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John Sebastian
12+ albums
folksinger-songwriterrockclassic rockwoodstock
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John Sebastian (born John Benson Sebastian on 17 March 1944, in Greenwich Village, New York City) is an American songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. His tie-dyed denim jacket is prominently displayed there. Early in their recording and airwave career, Lovin' Spoonful members termed their approach "good-time music". Unlike many pop groups of the day, the Lovin' Spoonful played all the instruments on their records, and aside from a few covers, wrote all their own material. His group The Lovin' Spoonful played a major role in the mid-'60s rock revolution, but what leader, singer and songwriter Sebastian had in mind was actually a counter-revolution. "We were grateful to the Beatles for reminding us our rock & roll roots," John explains, "but we wanted to cut out the English middlemen, so to speak, and get down to making this new music as an 'American' band." This the Lovin' Spoonful did like nobody before or since, putting their first seven singles into the Top 10. This was unprecedented, and utterly unthinkable at the height of Beatlemania. At first they'd taken older material from blues, country, folk and jug band sources - what we now term "roots music" - and made it sound modern. Then, in a series of original songs composed and sung by John Sebastian, they did the reverse, creating thoroughly modern music that sounded like it contained the entire history of Amer
top songs
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Welcome Back (Theme from Welcome Back, Kotter)
19,4382Welcome Back
11,4633I Had a Dream
8,0784Welcome Back [Theme from Welcome Back, Kotter]
6,5165Rainbows All Over Your Blues
6,1056Red Eye Express (Live)
4,7917Tappin' That Thing
3,4318You're a Big Boy Now - 2007 Remaster
3,2749You're A Big Boy Now
2,75310Darlin' Companion - Previously Unreleased Solo Demo
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