The Lovin’ Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic? & You Didn’t Have To Be So Nice - 1965

Excerpt from The Big . Show at the Moulin Rouge club in Los Angeles, California on November 29, 1965. The Lovin’ Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic, and You Didn’t Have To Be So Nice. The Lovin’ Spoonful - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Lovin’ Spoonful is an American rock band which was popular during the mid-to late-1960s. Founded in New York City in 1965 by lead-singer/songwriter John Sebastian and guitarist Zal Yanovsky, it is best known for a number of hits which include “Summer in the City“, “Do You Believe In Magic“, “Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?“, and “Daydream“. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Formation and early years (1964–1965) The band had its roots in the folk music scene based in the Greenwich Village section of lower Manhattan during the early 1960s. John B. Sebastian, the son of classical harmonicist John Sebastian, grew up in the Village in contact w