The twangy grandeur of Zal Yanovsky’s big guitar riff on the Lovin’ Spoonful’s You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice made it a Top 10 hit in the winter of 1965-’66. The track also caught the ear of Brian ...

TORONTO - Former Lovin' Spoonful guitarist Zal Yanovsky, who traded in the wild rock star life for a quiet existence as a restaurant owner in Canada, has died, the Toronto Star reported Sunday. The ...

Joe Butler admits today’s version of the Lovin’ Spoonful doesn’t rely on past glories from what he called its 15 minutes of fame in the 1960s. “But we deliver the goods. I’m pretty clumsy at drawing a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- By the time founder John Sebastian played Woodstock, he had left rock band The Lovin’ Spoonful. But bandmate and current lead singer Joe Butler was not far away. "I was at ...

Do you believe in the Lovin' Spoonful? Because the Spoonful certainly believes in you. In recent years, the decades-old purveyors of feel-good rock ‘n' roll have visited the Ocala area at least three ...