Do You Believe In Magic, the best celebration of rock'n'roll ever sung, made the Top Ten ..., establishing the Lovin' Spoonful as the premier feel-good group of their generation. If the song, as John Sebastian has since revealed, owed much of its inspiration to Motown, the links to jug band and folk music were there to hear, particularly in Sebastian;s use of the autoharp. (Richie Unterburger, Jingle Jangle Morning: Folk Rock in the 1960s)
Significant. File under: Metropolitan folk-rockers
Discography: Studio albums; Live album
Compilations 1966-79 1981-95 1996-Present
In the music library: Everything Playing Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful