“Monday, Monday” won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1967. It became the band’s only number-one hit in the US, reached number three in the UK, and was the first number-one on Spain’s new Los 40 Principales. The third and final single from the album, “ Monday, Monday“, was released in March 1966. The quartet’s debut album, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, followed in February 1966 and became its only number-one on the Billboard 200. “Go Where You Wanna Go” was subsequently covered by the 5th Dimension, who included it on their album Up, Up and Away and it became a Top 20 pop hit for them. It peaked at number four in the United States and number twenty-three in the United Kingdom. “ California Dreamin’” was released in December, supported by a full-page ad in Billboard on the 18th of that month. There are few copies of this single extant and the follow-up, “ California Dreamin’“, has the same B-side, suggesting that “Go Where You Wanna Go” had been withdrawn. This single was “Go Where You Wanna Go”, which was given a limited release in November but failed to chart. The Mamas and the Papas made their inaugural recording singing backing vocals on McGuire’s album This Precious Time, although they had already released a single of their own by the time the album appeared in December 1965. Cass Elliot’s membership was not formalized until the paperwork was signed, with Adler, Michelle Phillips, and Doherty overruling John Phillips. Dunhill also tied the band to management and publishing deals, commonly known as a “triple hat” relationship. It led to “a deal in which they would record two albums a year for the next five years”, with a royalty of 5 percent on 90 percent of retail sales. The audition was arranged by Barry McGuire, who had befriended Cass Elliot and John Phillips independently over the previous two years, and who had recently signed with Dunhill himself. The band then traveled from New York to Los Angeles for an audition with Lou Adler, co-owner of Dunhill Records. Their rehearsals in the Virgin Islands were “the first time that we tried playing electric”. While previously, the New Journeymen had played acoustic folk, with banjo and the Mugwumps played something closer to folk rock, with bass and drums. Roger McGuinn’s more measured view is that “It was hard for John to break out of folk music, because I think he was real good at it, conservative, and successful, too.” Phillips also acknowledged that it was Doherty and Elliot who awakened him to the potential of contemporary pop, as epitomized by the Beatles. Others, including Doherty and guitarist Eric Hord, have said he hung on to it “like death”. Phillips acknowledged that he was reluctant to abandon folk music. The quartet spent the period from early spring to midsummer 1965 in the Virgin Islands “to rehearse and just put everything together”, as John Phillips later recalled. The group considered calling itself the Magic Cyrcle before switching to the Mamas and the Papas as apparently inspired by the Hells Angels, whose female associates were called “mamas”. The last member to join was Cass Elliot, Doherty’s bandmate in the Mugwumps, who had to overcome John Phillips’ concern that her voice was too low for his arrangements, that her physical appearance would be an obstacle to the band’s success, and that her temperament was incompatible with his. Both of these earlier acts were folk groups active from 1964 to 1965. The group was formed by husband and wife John and Michelle Phillips, formerly of the New Journeymen, and Denny Doherty, formerly of the Mugwumps. 2.5 1968–69: Break-up and People Like Us.2.3 1967: The Mamas & the Papas Deliver.The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 for their contributions to the music industry. They released a total of five studio albums and seventeen singles over a four-year period, six of which made the Billboard top ten, and have sold close to 40 million records worldwide.
Their sound was based on vocal harmonies arranged by John Phillips, the songwriter, musician, and leader of the group who adapted folk to the new beat style of the early sixties. The group was composed of John Phillips, Denny Doherty, Cass Elliot, and Michelle Phillips née Gilliam. The Mamas & the Papas were an American folk rock vocal group that recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968, and were a defining force in the music scene of the Counterculture of the 1960s. John Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Denny Doherty, Cass Elliot,
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