You're a Big Boy Now is a soundtrack album by The Lovin' Spoonful

The Lovin' Spoonful

The Lovin' Spoonful is an American pop rock band of the 1960s, named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. When asked about his band, leader John Sebastian said it sounded like a combination of "Mississippi John Hurt and Chuck Berry," prompting his friend, Fritz Richmond, to suggest the name...

, released in 1967. It contains some songs from the Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...

 movie of the same name

You're a Big Boy Now

You're a Big Boy Now is a 1966 film with Peter Kastner, Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Julie Harris and Karen Black, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola based on a 1963 novel, also titled You're a Big Boy Now, by David Benedictus....

. Both "You're a Big Boy Now" and "Darling Be Home Soon" were released as singles. It was re-released on CD along with What's Up, Tiger Lily?, the Spoonful's soundtrack for the 1967 Woody Allen

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...

 film.

Reception

Music critic William Ruhlman wrote of the album "Most of the rest of the score consisted of instrumentals, many augmented by an uncredited orchestra, but Sebastian's title song was also impressive."

Track listing

All songs by John Sebastian

John Sebastian

John Benson Sebastian Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and autoharpist. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000...

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1. "You're a Big Boy Now"
2. "Lonely (Amy's Theme)"
3. "Wash Her Away (From the Discotheque)"
4. "Kite Chase"
5. "Try and Be Happy"
6. "Peep Show Percussion"
7. "Girl, Beautiful Girl (Barbara's Theme)"
8. "Darling Be Home Soon"
9. "Dixieland Big Boy"
10. "Letter to Barbara"
11. "Barbara's Theme [From the Discotheque]"
12. "Miss Thing's Thang"
13. "March"
14. "Finale"