The Lovin' Spoonful discography

Studio albums5

EPs8

Live albums1

Compilation albums20

The Lovin' Spoonful discography
The Lovin' Spoonful in 1965
Studio albums	5
EPs	8
Live albums	1
Compilation albums	20
Singles	19
Soundtrack albums	2

The Lovin' Spoonful is a Canadian-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. Between October 1965 and January 1967, their first-seven singles reached the Top Ten in the United States on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart,^[2][3] and the magazine's 1966 end-of-year issue ranked the group as that year's third-best-performing singles artist, after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.^{[4][5][nb 1]} Though the Spoonful achieved success during the transition to the album era, they and their label remained focused on the singles market;^[7] the group's 1966 album Daydream was their only studio album to break the Top Ten of the Billboard Top LPs chart,^[8] and its performance was bested only by a 1967 compilation album, The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful,^[8] which RIAA certified for gold that year.^[9] The Spoonful saw diminished success in 1967,^[10] when only two of their singles entered the top twenty in the US.^[3][11] Following further chart disappointments,^[12] the group disbanded in 1968.^{[13][nb 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.^[18][19] The band was not directly signed to Kama Sutra but was instead signed to Koppelman-Rubin, an entertainment company,^[20] which negotiated a deal with the label in June 1965.^[14] As part of the arrangement, MGM Records distributed the records, which Kama Sutra released on its label for Koppelman-Rubin.^{[20][nb 3]} MGM's contract with Kama Sutra expired in 1967, and Kama Sutra's leadership founded Buddah Records (later renamed Buddha), transferring their five-year deal with the Spoonful in the process.^[22][23] The band's new contract ran until 1975 and had their compensation at seven figures.^{[24][nb 4]} In 2023, John Sebastian, the Spoonful's primary songwriter, sold the publishing and artist royalties rights for all of his compositions to AMR Songs, an American catalog marketing company.^[28]

The Lovin' Spoonful's music has been regularly collected on compilation albums.^[29] In the years after the band's breakup, many of their original multi-track master-tapes were lost and presumed destroyed.^{[30][31][nb 5]} The group's earliest CD reissues were instead made from the best available stereo masters,^[31] leaving the material sounding substandard when compared to reissues of other 1960s music.^[33] In 2000, after the first-generation master-tapes were rediscovered, Buddha issued Greatest Hits, which was the first digital remaster of the band's material.^[29][34] BMG Heritage Records, a reissue division of Sony BMG,^[35] issued digital remasters of the band's first four studio albums on CD in 2002 and 2003,^[36] along with previously unreleased bonus material.^[37]