Editing John Sebastian (section)

==Early life==
[[File:29 Washington Square West, New York, NY.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Sebastian grew up at 29 Washington Square West (''pictured 2025''), an apartment building in [[Greenwich Village]], New York, which overlooks [[Washington Square Park]].{{sfn|Barone|2022|p=86}}]]

Sebastian was born in [[New York City]] and grew up in [[Little Italy, Manhattan|Little Italy]] and [[Greenwich Village]].<ref name=clemente>{{cite web |last=Clemente |first=T.J. |url=https://www.hamptons.com/The-Arts/Live-Music-View/25656/INTERVIEW-John-Sebastian-A-Cog-In-The-Wheel-Of.html#.XVle_uhKhPY |title=John Sebastian: A Cog in the Wheel of the Greatest Musical Cultural Sea Change Known to Man |date=June 24, 2019 |publisher=Hamptons.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818143122/https://www.hamptons.com/The-Arts/Live-Music-View/25656/INTERVIEW-John-Sebastian-A-Cog-In-The-Wheel-Of.html |archive-date=August 18, 2019 |url-status=live |access-date=August 18, 2019}}</ref><ref name=hall>{{cite web |last=Hall |first=Johanna |url=http://www.johannahall.us/sebastian.pdf |title=The Spellbinding and Comfortable John B. Sebastian |publisher=johannahall.us|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820113942/http://www.johannahall.us/sebastian.pdf |archive-date=August 20, 2016 |url-status=live |access-date=August 18, 2019}}</ref> His father, [[John Sebastian (classical harmonica player)|John Sebastian]] ({{né}} John Sebastian Pugliese), was a noted [[harmonica|classical harmonica]] player, and his mother, Jane (born Mary Jane Bishir), was a radio script writer.<ref name=echoes>March, Jeff, and Marti Childs. [https://books.google.com/books?id=qwOyZukEwD4C&pg=PT375 ''Echoes of the Sixties: Intimate Profiles of 43 of the Musical Composers and Performers Who Influenced an Entire Generation.''] Billboard Books, 1999, p. 375–379; {{ISBN|0-8230-8316-0}}</ref> His godmother was [[Vivian Vance]] ("Ethel Mertz" of ''[[I Love Lucy]]''), who was a close friend of his mother.<ref>Office of the State Historian (New Mexico), [http://newmexicohistory.org/people/vivian-vance "Vivian Vance"], newmexicohistory.org. Retrieved June 3, 2015.</ref> His godfather and first babysitter was children's book illustrator [[Garth Williams]], a friend of his father.<ref name=boehme>Boehme, Mike, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-02-ca-18326-story.html "Payoff Time for John Sebastian: Pop Music: The Former Lovin' Spoonful Leader, at the Coach House Tonight, Hasn't Had a Record Since 1976, But Not For Want of Trying"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', latimes.com, April 2, 1993.</ref> [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] was a neighbor who lived across the hall.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Besonen|first=Julie|date=August 9, 2018|title=How 'Summer in the City' Became the Soundtrack for Every City Summer (Published 2018)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/nyregion/summer-in-the-city-lovin-spoonful-soundtrack-for-city-summer.html|access-date=November 29, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Sebastian grew up surrounded by music and musicians, including [[Burl Ives]] and [[Woody Guthrie]], and hearing such players as [[Lead Belly]] and [[Mississippi John Hurt]] in his own neighborhood.<ref name="SHOF">[http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/bio/C6011 Songwriter Hall of Fame John Sebastian biography.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311183101/http://songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/bio/C6011 |date=March 11, 2012 }}. Retrieved January 5, 2009.</ref><ref name="JBS">[http://www.johnbsebastian.com/bio.html John Sebastian biography at www.johnbsebastian.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210200516/http://www.johnbsebastian.com/bio.html |date=February 10, 2010 }}. Retrieved January 6, 2009.</ref> He graduated from [[Blair Academy]], a private boarding school in [[Blairstown, New Jersey]], in 1962.<ref>Blagden, Nellie, [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20069148,00.html "Talk About a Steady Job— Miss Ellen Has Toiled at Blair Academy For 69 Years,"] ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'', September 26, 1977, archived online at People.com. Retrieved June 3, 2015.</ref> He next attended [[New York University]] for just over a year, but dropped out as he became more interested in musical pursuits.<ref name=echoes /><ref>Tuma, Debbie, [http://www.die-augenweide.de/spoon/story/jbs_interv2.htm "John Sebastian: Finding His Roots" (interview with John Sebastian)], die-augenweide.de. Retrieved June 8, 2015.</ref>