Best of the Mamas & the Papas [Import]

by The Mamas & the Papas

Overview

This 20-song collection from MCA's British division isn't bad for the price, despite its having been supplanted by better sounding masters in the decade since its release. The annotation is almost negligible, and the producers have extended the history covered right up through numbers like "People Like Us" -- very late in the group's history (actually past its end) and filled out the quartet's songs with Cass Elliot solo tracks, but the company did ask a lot more for a lot less, and the songs certainly sound better than they did in earlier compilations, even if they're now outdone for clarity by the early 2000 remasterings. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	01/02/2001
Label:	Spectrum Music
UPC:	0008811951924
Rank:	138597

Tracks

1. California Dreamin'
2. Monday Monday
3. I Saw Her Again Last Night
4. Words of Love
5. Dedicated to the One I Love
6. Creque Alley
7. Dream a Little Dream of Me
8. It's Getting Better
9. Make Your Own Kind of Music
10. Look Through My Window
11. Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)
12. Glad to Be Unhappy
13. Straight Shooter
14. For the Love of Ivy
15. Do You Wanna Dance
16. Go Where You Wanna Go
17. Somebody Groovy
18. Shooting Star
19. People Like Us
20. I Can Dream Can't I

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Mamas & the Papas   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Bobby Freeman   Composer
Cynthia Weil   Composer
Fabian Andre   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Sammy Fain   Composer
John Phillips   Composer
Lowman Pauling   Composer
Gus Kahn   Composer
Barry Mann   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Michelle Phillips   Composer
Irving Kahal   Composer
Wilbur Schwandt   Composer