Zalman "Zal" Yanovsky (December 19, 1944 – December 13, 2002) was a Canadian rock musician. Born in
Toronto, he was the son of political cartoonist
Avrom Yanovsky. He played lead guitar and sang for
the Lovin' Spoonful, a rock band which he founded with
John Sebastian in 1964. According to Sebastian, "He could play like
Elmore James, he could play like
Floyd Cramer, he could play like
Chuck Berry. He could play like all these people, yet he still had his own overpowering personality. Out of this we could, I thought, craft something with real flexibility." He was married to actress
Jackie Burroughs, with whom he had one daughter, Zoe.