Editing The Lovin' Spoonful (section)

==== Yester hired, ''Everything Playing'' ====

[[File:The Lovin Spoonful 1968.png|thumb|alt=Refer to caption|The Lovin' Spoonful with Yanovsky's replacement, [[Jerry Yester]] (left), {{circa|1967–68}}]]

The Spoonful hired Jerry Yester to replace Yanovsky on lead guitar duties. Following the May{{nbsp}}1967 meeting in which Yanovsky was fired, Sebastian suggested hiring Yester, and no other replacement was considered. Yester had been close to the band and Jacobsen for years, having contributed to the recording of "Do You Believe in Magic".{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=178}} Since mid-1966, when Yester's band the Modern Folk Quartet disbanded,<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Fisk|first=Thermon|title=Gene Clark: 'You Have to Hear It and See Yourself'|magazine=[[KRLA Beat]]|date=July 9, 1966|page=3|quote=[I]n the pop world recently{{nbsp}}... [s]everal groups have been affected by break-ups{{nbsp}}... among these{{nbsp}}... [are] the MFQ – who are now completely defunct as a group{{nbsp}}...}}</ref> he had been working as a session musician and producer in Los Angeles.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|pp=178–179}}{{refn|group=nb|Yester contributed to the Monkees' 1967 album ''[[Headquarters (The Monkees album)|Headquarters]]'', and he produced [[the Association]]'s 1966 album ''[[Renaissance (The Association album)|Renaissance]]'' and [[Tim Buckley]]'s 1967 album ''[[Goodbye and Hello (Tim Buckley album)|Goodbye and Hello]]''.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|pp=178–179}}}} In early June{{nbsp}}1967, he rehearsed with the Spoonful at Sebastian's home in [[East Quogue, New York]], and he debuted with the band on June{{nbsp}}30 at the [[Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Portland, Oregon)|Memorial Coliseum]] in [[Portland, Oregon]].{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|pp=178–179}}

The Spoonful reconvened in August{{nbsp}}1967 to begin sessions for their next album, ''[[Everything Playing]]''.  In need of a producer after Jacobsen's firing, the band initially hoped to work with [[Roy Halee]], who had worked as [[Audio engineer|engineer]] on the band's earlier recordings, but his continued employment with [[Columbia Records]] prevented the collaboration. Koppelman-Rubin instead suggested [[Joe Wissert]], a Philadelphia-based producer who had recently worked with [[the Turtles]] on their 1967 singles, "[[Happy Together (song)|Happy Together]]" and "[[She'd Rather Be with Me]]". On Wissert's recommendation, the band moved from Columbia's recording studios to Mira Sound Studios, a new facility in New York City which made use of an AMPEX MM-1000, the industry's first [[Multitrack recording|16-track recorder]].{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|pp=180–181}} The band struggled to manage the more complicated recording equipment, a situation worsened when Wissert stopped attending sessions, forcing Yester to produce in his place.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|pp=186–187}}

Like other folk-rock acts, the Spoonful struggled to modify their musical approach as the new genre of [[psychedelic music|psychedelia]] expanded in popularity in 1967.{{sfn|Unterberger|2003|p=61}} The sessions for ''Everything Today'' yielded three singles, all three of which continued the band's downward commercial performance when they failed to place in the Top Ten.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|pp=182, 189}} "Six O'Clock", which had been recorded at Columbia before Jacobsen and Yanovsky were fired, was released in April{{nbsp}}1967 and peaked at number 18.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=182}} For the album's next single, "She Is Still a Mystery", Yester arranged an orchestral accompaniment which included [[String section|strings]] and [[Woodwind section|woodwinds]] played by members of the [[New York Philharmonic]], along with [[Horn section|horns]] from [[Ray Charles]]' touring band.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=182}} Released in October,{{sfn|Anon.|1990}} the single reached number 27.<ref name="Billboard chart history" />{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=182}} ''Everything Playing'' was issued in December{{nbsp}}1967,{{sfn|Anon.|1990}} but received negative reviews from critics and peaked at number 118 in the U.S. after spending seven weeks on the album chart.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=187}} The album track "Younger Generation" was originally intended for release as a single – a trade ad in ''Billboard'' promised it would be "the most talked-about track of 1968" – but its release never followed.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=183}} Instead, "Money" was issued as a single in January{{nbsp}}1968,{{sfn|Hill|2003}} and it peaked at number 48.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=189}}