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4G Corpui Christi Cailer-Times Sun., May 29, 1966 G#i mg Sounds Hits list Is published through the courtesy of Station KEYS 14# Survey. 1. md You Ever 2. Iconic, Louie J. I Love You Drops 4. Ifs a Man’s World I, Monday, Monday I. Heart’s Desire 7. I Ani a Roc4 8. Paint It Blart I. Leaning on the Lamp Post 19. Eight Mites High IL When a Man Loves a Woman ll. Green Grass IS. Sweet Dreams 14. Double Shot 15. Rhapsody t i the Rata l l Red Robber Ball 17. Kirks l l Sloop John B ll. Ballad of Batmen ll. The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine 21. How's That Grab Yan 22. Rntey Day W omen 12 I SS 21 Wiggle aid GlggHa’ 24. Without Yan 21 Shapes af Tkbg* 21 Distant Drams 27. Pin the TIU on the Donkey 28. Opus I? 28. HeO's Angels SI. Everyday I Have Ta Cry FIVE COMERS 1. Love’s aa Itching In my Heart 2. LH Red Riding Hood S. Don’t Give Up Hope 4. Paperback Writer I Maid of Sagar-Maid of Spice Loris* Spoonful Kinsmen Don Cherry James Brown Mamas & Papas Billy Joe Royal Simon & Garfunkel Moiling Stones Herman’s Hermits Bvida Percy Sledge Gary Lewis Tommy McLain Swtngin* Medallions Leu Christie Cvrkte Paul Revere Beach Boys Camps Walker Bm. Nancy Sinatra Bob Dylan Roy Head Gem k Pacemakers Yardbirds Jim Reeves Paai Peek Four Seasons Bob Moore Gentry* Mjprwnes Sam the Sham Four More Beatles Mouse k The Traps TOP 20 NATIONALLY AP Newsfeatares The top 28 records of the week according to a na tional survey. 1 W hen a Man Loves A Woman 2 Paint It Blart S Monday-Monday 4 A Groovy Kind of Love 5 I Am A Bort I It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World 7 Message to Michael 8 Love is Like An Itching In My Heart i Rainy Day Woman No. 12 k 35 18 Good Lovin’ Young Rascals 11 Did You Eva- Have To Make Up Your Mind Levin’ Spoonful 12 Eight Miles High Byrds 15 How Does That Grab You, Darlin’ Nancy Sinatra Percy Sledge Rolling Stones Mamas & Papas Mind Benders Simon k Garfunkel James Brown Dionne Warwick Supreme* Bob Dylan 14 The ‘A’ Team 15 Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine 18 Kicks 17 Barefootin’ 18 Shapes of Things lf Green Grass 28 Sloop John B. S-Sgt. Barry Sadler Walker Bros. Paul Revere and Raiders Robert Parker Yardbirds Gary Lewis Beach Boys THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL . . . their ’Did You Ever* leads the local list The Lovin’ Spoonful THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL, whom “Did You Ever” was on top of the list in Colpus Christi last wert, got togeth er largely by accident. “Zal and I just wandered around the West Village, tell ing each other that when we needed a bass player and a drummer, one would ap pear,” said John Sebastian. Sebastian, 21, plays guitar, harmonica and autoharp. Bora and raised in Greenwich Village, John started playing harmonica as a child and guitar at 12. He lived in Italy for five years. After a year as a guitar- maker's apprentice, he worked on his own as a studio har monica player, working with jug bands and some of the young dty-country blues musi cians. Driven to despair by com mercial folk music, John re tired to Marblehead, Mass., where he Intended to make sails. But the man who said he wanted a sailmaker really wanted someone to paint bot toms of boats with rust paint. John was allergic to rust paint so be went back to New York and combined forces with Zal Yanovsky. *1 don’t know how it hap pened, but all of a suddea there I was, playing with John,” said Zal. Yanovsky, 28, lead guitar ist from Toronto, Canada, started playing folk music it 15. He quit high school at 18 and became a folk singer. He went to Israel for IO months, returned, lived on streets— , . then I lived in a laundromat for 7 months . . ” He got a job as accom panist for the Halifax Three for 18 months, Crashed in flames in California, returned via two-passenger M.G. with two other people and lug gage, and met a snow storm In Albuquerque and John Se bastian In New York, vec tored b art to Toronto, but it wasn’t the same. So Zal went to Washington, D.C., w h e r e he met an electric guitar. He wound up with a twelve-string guitar and bins full of assorted elec trical musical equipment, Zal became a convert to reddy kil owatt. “Ifs loud, and people dance to it, and it’s loud.” Later he met John again. “I was going to quit rock and roll, go to Europe, go to school, but I was awed by the musicians there,” said Steve Boone. Boone was bom in Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital in North Carolina. He is 21, 8 feet 8 Inches tall, and related to Daniel Boone’s brother. He also maintains his family once owned the Times-Tower Building In Manhattan and one-fifth of Delaware. Steve started playing rhythm gui tar at 17 after an accident which had him in traction for two months. He got many thousands of dollars for the* ac cident. For several years, he played in a swing band, played rock and roll and spent money. Went to Eu rope, came back, met John and Zal. Steve plays electric bass. “They really didn’t have much choice. At th* time I was the only person I know who lived in the Village who didnt play guitar,” said Joe Butler, the drummer. Butler, 21, was bom In Glen Cove, Long Island. He start ed playing drums early, ac companying an accordion player when he was IS. After high school, Joe went to col lege, and played and sang In a twist band in several of the gay clubs in Long Island. He met Steve Boone while playing on the island He moved to New York where he was working with a band in the village when he and Steve met John and Zal. The emergence of the “Lov in’ Spoonful” Immediately they dived into the famous Greenwich Village folk music. Their first job was at the Night Owl Cate. Owner Joe Mara’s reaction was, “I heard It all, and these guys don’t make it.” They retreated to the base ment of the Albert Hotel Each day they would take the freight elevator down, the electric stuff filling a laundry cart. They had to cross an enormous black pool to the basement, which w u full of water bugs, centipede*, and sightless fish. Ancient flakes would be vi brated loose from everything and a soft rain of plaster cov ered The Levin' Spoonful like dandruff. They started wearing different funny hats to keep their hair dean. The lower echelons of the hotel staff cheered them on, neglect ing ail work for a period of days, then the boss cracked. After two months they emerged, pale, blinking, and marched on the Night Owl. Their new professionalism to impressed the owner that he cheerfully rehired them for an indefinite* period of time and at his own expense had print ed up 1,000 balloons saying “I Live You—The Lovin’ Spoon ful” Famous names In the entertainment field dropped by to see them. Record com panies made offers and they’re still coming. oooooooooo oooooooooo Let's Play GOOFY GOLF! ° 18 HOU PUTT-FUTT-OKN WIEK BIDS OMEY 5835 leopard Across Frow Soso! 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4G Corpui Christi Cailer-Times Sun., May 29, 1966
G#imgSounds
Hits list Is published through the courtesy of Station KEYS 14# Survey.1. md You Ever2. Iconic, Louie J. I Love You Drops 4. Ifs a Man’s World I, Monday, Monday I. Heart’s Desire7. I Ani a Roc48. Paint It Blart I. Leaning on the Lamp Post
19. Eight Mites High IL When a Man Loves a Woman ll. Green Grass IS. Sweet Dreams14. Double Shot15. Rhapsody t i the Rata l l Red Robber Ball 17. Kirks l l Sloop John B ll. Ballad of Batmen ll. The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine21. How's That Grab Yan22. Rntey Day W omen 12 I SS 21 Wiggle aid GlggHa’24. Without Yan 21 Shapes af Tkbg*21 Distant Drams27. Pin the TIU on the Donkey28. Opus I?28. HeO's AngelsSI. Everyday I Have Ta Cry
FIVE COMERS1. Love’s aa Itching In my Heart2. LH Red Riding Hood S. Don’t Give Up Hope 4. Paperback WriterI Maid of Sagar-Maid of Spice
Loris* Spoonful Kinsmen
Don Cherry James Brown
Mamas & Papas Billy Joe Royal
Simon & Garfunkel Moiling Stones
Herman’s Hermits Bvida
Percy Sledge Gary Lewis
Tommy McLain Swtngin* Medallions
Leu Christie Cvrkte
Paul Revere Beach Boys
Camps Walker Bm .
Nancy Sinatra Bob Dylan Roy Head
Gem k Pacemakers Yardbirds
Jim Reeves Pa ai Peek
Four Seasons Bob Moore
Gentry*
Mjprwnes Sam the Sham
Four More Beatles
Mouse k The Traps
TOP 20 NATIONALLY
AP NewsfeataresThe top 28 records of the week according to a na
tional survey.1 W hen a Man Loves A Woman2 Paint It Blart S Monday-Monday4 A Groovy Kind of Love5 I Am A BortI It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World7 Message to Michael8 Love is Like An Itching In My Heart i Rainy Day Woman No. 12 k 35
18 Good Lovin’ Young Rascals11 Did You Eva- Have To Make Up Your
Mind Levin’ Spoonful12 Eight Miles High Byrds 15 How Does That Grab You, Darlin’ Nancy Sinatra
Percy Sledge Rolling Stones
Mamas & Papas Mind Benders
Simon k Garfunkel James Brown
Dionne Warwick Supreme*
Bob Dylan
14 The ‘A’ Team15 Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine 18 Kicks17 Barefootin’18 Shapes of Things lf Green Grass28 Sloop John B.
S-Sgt. Barry Sadler Walker Bros.
Paul Revere and Raiders Robert Parker
Yardbirds Gary Lewis Beach Boys
THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL . . . their ’Did You Ever* leads the local list
The Lovin’ SpoonfulTHE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL,
whom “Did You Ever” was on top of the list in Colpus Christi last wert, got together largely by accident.
“Zal and I just wandered around the West Village, telling each other that when we needed a bass player and a drummer, one would appear,” said John Sebastian.
Sebastian, 21, plays guitar, harmonica and autoharp. Bora and raised in Greenwich Village, John started playing harmonica as a child and guitar at 12. He lived in Italy for five years.
After a year as a guitar- maker's apprentice, he worked on his own as a studio harmonica player, working with jug bands and some of the young dty-country blues musicians.
Driven to despair by commercial folk music, John retired to Marblehead, Mass., where he Intended to make sails. But the man who said he wanted a sailmaker really wanted someone to paint bottoms of boats with rust paint. John was allergic to rust paint so be went back to New York and combined forces with Zal Yanovsky.
*1 don’t know how it happened, but all of a suddea there I was, playing with John,” said Zal.
Yanovsky, 28, lead guitarist from Toronto, Canada, started playing folk music i t
15. He quit high school at 18 and became a folk singer. He went to Israel for IO months, returned, lived on streets— , . then I lived in a laundromat for 7 months . . ”
He got a job as accompanist for the Halifax Three for 18 months, Crashed in flames in California, returned via two-passenger M.G. with two other people and luggage, and met a snow storm In Albuquerque and John Sebastian In New York, vectored bart to Toronto, but it wasn’t the same.
So Zal went to Washington, D.C., w h e r e he met an electric guitar. He wound up with a twelve-string guitar and bins full of assorted electrical musical equipment, Zal became a convert to reddy kilowatt. “Ifs loud, and people dance to it, and it’s loud.” Later he met John again.
“I was going to quit rock and roll, go to Europe, go to school, but I was awed by the musicians there,” said Steve Boone.
Boone was bom in Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital in North Carolina. He is 21, 8 feet 8 Inches tall, and related to Daniel Boone’s brother. He also maintains his family once owned the Times-Tower Building In Manhattan and one-fifth of Delaware. Steve started playing rhythm guitar at 17 after an accident which had him in traction for two months. He got many
thousands of dollars for the* accident. For several years, he played in a swing band, played rock and roll and spent money. Went to Europe, came back, met John and Zal. Steve plays electric bass.
“They really didn’t have much choice. At th* time I was the only person I know who lived in the Village who didnt play guitar,” said Joe Butler, the drummer.
Butler, 21, was bom In Glen Cove, Long Island. He started playing drums early, accompanying an accordion player when he was IS. After high school, Joe went to college, and played and sang In a twist band in several of the gay clubs in Long Island. He met Steve Boone while playing on the island He moved to New York where he was working with a band in the village when he and Steve met John and Zal.
The emergence of the “Lovin’ Spoonful”
Immediately they dived into the famous Greenwich Village folk music. Their first job was at the Night Owl Cate. Owner Joe Mara’s reaction was, “I
heard It all, and these guys don’t make it.”
They retreated to the basement of the Albert Hotel Each day they would take the freight elevator down, the electric stuff filling a laundry cart. They had to cross an enormous black pool to the basement, which w u full of water bugs, centipede*, and sightless fish.
Ancient flakes would be vibrated loose from everything and a soft rain of plaster covered The Levin' Spoonful like dandruff. They started wearing different funny hats to keep their hair dean. The lower echelons of the hotel staff cheered them on, neglecting ail work for a period of days, then the boss cracked.
After two months they emerged, pale, blinking, and marched on the Night Owl. Their new professionalism to impressed the owner that he cheerfully rehired them for an indefinite* period of time and at his own expense had printed up 1,000 balloons saying “I Live You—The Lovin’ Spoonful” Famous names In the entertainment field dropped by to see them. Record companies made offers and they’re still coming.
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18 HOU PUTT-FUTT-OKN WIEK BIDS OMEY 5835 leopard Across Frow Soso! Cantar
TU4-0224Ploy Goofy toH Hey Goofy Golf
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