July 20, 1965 –
The Lovin’ Spoonful released their hit Do You Believe In Magic? on this date.
The Lovin’ Spoonful played regularly at a famous club called The Night Owl Cafe. John Sebastian was quoted as saying: “We were playing pretty steadily for the local people from Greenwich Village who were part of the jazz scene or part of the kind of downtown ‘in crowd.’ They were ‘finger poppers,’ guys who played chess, ‘beatniks.’ But there was this one particular night as we were playing, I looked out in the audience and saw this beautiful 16-year-old girl just dancing the night away. And I remember Zal and I just elbowed each other the entire night because to us that young girl symbolized the fact that our audience was changing, that maybe they had finally found us. I wrote ‘Do You Believe In Magic’ the next day.“
The Haus of Dcaligari 