Zal Yanovsky
Zalman " Zal " Yanovsky ( born December 19, 1944 † 13 December 2002 Kingston) was a Canadian musician, producer and restaurateur who became famous in the years 1965-1967 through its participation in the American band The Lovin ' Spoonful been. Yanovsky died at age 58 in Kingston ( Ontario), to a heart attack.
Youth
Born in Toronto, Canada, the son of Jewish political cartoonist Avrom Yanovsky, he left college at the age of 16 years and played folk music in Canadian coffee houses. A short time later, he worked on a kibbutz in Israel, he had to leave after he drove a tractor into a building. Then the musical autodidact talking to street music in Tel Aviv on water. After he returned to Toronto, he met Denny Doherty know, the future singer of the Mamas and Papas. Doherty invited him to join his folk - blues group, The Halifax Three. With Doherty and Cass Elliot, another later Mamas and Papas member, he founded in 1964 The Mugwumps. The records recorded by this band were not published until after its members had become known in other bands.
The Lovin ' Spoonful
During his stay in the folk scene of Greenwich Village, New York, he became friends with John Sebastian, with whom he shared a penchant for various types of folk and blues. Inspired by the example of the Beatles, the two founded, together with Iceland coming from Long Steve Boone (bass) and Joe Butler ( drums), the band The Lovin ' Spoonful, in which they combined traditional music with rock and roll. They had the name of a song by Mississippi John Hurt.
In 1965 she signed a record deal with Kama Sutra Records and reached their first single Do You Believe In Magic? the top ten of the U.S. charts. With further successes as Daydream, Summer In The City and Darling Be Home Soon they were among the first bands that challenged the dominance of the Beatles and other British musicians in the United States. In a time when rock LPs usually consists of a single-hit and mostly consisted fillers, published the Lovin ' Spoonful albums with inspired, mostly self-composed songs. In 1966 she took the soundtrack to the film What's Up, Tiger Lily? Woody Allen and the 1967 on to You're A Big Boy Now by Francis Ford Coppola.
The good mood which the group had as a trademark, was disrupted when Boone and Zanovsky were arrested for possession of marijuana. In order to escape deportation from the U.S., Yanovsky betrayed his dealer, whereupon the Lovin ' Spoonful were ostracized by the musical counterculture. Mid-1967 he left the band and was replaced by Jerry Yester from the Modern Folk Quartet.
The Solo Artist
Upon his return to Canada, he recorded the album Alive and Well in Argentina ( and Loving Every Minute Of It ), which appeared on Buddah Records in 1968. Both the LP and a single, As Long As You're Here, played with the same piece back and without vocals as a B- side, reached minimal sales. In 1971, a re-release of the album on Kama Sutra Records.
From 1969 Zanovsky was active, along with Jerry Yester, as a producer, such as the albums Happy Sad by Tim Buckley (1969 ), Fifth Avenue band and Farewell Aldebaran by Jerry Yester and Judy Henske. He played with Kris Kristofferson and entered into the pseudo - Broadway show National Lampoon's Lemmings in New York's The Village Gate with the song Nirvana Banana, a parody of Donovan on.
In the early 1970s he returned to the music world back and initially produced TV series for Canadian television, including the nightly Court Magistrate 's Court Series 1975, he joined, along with Mick Jagger and Alice Cooper, in the TV documentary Rock-A- Bye to. 1980 Yanovsky played again with his Lovin ' Spoonful colleagues on several occasions, including in the film One Trick Pony by Paul Simon. He also appeared several times unannounced at performances by John Sebastian.
In March 1996 he was elected to the JUNO Hall of Fame (Canadian Music Hall of Fame ). In 2000, the original Lovin ' Spoonful met for the last time on the occasion of their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where they played some of their earlier hits live. Following Zanovsky Sebastian escorted on a tour of England.
The restaurateur
With his second wife, Rose Richardson, in 1979 he founded the Nobel Restaurant Chez Piggy, who became the meeting place for the night owls of Kingston, Ontario. His eponymous cookbook he presented in Canadian TV. In 1994 he opened the bakery Pan Chancho.
Death
On 13 December 2002 Zal Yanovsky died on his farm to a heart attack. After 2005, his wife Rose Richardson had died, took daughter Zoe Yanovsky, together with actress Jackie Burroughs, both operations. She also completed The Pan Chancho Cookbook, where her father had been working with. It was published in 2006 by Book Makers Press.
Before his death, Yanovsky was still involved in the re-release of the first two albums of the Lovin ' Spoonful on CD, which appeared in 2002 on BMG Records.
Obituary
John Sebastian about his friend: "I have seen in Zally all these strengths. He could play like Elmore James. He could play like Floyd Cramer. He could play like Chuck Berry. He could play as all these people, but he also had its own overwhelming personality. With all this, I thought, we were able to create something with real flexibility. "
Discography
The Mugwumps
The Lovin ' Spoonful
Zal Yanovsky solo