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Yanovsky met Canadian actress Jackie Burroughs in a laundromat in Toronto, where he was sleeping in a dryer while homeless. They were married in 1961 and had one daughter, Zoe, before separating in 1968. [ 7 ]
Jul 7, 2022 · At 17, his father sent Zal to live with a Zionist uncle and his family at the Degania Bet kibbutz in Israel, an arrangement that only lasted about 10 months.
Jul 11, 2023 · But that wasn’t all. In 1966, Yanovsky and bassist Steve Boone had been arrested in San Francisco for possession of cannabis. In an effort to avoid deportation back to Canada, Yanovsky went along with a police deal to provide the name of the person who’d sold him the weed.
Dec 18, 2002 · THE former Lovin’ Spoonful guitarist Zal Yanovsky, who abandoned the wild rock-star life for a quiet existence as a restaurant owner in Canada, has died at his home in Kingston, Ontario,...
Yanovsky grew up in Downsview, a suburb of Toronto, Canada, and he was enmeshed as a guitar player in the city's folk-music scene, which centered on the Yorkville neighborhood. [15] Denny Doherty, another musician active in Yorkville, [15] invited Yanovsky to join his folk group, the Halifax Three, which later relocated to Greenwich Village. [16]
Dec 13, 2002 · He lived on a kibbutz in Israel for a short time before returning to Canada. He teamed with fellow Canadian Denny Doherty in the Halifax Three. The two joined Cass Elliot in the Mugwumps, a group made famous by Doherty's & Cass's later group the Mamas & the Papas, in the song "Creeque Alley".
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Dec 13, 2012 · Yanovsky got his start playing in coffee houses in his native Toronto, eventually teaming with future Mama Cass Elliot and Papa Denny Doherty (a fellow Canadian) to form folk group the...