John Sebastian reviewing jukebox tracks. The Lovin' Spoonful were folkies who went rock. John Sebastian, son of a classical harmonica virtuoso, met Zal Yanofsky, a Toronto folk singer, at the apartment of Cass Elliot, later of the Mamas and Papas, and she encouraged them to listen to the Beatles. Before long, they'd hooked up with Joe Butler and Steve Boone and were playing Greenwich Village coffeehouses to adoring teen audiences. Much of their repertoire was folk standards electrified and sung with a touching innocence, but Sebastian was also a fine songwriter, as Spoonful hits like "Do You Believe in Magic?", "Daydream," and "Younger Girl" prove. Young John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful, whose "Daydream" is in the jukebox. They were almost the American Beatles, but an incident where it looked like two of the band had informed on their marijuana source to avoid trouble angered fans, and the band fell apart. Yanovsky returned to Canada, where he ran a fine restaurant until his death in 2002, and Sebastian has been a very successful songwriter.