The Lovin' Spoonful discography

The Lovin' Spoonful is a Canadian-American folk-rock band which was originally active between 1964 and 1968. During their original tenure, they released five studio albums, two soundtrack albums, four compilation albums, and fourteen singles in the United States. Between October 1965 and January 1967, their first-seven singles reached the Top Ten in the United States on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart, and the magazine's 1966 end-of-year issue ranked the group as that year's third-best-performing singles artist, after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Though the Spoonful achieved success during the transition to the album era, they and their label remained focused on the singles market; the group's 1966 album Daydream was their only studio album to break the Top Ten of the Billboard Top LPs chart, and its performance was bested only by a 1967 compilation album, The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful, which RIAA certified for gold that year. The Spoonful saw diminished success in 1967, when only two of their singles entered the top twenty in the US. Following further chart disappointments, the group disbanded in 1968.

The Lovin' Spoonful's albums and singles were originally issued by Kama Sutra Records in the United States and by Pye International Records in the United Kingdom. The band was not directly signed to Kama Sutra but was instead signed to Koppelman-Rubin, an entertainment company, which negotiated a deal with the label in June 1965. As part of the arrangement, MGM Records distributed the records, which Kama Sutra released on its label for Koppelman-Rubin. MGM's contract with Kama Sutra expired in 1967, and Kama Sutra's leadership founded Buddah Records (later renamed Buddha), transferring their five-year deal with the Spoonful in the process. The band's new contract ran until 1975 and had their compensation at seven figures. In 2023, John Sebastian, the Spoonful's primary songwriter, sold the publishing and artist royalties rights for all of his compositions to AMR Songs, an American catalog marketing company.

The Lovin' Spoonful's music has been regularly collected on compilation albums. In the years after the band's breakup, many of their original multi-track master-tapes were lost and presumed destroyed. The group's earliest CD reissues were instead made from the best available stereo masters, leaving the material sounding substandard when compared to reissues of other 1960s music. In 2000, after the first-generation master-tapes were rediscovered, Buddha issued Greatest Hits, which was the first digital remaster of the band's material. BMG Heritage Records, a reissue division of Sony BMG, issued digital remasters of the band's first four studio albums on CD in 2002 and 2003, along with previously unreleased bonus material.