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Jul 11, 2023 · Between 1965 and ’66, the Lovin’ Spoonful landed no fewer than seven tracks in the Top 10. The first of these, Do You Believe in Magic, exemplifies what was always the most prominent influence within Yanovsky’s eclectic rootsy style – Chet Atkins-inspired country picking.
Jul 7, 2022 · Their self-described “good time music” — a sunny, electrified, groundbreaking mutation of jug band, folk, country, blues and rock ‘n’ roll idioms — inspired and influenced such contemporary...
- Early Life
- Early Career
- The Lovin’ Spoonful
- Breakup of The Band
- Career After The Lovin’ Spoonful
- Noted Restauranteur
- Honours
Zal Yanovsky was the child of Eastern European immigrants. His Ukrainian father, Avrom Yanovsky, was a political cartoonist for the Communist Party of Canada’s Canadian Tribune newspaper. Zal’s mother, Nechama Yanovsky (née Gemeril), was Polish and worked as a teacher. She was also regarded as one of Toronto’s foremost experts in Yiddish. (See Jewi...
After meeting Denny Doherty, Yanovsky was invited to join the folk trio he played in, The Halifax Three. They changed their name to The Halifax Three Plus One. The group released a pair of albums with Epic Records and toured as part of the “Original Hootenanny USA” with The Journeyman before breaking up in late 1963. Yanovsky then had a brief stint...
When The Mugwumps broke up in 1965, Elliot and Doherty formed The Mamas and the Papas. Yanovsky stayed in New York City and hooked up with a trio of Greenwich Village musicians: singer, songwriter and harmonica player John Sebastian; bassist Steve Boone and drummer Joe Butler. The folk-rock and bluesband the Lovin’ Spoonful (named after a line in t...
In 1966, Yanovsky and bassist Steve Boone were arrested in San Francisco for marijuana possession. As part of a deal to avoid prosecution and deportation, Yanovsky named his supplier. This resulted in a lot of negative press and a fierce backlash from the counterculture, who now saw Yanovsky as a snitch. At the same time, Yanovsky grew increasingly...
In 1968, Yanovsky released a solo record of psychedelic folk-rock, Alive and Well in Argentina, which went nowhere. In 1969, Yanovsky co-produced Tim Buckley’s Happy Sad. For a brief period in 1970, he joined Kris Kristofferson’s band as lead guitarist for a European tour that included a performance at the famed counterculture Isle of Wight Festiva...
Hounded by the counterculture and disenchanted with the music business, Yanovsky returned to Canada and eventually switched careers. In 1979, with his second wife, Rose Richardson, Yanovsky opened a restaurant in a restored 19th-century limestone livery stable in Kingston, Ontario, called Chez Piggy. In 1991, Yanovksy and Richardson published The C...
Inductee, Canadian Music Hall of Fame(1996)Inductee (The Lovin’ Spoonful), Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (2000)Inductee (The Lovin’ Spoonful), Vocal Group Hall of Fame (2006)Although not an original cast member, he contributed a musical number, "Nirvana Banana", a Donovan parody. In 1980 he appeared in the movie One-Trick Pony and reunited with the Lovin Spoonful. [6] In 1996 Yanovsky was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and performed.
Apr 13, 2013 · Zal Yanovsky’s unique country blues picking here, similar in tastefulness to the ‘Band’s’ Robbie Robertson is just exactly what the song asks for without going overboard. Sebastian’s smooth as glass vocals an obvious highlight, are ticklish and enticing.
Dec 12, 2020 · The Spoonfulʼs “good-time sound”—a mix of country, blues, rock and jug-band sounds—was a refreshing change from the protest music that had dominated the Greenwich Village scene. Yanovsky chuckled, “Both of my parents were Communists, so I had already stormed a lot of barricades.
The Sebastian-Yanovsky guitar interactions on “It’s Not Time Now,” “Darlin’ Companion,” and “Jug Band Music” are also easier to appreciate. Even on the acoustic “Henry Thomas” and “Bes’ Friends,” the audio gives the performances vibrancy and depth.
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