The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion

The Rascals - Time Peace: The Rascals Greatest Hits

The Rascals - Time Peace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits - album cover
 
The Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful (1966)

The Lovin' Spoonful - Hums of The Lovin' Spoonful - album cover



Personally I would have chosen a career overview/greatest hits - I'm not sure I see any superiority of this as a choice c/w albums like "Daydream" or "Do You Believe in Magic". More energy in their pop folk perhaps (and sometimes downright kookiness like "Henry Thomas"). This does have "Rain on the Roof" and "Summer in the City".
 
The Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful (1966)

The Lovin' Spoonful - Hums of The Lovin' Spoonful - album cover' Spoonful - Hums of The Lovin' Spoonful - album cover



Personally I would have chosen a career overview/greatest hits - I'm not sure I see any superiority of this as a choice c/w albums like "Daydream" or "Do You Believe in Magic". More energy in their pop folk perhaps (and sometimes downright kookiness like "Henry Thomas"). This does have "Rain on the Roof" and "Summer in the City".
Comps don't capture the eclectic nature of the Spoonful because their singles, great as they were, were mainstream for the time. Hums was their high point, after which there was really nowhere to go but down.
 
Wait a guldurn minnit. Are you sure you had not heard "Pretty Ballerina"?

I make up some seriously suspect lyrics to that one.
I knew Manfred Mann’s “Pretty Flamingo” (and Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman” of course) but not sure about the Left Banke’s “Pretty Ballerina”
Listening to all these great songs though, I feel pretty. ;)
 
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