John SebastianFilmography

Chasin' Gus' Ghost

Synopsis: Documentarist Todd Kwait helms the nonfiction mosaic Chasin' Gus' Ghost as an homage to jug band music. Using as a point-of-entry the introduction to four popular celebrators of that form - Gus Cannon, Cannon's Jug Stompers, The Dixieland Jug Blowers and The Memphis Jug Band - Kwait then employs a Read More

How to Tune Your Guitar: Get it Right Quickly and Easily!

American Roots Music, Episode 3: The Times They are A-Changin'

Crew: Commentary

Synopsis: The Times, They Are A-Changing follows the development of roots music during the '50s and '60s. During the late '50s, a folk revival swept the United States. Rooted in the work of folklorists and musicians from the '30s and '40s, the revival spread to mainstream America when the Kingston Trio Read More

Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival

Synopsis: For about a year after the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969, it seemed as though everyone wanted to stage a rock festival. However, The Rolling Stones' disastrous Altamont free concert (documented in the film Gimme Shelter) forever tarnished the image of the rock festival in the U.S., while in Read More

Married... With Children: Rock of Ages

Synopsis: Also known as "Married. . .With Children: The Musical", this episode gets under way when a financially strapped Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) wins a first-class plane ticket to Hawaii in a shoe-selling contest. Quick to cash in on this windfall, the Bundys convert the ticket into four standbys and spend Read More

John Sebastian Teaches Blues Harmonica

Synopsis: John Sebastian has been entertaining large audiences since the 1960s when he was the leader of the legendary Lovin' Spoonful. He still performs publicly when not providing his talents to a wide variety of movie and television projects. Students who prefer a more casual approach to learning are Read More

The Folk Music Reunion

Care Bears: Adventure in Wonderland

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Colin Fox

Synopsis: The cuddly pastel-colored Care Bears are back for a third feature film with their friend Grumpy. This time around, they have persuaded Alice to return with them to Wonderland. There, she must pretend to be a princess who has been kidnapped by the Evil Wizard. While many of the characters from Read More

David Bromberg: Demon in Disguise

Actors: David Bromberg, John Sebastian

Synopsis: This concert release captures respected musician David Bromberg performing a 1987 show at Iowa State University. The setlist includes renditions of "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down," "I'm a Demon in Disguise," "Dust My Broom," and "Chump Man Blues." ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

John Sebastian: Welcome Back - Live at Iowa State University

Actors: John Sebastian

Synopsis: Recorded during a 1987 show at Iowa State University, this concert video captures The Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian performing a number of his most popular songs including "Nashville Cats," "Younger Girl," and the theme song from Welcome Back, Kotter. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Learn to Play Autoharp

Synopsis: Learn to Play Autoharp features Lovin' Spoonful frontman John Sebastian offering a series of tips on how to begin playing the instrument. Viewers will learn fingerpicking and proper fingering while learning to play a variety of traditional songs. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

The Care Bears Movie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Georgia Engel, Mickey Rooney, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: In a film designed to bring smiles to the post-toddler set on up to perhaps their seven-year-old siblings, this animated story by Arna Selznick (only the third woman in cinematic history to direct a full-length animated feature) is about the popular Care Bears. These loving creatures inhabit a Read More

The Jerk, Too

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Navin Johnson, the consummate idiot, returns in this remake of Steve Martin's popular 1979 film The Jerk. As in the first, Johnson, the lily white adoptee of a black sharecropper sets out across the country in search of true love. This version was designed as a pilot for a TV series that never Read More

The Act

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Ginty, Sarah Langenfeld, John Aprea, John Tripp

Synopsis: John Sebastian's musical score lends an appropriately anachronistic touch to the endearingly outdated The Act. Robert Ginty and Sarah Langenfield are the principal participants in this satiric tale of political dirty trickery, with emphasis on underhanded union tactics. Also on hand are veterans Read More

One Trick Pony

Actors: Paul Simon, Blair Brown, Rip Torn, Joan Hackett

Synopsis: The struggle of a has-been singer to work his way back up the charts is the focus of this drama by Robert M. Young with screenplay and music by Paul Simon. Simon plays Jonah, a once-popular singer who now opens for punk rock bands. In the ten years since he had a hit song, Jonah's wife has Read More

Welcome Back, Kotter: Season 04

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman, John Sylvester White, John Travolta, Robert Hegyes

Synopsis: The fourth and final season of Welcome Back Kotter opens as capricious remedial-class teacher Gabe Kotter (Gabriel Kaplan) is promoted to vice principal of Buchanan High School, replacing his long-time nemesis Mr. Woodman (John Sylvester White)--who in turn has moved up the food chain to full Read More

Welcome Back, Kotter: Season 03

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman, John Sylvester White, John Travolta, Robert Hegyes

Synopsis: As Season Three of Welcome Back, Kotter gets under way, Julie Kotter (Marcia Strassman), the wife of Buchanan High School's funniest teacher Gabe Kotter (Gabriel Kaplan), gives birth to twin daughters. Before long, the babies are being hugged and coddled by the four prankish-but-lovable remedial Read More

The Pom Pom Girls

Actors: Robert Carradine, Jennifer Ashley, Lisa Reeves, Michael Mullins, Bill Adler

Synopsis: Guys go crazy for the gals cheering on the home team in this raunchy teen comedy from the Seventies. It's football season at Rosedale High, and Johnny (Robert Carradine) and Jesse (Michael Mullins) are eager to lead the school's team to victory. But while Coach Hartmann (Robert Gammon) wants to Read More

Saturday Night Live: Raquel Welch

Actors: Raquel Welch, Phoebe Snow, John Sebastian

Synopsis: This 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Raquel Welch and features musical guests Phoebe Snow and John Sebastian. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Welcome Back, Kotter: Season 02

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman, John Sylvester White, John Travolta, Robert Hegyes

Synopsis: The opening episode of Welcome Back Kotter's second season finds Buchanan High School teacher Gabe Kotter (Gabe Kaplan) considering the idea of giving up his "sweathog" class to accept a job with a Japanese inventor, played by Pat Morita. Other noteworthy guest stars appearing this year are John Read More

Welcome Back, Kotter: Season 01

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, John Sylvester White, John Travolta, Robert Hegyes, Ron Palillo

Synopsis: The pilot episode of Welcome Back Kotter finds history and social studies teacher Gabe Kotter (Gabriel Kaplan) taking charge of the remedial class at Brooklyn's James Buchanan High School, some ten years after he had graduated from the same class. Despite his status as a former "Sweathog", Gabe Read More

Celebration at Big Sur

Synopsis: This documentary chronicles the 1969 Big Sur Festival and features the folk-rock tunes of many of the era's most influential musicians. Included is Joan Baez singing "I Shall Be Released" and "Song for David." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Adam-12: Log 124: Airport

Synopsis: The men of Adam-12 have quite a full case load in this episode. One of the challenges facing mobile officers Reed (Kent McCord) and Malloy (Martin Milner) is to locate a young runaway named Diane (played by Ronne Troup, the daughter of future Emergency! costar Bobby Troup). There's also the little Read More

Woodstock

Actors: Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, The Who, Crosby, Stills & Nash

Synopsis: This iconic musical documentary covers the three-day 1969 music festival on the property of Max Yasger's farm that symbolized the late 1960s in terms of musical, social and political ideology of the era. American audiences are introduced to Ten Years After, featuring guitar great Alvin Lee. Jimi Read More

The Mama Cass Television Program

Actors: Mama Cass Elliot

Synopsis: This musical TV special features 60's vocalist Mama Cass singing a number of her best loved hits, including Dream a Little Dream, California Dreamin', Monday Monday, and many more. Some of the artists who collaborate with Cass in the program include John Sebastian and Joni Mitchell. ~ Cammila Read More

Classic Rhythm and Blues, Vol. 2

Crew: Musical Performer

Synopsis: MVD presents an honest look at rhythm & blues of the '80s with this program culled from various performances from top musicians in the genre. Hosted by Ben Sidran of the Steve Miller Band, the keyboardist takes a look at each band and song as he guides the viewer through the old styles of the Read More