1 Do You Believe In Magic (1:25)
2 You Didn't Have To Be So Nice (3:19)
3 Daydream (5:41)
4 Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind (8:03)
5 Rain On The Roof (9:32)
6 Summer In The City (11:25)
7 Nashville Cats (13:28)
8 She Is Still A Mystery (15:57)
9 Darling Be Home Soon (18:14)
10 Welcome Back Kotter (21:51)
Jump to John Sebastian live in 2017 L.A. concert: https://youtu.be/x874Bj6xKDQ

AllMusic.com DVD Review: Do You Believe In Magic: The Music of John Sebastian and The Lovin' Spoonful. By the time of its release, the Lovin' Spoonful's debut album was already a significant record because of the inclusion of its title track, John Sebastian's timeless anthem to love and music, which had been one of the major hits of the summer of 1965. The album elaborated upon Sebastian's gentle, winning songwriting style with the humorous "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind," which was released as a single in the spring of 1966 and became another Spoonful hit, and the wistful "Younger Girl," which became a chart hit for the Critters. The album also revealed the group's jug band roots in its arrangements of traditional songs like "Fishin' Blues" and "Wild About My Lovin'" and revealed that lead guitarist Zal Yanovsky and drummer Joe Butler, while not quite in Sebastian's league, were good singers as well. The Spoonful would be remembered as a vehicle for Sebastian's songwriting, but Do You Believe in Magic was a well-rounded collection that demonstrated their effectiveness as a group.

St. Louis Magazine 2020 article: Inducted into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, John Sebastian has become a permanent part of our American musical fabric. 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 American music.