A report on Greenwich Village and The Lovin' Spoonful

The Lovin' Spoonful in 1965. Clockwise from below: John Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Joe Butler and Steve Boone

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets

Map of old Greenwich Village. A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made ca. 1766 for Henry Moore, royal governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than 2 miles (3 km) from the city.

Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village

Whitney Museum of American Art's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street; currently home to the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.

The Stonewall Inn, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement.

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of Greenwich Village and nearby New York University

396-397 West Street at West 10th Street is a former hotel which dates from 1904, and is part of the Weehawken Street Historic District

Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background

Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument

Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.

90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

The band had its roots in the folk music scene based in the Greenwich Village section of lower Manhattan during the early 1960s.

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This list includes Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Richie Havens, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Ian, the Kingston Trio, the Lovin' Spoonful, Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli, Joni Mitchell, Maria Muldaur, Laura Nyro, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Carly Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, Nina Simone, Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, and the Velvet Underground.

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Sebastian performing in concert in East Lansing, Michigan, August 1970

John Sebastian

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American singer-songwriter, guitarist and harmonicist.

Performing at the Woodstock Reunion 1979 at Parr Meadows in Ridge, New York

Sebastian (right) with David Grisman, 2009

Sebastian performing at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, November 27, 2011

He is best known as a founder of the Lovin' Spoonful, as well as for his impromptu appearance at the Woodstock festival in 1969 and a U.S. No. 1 hit in 1976, "Welcome Back".

Sebastian was born in New York City and grew up in Italy and Greenwich Village.

Singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie emerged from the dust bowl of Oklahoma and the Great Depression in the mid-20th century, with lyrics that embraced his views on ecology, poverty, and unionization, paired with melody reflecting the many genres of American folk music.

American folk music revival

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The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

Pete Seeger entertaining Eleanor Roosevelt, honored guest at a racially integrated Valentine's Day party marking the opening of a canteen for the United Federal Workers of America, a trade union representing federal employees, in then-segregated Washington, D.C. Photographed by Joseph Horne for the Office of War Information, 1944.

Josh White, Café Society (Downtown), New York, N.Y., c. June 1946

Harry Belafonte speaking at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C

Joan Baez playing at the March on Washington in August 1963

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan at the March on Washington, 1963

Judy Collins performing on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, 1967

Barred from mainstream outlets, artists like Seeger were restricted to performing in schools and summer camps, and the folk-music scene became a phenomenon associated with vaguely rebellious bohemianism in places like New York (especially Greenwich Village) and San Francisco's North Beach, and in the college and university districts of cities like Chicago, Boston, Denver, and elsewhere.

Meanwhile, bands like The Lovin' Spoonful and the Byrds, whose individual members often had a background in the folk-revival coffee-house scene, were getting recording contracts with folk-tinged music played with a rock-band line-up.