“We were turned down by every record company in New York City,” lead singer and songwriter John Sebastian told Mix in 2008.
Some audience members did appreciate what the Lovin' Spoonful was doing onstage, however — and one of them inspired the song that would end up being the band's debut single, "Do You Believe in Magic."
“People in these clubs didn’t routinely dance anyway like they did uptown at the Peppermint Lounge," he continued. "But this one night, while we were playing our set, a girl started dancing by herself. It wasn’t the Lindy, but some new, personally expressive set of movements, the kind of dancing you were going to see at Woodstock in a few years. We looked at each other, and without saying a word shared a common thought: Our moment had arrived! Sure enough, the following week the audience had changed. Those 50-year-old beatniks had drifted off, replaced by a horde of 16-year-old girls. I took that memory, and in the next couple of days started to work on an idea that would become ‘Do You Believe in Magic.’”
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“Once we finished the four-song demo, we shopped it around, but nobody wanted it!" Sebastian said, adding, "I owned the acetate for about 10 months before Kama Sutra became interested. We kept being told that no one had heard a sound like this and that it was terrible!”
“Within two weeks, we went from playing high schools to being headliners at the Crescendo, the wildest club in L.A.," Sebastian said.
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