Everything Playing

Everything Playing is the fourth studio album and sixth overall by the Lovin' Spoonful (including two soundtrack albums), released in 1967.

Everything Playing
Studio album by
the Lovin' Spoonful
ReleasedDecember 1967[1]
GenrePop, folk rock
Length32:23
LabelKama Sutra
ProducerJoe Wissert
The Lovin' Spoonful
The Lovin' Spoonful chronology
You're a Big Boy Now
(1967)		 Everything Playing
(1967)		 Revelation: Revolution '69
(1968)
Singles from Everything Playing
  1. "Six O'Clock"
    Released: April 1967[2]
  2. "She Is Still a Mystery" / "Only Pretty, What a Pity"
    Released: October 1967[1]
  3. "Money" / "Close Your Eyes"
    Released: January 1968[2][3]

History

Everything Playing was the first album featuring guitarist Jerry Yester (replacing Zal Yanovsky who left shortly after recording "Six O'Clock") and the last commercial album as a quartet; principal songwriter and lead singer John Sebastian would leave the group in June 1968 for a solo career. This album also features the only known track to feature bassist Steve Boone on lead vocal: "Priscilla Millionaira".

Three of the songs made the Top 40: "Six O'Clock," "She Is Still a Mystery," and "Money". John Sebastian sang "Younger Generation" in his unscheduled appearance at Woodstock, dedicating it to an audience member whose wife or girlfriend had had a baby at the festival.[4]

The songs were recorded at Mirasound Studios in Manhattan using a prototype 16-track tape recorder which was custom built for the studio by Ampex.[5] This was one of the earliest recordings to use 16-track technology.

Everything Playing was re-issued on CD in 2003 with three bonus tracks — alternate versions of songs from the original recording.

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [6]
Rolling Stone(negative)[7]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[8]

In his Allmusic review, music critic William Ruhlman wrote of the album "When Sebastian wasn't at the mic, the singing could be mediocre, and the group was often all over the map in its attempt at musical sophistication, but the record was saved by Sebastian's writing and singing."[6]

Track listing

All songs by John Sebastian unless otherwise noted.

Side one

  1. "She Is Still a Mystery" – 3:00
  2. "Priscilla Millionaira" – 2:20
  3. "Boredom" – 2:23
  4. "Six O'Clock" – 2:38
  5. "Forever" (Steve Boone) – 4:24

Side two

  1. "Younger Generation" – 2:40
  2. "Money" – 2:01
  3. "Old Folks" (Joe Butler) – 3:04
  4. "Only Pretty, What a Pity" (Butler, Jerry Yester) – 3:04
  5. "Try a Little Bit" – 3:04
  6. "Close Your Eyes" (Sebastian, Yester) – 2:44

2003 Reissue Bonus Tracks

  1. "She Is Still a Mystery (Alternate Version)" – 3:11
  2. "Only Pretty, What a Pity (Alternate Version)" – 2:57
  3. "Try a Little Bit (Alternate Version)" – 3:02

Personnel

References
  1. Anon. (1990). Anthology (Liner notes). The Lovin' Spoonful. Rhino. R2 70944.
  2. Hill, Michael (2003). Everything Playing (Liner notes). The Lovin' Spoonful. Buddha, BMG Heritage. 74465 99733 2.
  3. Boone, Steve; Moss, Tony (2014). Hotter Than a Match Head: My Life on the Run with The Lovin' Spoonful. Toronto: ECW Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-77041-193-7 – via Google Books. Our first single of 1968, 'Money,' ...
  4. Fornatale, Pete. Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock. Touchstone, 2009, p. 51–52. ISBN 978-1-4165-9119-1.
  5. "Mirasound Studios, NY".
  6. Ruhlman, William. "Everything Playing > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  7. "Robert Greenburg. Rolling Stone. Vol. 1 No. 6. February 24, 1968. p20". Archived from the original on March 28, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
  8. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
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