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The group's first single was "Go Where You Wanna Go," which didn't "go" anywhere and was pulled to focus on "California Dreamin',"

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Mamas & Papas 'California Dreaming'
The group's first single was "Go Where You Wanna Go," which didn't "go" anywhere and was pulled to focus on "California Dreamin',"

When "California Dreamin'" caught on, listeners wanted to hear more from The Mamas & the Papas, so radio stations started playing "Monday, Monday" off the album. When that song was released as a single, it shot to #1 in America.

The group had a string of hits until 1968, when they split up. They reunited occasionally until 1974, when Mama Cass Elliot died of a massive heart attack due to her poor health and eating habits.

The Mamas & The Papas recorded this song in Los Angeles at United Western Recorders, in the same studio where The Beach Boys recorded their Pet Sounds album.

Musicians on the session, which took place November 4, 1965, were some of the great session players of the era: Hal Blaine (drums), Larry Knechtel (keyboards), Joe Osborn (bass) and P.F. Sloan (guitar). John Phillips also played guitar on the track - that's him on 12-string during the intro.

This session was the first that Blaine, Knechtel and Osborn all played on together.

"The 'California Dreamin'' session was magical. John [Phillips] was very nervous. Nobody particularly liked the song, and to be honest with you, 'California Dreamin'' was maybe three or four chords. I added the 'Walk - Don't Run' Ventures guitar riffs for that 'da da da da da da.' That was all creative work inside the studio when I heard them singing on mic. I had recorded them with Barry McGuire on his second album, so I knew how good they were."

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Jack roper

I lived it. San Francisco- West Coast cruising in corvettes,  super sports 396, hotrods, drag racing, malt shops, drive-ins, smoking weed, red mountain wine, beach boys, rolling stones, Animals, rascals, Byrds, Steppenwolf, Cream, iron butter fly, Santana, jimi Hendrix, the doors, Rare Earth, Chamber Brothers, turtles, grass roots, hermits, temptations, Fourtops, and so many more groups. Summer of love in S.F. 1967. I was there. hell's Angles, Gypsy jokers, 10,000 people getting high, throwing fisbee's, dancing nude, falling out of trees, A cloud of weed covered 15,000 people. what a time growing up. we were on top of the world.

Brian Duncan

We were so spoiled in the 60s ,I'm 66 now and cherish every minute we had > Great Band came and went in a Brilliant flash Rip Cass ,Denny and John

Jesse Cortez

Cruised down the California coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles, last week. Wished Michelle Phillips would've been with me. Such a beautiful lady! Love me some Mamas n Papas music.

Irineu Pereira

AWESOME sound and video...thanks so much for the memories!

who played the flute? greatest Flute riff ever

Música clássica e imortal e também  muito bonita !

daikai brown

RIP Mama Cass

Without doubt the 60s and 70s were the golden age of rock music.

Felix Deer

Goodness me.. Michelle is so impossibly beautiful..

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