Editing The Lovin' Spoonful (section)

==== ''Daydream'' ====

In November{{nbsp}}1965, the Spoonful embarked on a 19-day package-tour with the American girl group [[the Supremes]].{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=96}}<ref name=Lewis>{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Dan |title=Lovin' Spoonful Make Hit With Peers in Pop Music |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122654443/lovin-spoonful-make-hit-with-peers-in-p/ |work=[[Fort Worth Star-Telegram]] |date=September 18, 1966 |page= 5-G |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> The acts performed at colleges across the southern U.S.,<ref name=Lewis /> beginning in [[Lafayette, Louisiana]], on November{{nbsp}}10.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Anon. |title='Lovin' Spoonful' To Appear Here |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122657365/lovin-spoonful-to-appear-here/ |work=[[The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, Louisiana)|The Daily Advertiser]] |date=November 5, 1965 |page=21 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |ref=none}}</ref>{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=98}} Both acts traveled by bus and partied together, along with members of the Supremes' backing band,{{sfn|Diken|2002}} [[the Funk Brothers]], billed as the [[Earl Van Dyke]] Orchestra.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|pp=96, 98}} The Spoonful generally enjoyed the tour but found it physically exhausting. Sebastian additionally missed his girlfriend, Loretta "Lorey" Kaye.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=101}} Near the tour's end, in an effort to raise his own spirits, he composed "[[Daydream (The Lovin' Spoonful song)|Daydream]]" while riding on the bus through North Carolina,{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=101}} drawing inspiration from the Supremes' 1964 singles "[[Baby Love]]" and "[[Where Did Our Love Go]]".{{sfn|Diken|2002}} A stop in [[Savannah, Georgia]] inspired the beginnings of "Jug Band Music",{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=101}} which Boone later said "recalled pleasant visions of the tour" for him and his bandmates.{{sfn|Diken|2002}}

[[File:The Lovin' Spoonful.png|thumb|left|The Lovin' Spoonful performing for ''[[The Big T.N.T. Show]]'', November{{nbsp}}1965]]

At the conclusion of their tour with the Supremes, the Spoonful departed directly for Los Angeles, having been invited by Phil Spector to appear in the concert film ''[[The Big T.N.T. Show]]''.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=102}} After filming on 29–30{{nbsp}}November,{{sfn|Hjort|2008|p=73}} the band remained in Los Angeles to do several weeks of a residency at the Trip, a short-lived nightclub on [[Sunset Boulevard]],{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=102}} where [[Brian Wilson]] of [[the Beach Boys]] saw them perform.{{sfn|Priore|2007|pp=45, 49}} During their stay, the Spoonful befriended a local fashion designer, [[Jeannie Franklyn]], who subsequently designed custom-clothing for Yanovsky.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|pp=103–104}} They also struck up a friendship with [[David Crosby]], the rhythm guitarist of the Byrds.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=103}} Crosby had spoken favorably of the Spoonful in interviews as early as August, often promising reporters that they would be the next big group.{{sfn|Hjort|2008|p=52}}{{sfn|Rogan|1997|pp=175–176}} Both he and his bandmate [[Roger McGuinn|Jim McGuinn]] had been familiar with Sebastian and Yanovsky since their earlier years playing folk with Cass Elliot, and the Spoonful, the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas remained on close terms in the mid-1960s.{{sfn|Rogan|1997|pp=175–176}}{{refn|group=nb|The Mamas & the Papas later chronicled the origins of the three groups in their single "[[Creeque Alley]]",{{sfn|Leonard|2014|p=136}} which reached number five in the U.S. in June{{nbsp}}1967.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Mamas & the Papas Chart History (Hot 100) |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-mamas-&-the-papas/chart-history/hsi/ |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=October 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231007234837/https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-mamas-&-the-papas/chart-history/hsi/ |archive-date=October 7, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>}}

Amid their busy TV and live-date schedule, the Spoonful recorded most of their second album ''[[Daydream (The Lovin' Spoonful album)|Daydream]]'' in four days, from December{{nbsp}}13 to 16, at [[Bell Sound Studios]] in New York City.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=104}} Some songs for the album were recorded in November, including "[[You Didn't Have to Be So Nice]]", and additional sessions took place at [[CBS Studio Building|Columbia Studios]] in New York City and RCA Studios in [[Hollywood, California]].{{sfn|Diken|2002}} Boone began "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" as a verse and a basic melodic figure, and Sebastian collaborated with him to complete the song.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|pp=89–90}} Kama Sutra  issued the song as a non-album single on November{{nbsp}}13,{{sfn|Jackson|2015|p=xx}} and it peaked at number ten on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in January{{nbsp}}1966.<ref name="Billboard chart history" />{{sfn|Diken|2002}} The sessions for ''Daydream'' came ten weeks after the band finished their first album, and the band had had little time to rehearse new material. Owing to the constraints, they recorded some Sebastian compositions which Jacobsen had rejected for inclusion on their debut album, including "Didn't Want to Have to Do It" and "Warm Baby".{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|pp=104–105}} While ''Do You Believe in Magic'' contained just five original compositions, eleven out of twelve tracks on ''Daydream'' were original. Kama Sutra released the album in March{{nbsp}}1966 and it reached number ten on the ''Billboard'' Top LPs chart, making it the band's best performing studio album.{{sfn|Diken|2002}}

[[File:Daydream Billboard advertisement.png|thumb|[[Kama Sutra Records]]' trade ad for the "[[Daydream (The Lovin' Spoonful song)|Daydream]]" single fueled press speculation that the band's name alluded to drug use.]]

Of the songs recorded for ''Daydream'', Sebastian and Yanovsky hoped that their joint composition "It's Not Time Now" would be issued as a single, but Kama Sutra denied the request out of fear that it was a [[protest song]].<ref name="NME May 20, 1966">{{cite magazine|last=King|first=John|title=Simplicity is Secret of Spoonful's Disc Success says Zal|date=May 20, 1966|magazine=[[New Musical Express]]|page=3}}</ref> The label instead issued "[[Daydream (The Lovin' Spoonful song)|Daydream]]" in February{{nbsp}}1966.{{sfn|Savage|2015|p=555}} The song's release fueled speculation from the press and public about a link between the band and drug use,{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|pp=111–112}}{{sfn|Unterberger|2002|p=263}} as the press had often incorrectly speculated that ''the Lovin' Spoonful'' alluded to the spoon used in injecting [[heroin]].{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=111}} The increased speculation was partly driven by the lyrics' use of the term "dream", which by 1966 was sometimes used to connote the experience of taking [[psychedelic drug]]s.{{sfn|Savage|2015|p=143}} Additionally, a trade ad in ''Billboard'' accompanying the single's release made several drug allusions, drawing the ire of the band, who had regularly sought to distance themselves from drug associations.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|pp=111–112}}

"Daydream" remained on the Hot 100 for twelve weeks, peaking at number two for two weeks in mid-April.<ref name="Billboard chart history" /> The single was kept from the top spot on ''Billboard''{{'s}} chart by [[the Righteous Brothers]]' song "[[(You're My) Soul and Inspiration]]",<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Billboard ''Hot 100''|date=April 9, 1966|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|page=24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IkUEAAAAMBAJ|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> but it reached number one on ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]'' magazine's chart and also reached the top spot in Canada.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=100 Top Pops (Week of April 9)|date=April 9, 1966|magazine=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]|page=4}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=2832&|title=RPM 100 (April 18, 1966)|date=July 17, 2013 |publisher=[[Library and Archives Canada]]|access-date=April 17, 2023}}</ref> The song's success expanded the Spoonful's popularity such that they were often able to headline their concerts rather than perform as a support act.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|p=110}} When the band toured the American South with the Beach Boys from April{{nbsp}}1 to 9, 1966,{{sfn|Badman|2004|pp=124–126}} the two groups alternated top billing.{{sfn|Boone|Moss|2014|pp=110–111}}{{refn|group=nb|[[Brian Wilson]] stopped regularly touring with the Beach Boys in December{{nbsp}}1964,{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=75}} but he saw the Spoonful perform at The Trip.{{sfn|Priore|2007|pp=45, 49}} Wilson later said that "a John Sebastian song I had been listening to" inspired his song "[[God Only Knows]]",{{sfn|Wilson|Gold|1991|p=138}} which the biographer Mark Dillon connects to "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice".{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=112}}}}