jug Band, which made a self-titled album for Elektra Records before rending up. He was as well briefly in the Mugwumps, on with future Lovin' Spoonful guitar player Zal Yanovsky and future members of the Mamas and the Papas Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty. In the wintertime of 1964-1965, he and Yanovsky began aggregation the quartet that would go the Lovin' Spoonful, eventually adding bass participant Steve Boone and drummer Joe Butler. In the lag, he continued his session work, including playing bass on Bob Dylan's offset electric record album, Bringing It All Back Home.


The Lovin' Spoonful signed to Kama Sutra Records (an offset of MGM Records) and in the summertime of 1965 released their first single, "Do You Believe in Magic," on which he american ginseng lead vocals (as he did on all the group's singles piece he was a extremity, in gain to writing or co-writing all their hits). It seedy in the Top Ten, and so did its review, "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice," patch a Do You Believe in Magic album, released in the fall, washed-out eighter months in the charts. The third Lovin' Spoonful single, "Daydream," was a number one rack up, accompanied by a Daydream LP that reached the Top Ten. The group's fourth single, "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?," had already appeared on Do You Believe in Magic, only that didn't keep it from reaching the Top Five, and the fifth single, the well timed "Summertime in the City," became a gold-selling number one hit upon its release in the summer of 1966. The following Lovin' Spoonful spillage was a soundtrack album for the Woody Allen film What's Up, Tiger Lily?, released in September. Then came their sixth back-to-back Top Ten hit, "Rain on the Roof," followed by their seventh, "Nashville Cats," which reached its tiptop in January 1967, co-occurrent with a Top 20 exhibit for the band's third album, Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, which worn-out six-spot months in the charts. In the spring, the Lovin' Spoonful scored a second motion scene, Francis Ford Coppola's You're a Big Boy Now, from which came their following single, the Top 20 hit "Darling, Be Home Soon." "Six-spot O'Clock" gave them another Top 20 hit by June.


That summer, the isthmus ran into difficulties. Yanovsky and Boone were arrested on drug charges, resulting in Yanovsky's departure from the group; his surrogate was Jerry Yester. They likewise parted ways with their producer, Erik Jacobsen. "She's Still a Mystery" became their eleventh back-to-back Top 20 hit in November, only Sebastian was becoming disgruntled, and after complemental a twenty-five percent LP, Everything Playing (which produced a minor chart launching in "Money"), released at the ending of the yr, he take leave the band. During 1968, he began working on solo material, considering, merely at long last rejecting, an offer to join a three of his friends world Health Organization went on to become Crosby, Stills & Nash. He likewise wrote some songs used in a Broadway play, Jimmy Shine, starring Dustin Hoffman; among them was "She's a Lady," a minor chart launching for him at the end of 1968. That single was released on Kama Sutra, only Sebastian had determined to leave the label and he signed to Warner Bros. Records' Reprise subsidiary company. Kama Sutra, however, felt he silent owed them an record album, and a legal battle ensued which delayed the release of his debut solo record album for a year. Although Reprise north Korean won the correct to button John B. Sebastian, and did so in January 1970, Kama Sutra's parent party, MGM, exploitation second-generation tapes of the criminal record in its will power, besides place out its have version of the LP, which was then indrawn.


In the lag, Sebastian had made an accidental but memorable appearance at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969. Not scheduled to appear, but still present backstage (and somewhat the worse for wear due to recreational do drugs use), he was pressed into service during a localize change and gave a brief, well-received performance. Hobbled by the MGM counterfeit, John B. Sebastian nonetheless managed to clear the Top 20 in the spring of 1970 and Sebastian's solo life history really took cancelled when he was featured on the chart-topping Woodstock soundtrack album in May and in the documentary photographic film that opened in August. Unfortunately, MGM wasn't through harassing him. The label obtained a tape of a concert he performed in July 1970 and released it under the title John Sebastian Live. Another legal battle ensued, and this album overly was withdrawn. But Sebastian was determined to put out a competing record album as well, and the solution was Cheapo-Cheapo Productions Presents Real Live John Sebastian, released in March 1971. Both albums took advantage of the singer's iconic status as a careen fete favourite, brandishing his acoustic guitar, wearing a tie-dyed jean suit, and pleasing giant crowds at such Woodstock-like events as the Atlanta Pop Festival, the Isle of Wight Festival, and the Festival of Life in 1970-1971.


Sebastian released his second studio album, The Four of Us, in August 1971, featuring the ambitious title caterpillar tread, which took up all of side deuce; it sold disappointingly. Tarzana Kid, which followed in September 1974, lost the charts only, and Sebastian's recording life history was nearly moribund when he was asked to save a subject song for a newfangled television system series, Receive Back, Kotter, which premiered in September 1975. Sebastian was besides heard telling his vocal, "Welcome Back," all over the credits each hebdomad. Welcome Back, Kotter became a success, and Reprise released a single edition of the song dynasty, which topped the charts in May 1976 and went gold. A Welcome Back LP besides returned Sebastian to the album charts. But that disc completed his recording get, and "Welcome Back" proved to be a one-off success rather than a real commercial return.


For the next 17 age, Sebastian performed concerts, made guest appearances on other artists' records, and did occasional soundtrack work. In 1993, the independent Shanachie Records label at long last redact out his fifth studio apartment album, Tar Beach. He then teamed up with a group of old friends and returned to playing the jugful band music he had started with second in Greenwich Village more than 30 long time before, forming a grouping he called John Sebastian and the J-Band and issuing I Want My Roots (1996) and Chasin' Gus' Ghost (1999). As region of the Lovin' Spoonful, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.





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