The Lovin' Spoonful discography

The Lovin' Spoonful is an American folk rock band which was originally active between 1964 and 1968.[1] During their original tenure, they released five studio albums, two soundtrack albums, four compilation albums and fourteen singles in the United States. The Lovin' Spoonful oriented their focus towards the singles market,[2] and, beginning in July 1965, the group's first seven singles reached the Top Ten in the United States on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart.[3][4] The band experienced their biggest successes in 1966,[5][6] a year in which Billboard's end-of-year issue ranked the group as that year's third best performing singles artist, after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.[7][8][nb 1] The Lovin' Spoonful saw diminished success in 1967,[10] when only two of their singles entered the top twenty in the U.S.[4][11] Following further chart disappointments,[12] the group disbanded in 1968.[5]

The Lovin' Spoonful discography
The Lovin' Spoonful in 1965
Studio albums	5
Live albums	1
Compilation albums	21
EPs	8
Singles	17
Soundtrack albums	2

The Lovin' Spoonful's albums and singles were originally issued by Kama Sutra Records in the United States and by Pye International Records in the United Kingdom.[13][14] The band was not directly signed to Kama Sutra but was instead signed to Koppelman-Rubin, an entertainment company,[15] which negotiated a deal with the label in June 1965.[16] As part of the arrangement, MGM Records distributed the records, which Kama Sutra released on its label for Koppelman-Rubin.[15][nb 2] MGM's contract with Kama Sutra expired in 1967, and Kama Sutra's leadership founded Buddah Records, transferring their five-year deal with the Lovin' Spoonful in the process.[18][19] In 2023, John Sebastian, the Lovin' Spoonful's primary songwriter, sold his publishing and artist royalties rights to AMR Songs, an American catalog marketing company.[20]

Following the Lovin' Spoonful's dissolution, many of the band's original multi-track master tapes were lost.[21][22][nb 3] The band's earliest CD reissues were made from the best available stereo masters,[22] leaving the material sounding substandard when compared to reissues of other 1960s music.[25] In 2000, after the first-generation master-tapes were rediscovered, Buddha Records issued the first digital remaster of the band's material.[26][27] BMG Heritage Records, a reissue division of Sony BMG,[28] issued digital remasters of the band's first four albums on CD in 2002 and 2003,[29] along with previously unreleased bonus material.[30]