The Lovin' Spoonful

I did not know this.

Rafelson and Schneider's original idea for the show was to cast an existing New York folk rock group, the Lovin' Spoonful.

Oh, I

know the Lovin' Spoonful.

Do you believe in magic? Yep.

Well, they were not very well known at the time.

One more track to play here for part one, and these are the songs you guys were voting on.

We had the Lovin' Spoonful with Do You Believe in Magic.

We had Aretha Franklin with Think.

[laughs] We had Joe Jackson with Is She Really Going Out with Him? But the winner this week, it's a band that's never been played on the show, and I love doing that.

And his band

was a Loving Spoonful.

Loving Spoonful, that's

what I meant.

When I said, I

meant Loving Spoonful.

Okay.

Yeah, so you're

The Kinks have Rosie, Won't You Please Come Home about the sister that is or the daughter that has gone off to be with her smart friends and just come home and be one of us again, that it's this real sweet song.

And then I think one of the best love songs of the 60s, Darling, Be Home Soon by the Lovin' Spoonful.

And it's just so sweet about a guy waiting for his girlfriend to come home and how much he loves her.

I've got one.

Throughout the movie, the audience is treated to several prominent needle drops.

We hear the Allman Brothers instrumental track Jessica, the Lovin' Spoonful's Daydream, and the Doobie Brothers' China Grove.

Those aren't just background tracks to fill the silence during driving scenes either.

They serve a vital narrative function.

But I feel sorry.

You know, do you remember the old Loving Spoonful song? Do you believe in magic? I mean, magic makes the world a more beautiful place.

It's not a negative.

I mean, negative people do negative things whether they are doing that with us you know angry people angry people do bad things and they can do that with a magic spell and they can do that working in a pharmacy and they can do that you know working in a supermarket and just making people feel miserable but but that's not that's not the magic that's the person We don't appreciate how much power we have.

I finally hooked Yank up with John, who was a massive Yank Rachell fan.

They all came out, Jimmy Vivino, the guitarist from Conan O'Brien, and, 'cause he was in a, a band with John Sebastian of the Loving Spoonful, in case you guys don't know who John is.

What a Day For a Daydream, and Do You Believe in Magic, and Summer in the City.

I mean, he wrote these songs.

yeah that's a great ride it went for like an hour and then finally got love and spoonful like all right now we'll let white people play music like like it was so good though and love and spoonful is great yeah tim cook could let couldn't let a good thing go i

mean

No shit on Love and Spoonful.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

No, it's Steve Wynwood, and I'm going to go kick the door, and I'm going back to the mentors.

Yeah.

And then it went from Love and Spoonful back to Science Deal Deliver, so I can't go along with that.