I downloaded some old Lovin Spoonful songs today. I will admit without shame that John Sebastian et. al. were among my favorite groups back in the Sixties. Anyway, I went to youtube to see if there were any Spoonful songs. I found this, which is far better, because, for all the bizarreness, it exemplifies what was so great about those times. Imagine a television show today in which you had the equivalents of Sammy Davis Jr, the Lovin Spoonful, the Supremes, and Sonny and Cher sharing the same stage at the same time, covering songs by the Beatles, the Beatles, the Four Tops, and the Stones, in that order, followed by the whole ensemble covering Herman’s Hermits.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDp38qNVuPQ[/youtube]
I will, by the way, freely admit that the world could have done without Sonny and Cher (or at least Sonny), and Herman’s Hermits to boot, but they were the price we paid for an embarassment of riches.
While I was previewing this I noticed that after the video is over, a little dock like menu appears toward the bottom, and you can view related videos. There’s a couple of the Spoonful singing their own songs, and one of Sammy Davis, Jr. and Nat King Cole singing a duet, with each imitating the other. Great stuff.
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