Like any record company worth their salt, MCA knows a good gimmick when they see it, and when the millennium came around...well, the 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium...
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Not to be confused with earlier hits compilations, the catalog number on this 20-song collection is MCAD-11740. This is the single-CD successor to Creeque Alley, the...
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A great overview of the music from this group, one of the founders of the California sound in the late '60s. This is a good collection of their unforgettable electric...
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With the lengthy title of Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival, this 1971 release was recorded at the event held at Monterey, CA,...
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The Collectables compilation California Dreamin' is a ten-track, budget-priced set that contains some of the Mamas & the Papas's best-loved tunes, including "Monday,...
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MCA Special Products' California Dreamin' boasts a blend of hits and album tracks, highlighted by "Monday, Monday," "Sing for Your Supper," "Glad to Be Unhappy" and the...
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They weren't the most important folk-rock group of the mid-'60s; the Byrds and others produced more enduring music. Yet the Mamas & the Papas were undoubtedly the most...
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By the time the Mamas and the Papas recorded and released their third album, the group was continuing, in the words of singer Denny Doherty, "on its own momentum."...
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At the time of its release in October 1967, Farewell to the First Golden Era was great for what it was, but ominous for what it foreshadowed, with both of those...
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In the spring of 1966, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears represented a genuinely new sound, as fresh to listeners as the songs on Meet the Beatles had seemed two years...
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An often misunderstood album, this album (aside from the 1971 "reunion" album) was the final record by the Mamas and the Papas. As time goes by, it has held up incredibly...
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This is where fans of the group can sort of stop and settle down at last. MCA Records had previously let the Mamas & the Papas' music out on CD in a trickle; the debut LP...
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Here is an example of the virtues of reading the fine print. It is only on the back cover of this album that one can glimpse the subtitle, "Live in Concert," revealing that...
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