What’s Up, Tiger Lily?/Hums of the Lovin’ Spoonful

RELEASE
February 07, 2011
LABEL
Edsel
GENRES
Pop/Rock, Psychedelic, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Folk-Rock, AM Pop

Album Review

A truly unique and wonderfully American band, the Lovin' Spoonful released nearly all of their creative legacy between 1965 and the end of 1966. The first album, Do You Believe in Magic, hit in 1965, with the second, Daydream, and the third, Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, arriving in 1966. Also in 1966, the group delivered the soundtrack to Woody Allen's first film, What's Up, Tiger Lily? This set combines that soundtrack with Hums on a single disc, and truthfully, it works mostly because Hums, which contained such classic Spoonful numbers as "Lovin' You," "Rain on the Roof," "Coconut Grove," "Nashville Cats," and "Summer in the City," is such a fine album. Aside from the minor song "Pow" and a redo of "Fishin' Blues," the music on What's Up, Tiger Lily? is of the instrumental soundtrack variety. Things went downhill after 1966 for the Lovin' Spoonful. The two albums the band released in 1967, You're a Big Boy Now (the soundtrack to a film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola) and Everything Playing, show a band that was creatively exhausted. You're a Big Boy Now did generate a couple of good songs, the title tune and the lovely "Darling Be Home Soon," while Everything Playing yielded the joyous "She Is Still a Mystery" and "Six O'Clock," but these were really the last great gasp of a truly great American band.
Steve Leggett, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Introduction to Flick
  2. Pow (Theme from What's Up, Tiger Lily?)
  3. Gray Prison Blues
  4. Pow Revisited
  5. Unconscious Minuet
  6. Fishin' Blues
  7. Respoken
  8. A Cool Million
  9. Speakin' of Spoken
  10. Lookin' to Spy
  11. Phil's Love Theme
  12. End Title
  13. Lovin' You
  14. Bes' Friends
  15. Voodoo in My Basement
  16. Darlin' Companion
  17. Henry Thomas
  18. Full Measure
  19. Rain on the Roof
  20. Coconut Grove
  21. Nashville Cats
  22. 4 Eyes
  23. Summer in the City
  24. Darlin' Companion [John Sebastian Solo Demo] [*][Demo Version]
  25. Rain on the Roof [Instrumental Version] [*][Instrumental][Version]
  26. 4 Eyes [Alternate Vocal Extended Version] [Alternate Take][*][Version]
  27. Full Measure [Instrumental Version] [*][Instrumental][Version]
  28. Voodoo in My Basement [Instrumental Version] [*][Instrumental][Version]
  29. Darlin' Companion [Alternate Vocal, Alternate Mix] [Alternate Take][*]