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RELEASE DATE: SOLD OUT
Only 300 vinyl LP copies imported.
Barbershop quartets gave four-part harmony a rep for being terminally square, but in 1966, a band called The Mamas and the Papas, on this very record, made it hip again. The album tracklist reads like a greatest hits record: “California Dreamin’,” “I Call Your Name,” and “Monday, Monday” were played on the radio (both AM and FM) incessantly leading up to the Summer of Love.
The original release of the album featured the band all huddled together in a bathtub, but the other main bathroom fixture that appeared in the photo got cropped out (or covered over) in subsequent releases of the disc. One thing that seemed to follow from version to version of the cover was their billing as “The Mama’s and the Papa’s,” which, while being a horrible grammatical mistake, didn’t seem to impede album sales at all. Subsequent releases from the band omitted the extra apostrophes.
DID YOU KNOW? Cass Elliot’s real name was Ellen Naomi Cohen.
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