Between October 1965 and January 1967, their first-seven singles reached the Top Ten in the United States on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart,[2][3] and the magazine's 1966 end-of-year issue ranked the group as that year's third-best-performing singles artist, after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

[9] The Spoonful saw diminished success in 1967,[10] when only two of their singles entered the top twenty in the U.S.[3][11] Following further chart disappointments,[12] the group disbanded in 1968.

[24][nb 4] In 2023, John Sebastian, the Spoonful's primary songwriter, sold the publishing and artist royalties rights for all of his compositions to AMR Songs, an American catalog marketing company.

[29] In the years after the band's breakup, many of their original multi-track master-tapes were lost and presumed destroyed.

[33] In 2000, after the first-generation master-tapes were rediscovered, Buddha issued Greatest Hits, which was the first digital remaster of the band's material.