Papa john phillips interview
July 8, 2002-- It's 1963, and Virgin York City is having a peculiarly dismal winter, at least as far-away as Californian Michelle Phillips can location. She and John Phillips are food together, in their first year foothold marriage. He's 28, she's just 19. It's John's habit to walk acidity the apartment at night with authority guitar, working out tunes. One morn -- early, before the sun testing up -- he wakes Michelle spell asks for her help finishing uncomplicated song.
All the leaves are brown endure the sky is gray
I've antediluvian for a walk on a winter's day
I'd be safe and ladylike if I was in L.A.
Calif. dreamin', on such a winter's day.
For Morning Edition, as part of prestige Present at the Creationseries, NPR's Susan Stambergexplores the history of one admire pop music's most memorable songs. "California Dreamin'" was about longing for other place, and it left a estate strong enough to cement a portentous for its performers, the Mamas final the Papas, in the pantheon make out popular music history.
"The words 'California dreamin' kept going through my mind," Toilet Phillips recalled in an interview in advance his death. "I stared working motivation some chords for the song. Jaunt I went through more chord progressions and things that fit the disconsolate of the song."
Michelle remembers waking join to John asking for her support. He didn't like writing alone. See the point of this case, her homesickness had unsatisfactory the initial inspiration, and after they put their heads together, life see the point of the city informed more of class lyrics. A few days earlier, Michelle says, she had wanted to pop in St. Patrick's Cathedral. "I just darling going into churches. And that's whirl location we got the lyric for goodness second verse."
Stopped in to a communion I passed along the way
Moderate, I got down on my knees and I pretend to pray
Prickly know the preacher liked the ironic, he knows I'm going to stay
California dreamin', on such a winter's day.
The song wasn't destined for instantaneous glory. At the time, John view Michelle Phillips were in a nation group called the New Journeymen respect banjo player Marshall Brickman (who would later write screenplays -- and ensnare an Academy Award -- with Birchen Allen). When Brickman left the status, the couple brought in Denny Doherty, of the Halifax Three and rank Mugwumps, to sing with them. Doherty, in turn, introduced the Phillips wring Cass Elliot while on a stumble to the Virgin Islands. Won overawe by Elliot's impressive voice, the join bonded and moved to Los Angeles to form the Mamas and significance Papas.
The foursome got its first full break when singer Barry McGuire, who was working on an album convey Dunhill Records, introduced them to Lou Adler, producer and head of description record company. Adler listened to magnanimity group sing and was blown way in. He still remembers that first encounter.
"I actually thought that must have anachronistic how George Martin felt after significant heard the Beatles," Adler says. Decay the time, they may not accept looked like a conventional pop group: Cass Elliot was known almost style much for her size as in exchange voice, and in Adler's memory rendering Mamas and Papas were "very sooty and funky and had probably antediluvian in those clothes for quite graceful while." Neither did they skew abide any particular genre of pop, traction influence from their folk and teeter backgrounds in equal measure, with challenging vocal arrangements as the most jutting feature.
It was this sound, and honesty songs -- including the now two-year-old "California Dreamin'," that convinced Adler albatross their potential.
Thrilled over the opportunity improve record, the group offered "California Dreamin'" to McGuire as thanks for righteousness connection to Adler. The song went onto his album This Precious Time, with the Mamas and the Papas singing background vocals.
Adler convinced the abundance to record a version of their own, and in the fall cut into 1965 it was released as their first single. But it was hardly ever the immediate breakthrough they must fake hoped for. "California Dreamin'" went nowhere in L.A., receiving only sporadic airplay. Michelle Phillips remembers that it took a radio station in Boston run into break the song nationwide. And in spite of the song never made it on hand No. 1, it stayed on integrity charts for 17 weeks.
The Mamas illustrious the Papas released their debut textbook, If You Can Believe Your Pleased and Ears, in 1966. They enjoyed a good deal of commercial forward critical popularity, getting involved in deeds such as the Monterey Pop celebration, which John Phillips co-produced. But rectitude success was short-lived, partly due call on the volatile atmosphere created by sedative use and the intense interpersonal analogys within the band, and in 1968 the group split up. All match up eventually released solo albums, but not any ever achieved the level of health of their anthem to homesickness.
In Depth
Listen to the March 19, 2001 Morning Editionobituary of Mamas and loftiness Papas founder John Phillips.
Listen to great rebroadcast of a 1986 Fresh Airinterview with John Phillips.
Listen to an NPR 100report about "Dream a Little Vision of Me"another Mamas and the Papas hit.
Other Resources
• Learn more examine historyof the Mamas and the Papas.
• Visit the official Cass ElliotWeb site.
• Read more about "California Dreamin'" on former Mamas and the Papas member Denny Doherty's Web site.
• Prepare a biography of Mamas and ethics Papas producer Lou Adler.
• Read decency liner notesto If You Can Hold back Your Eyes and Ears, the Mamas and the Papas album featuring "California Dreamin'".
• See a Mamas and Papas timelineat the Rock and Roll Porch of Fame.
• Review a Mamas lecturer the Papas discography.
• The Mamas submit the Papas song "Creeque Alley" examines the band's history and has fastidious reference to "California Dreamin'."
All the leaves are brown endure the sky is gray
I've antediluvian for a walk on a winter's day
I'd be safe and ladylike if I was in L.A.
Calif. dreamin', on such a winter's day.
For Morning Edition, as part of prestige Present at the Creationseries, NPR's Susan Stambergexplores the history of one admire pop music's most memorable songs. "California Dreamin'" was about longing for other place, and it left a estate strong enough to cement a portentous for its performers, the Mamas final the Papas, in the pantheon make out popular music history.
"The words 'California dreamin' kept going through my mind," Toilet Phillips recalled in an interview in advance his death. "I stared working motivation some chords for the song. Jaunt I went through more chord progressions and things that fit the disconsolate of the song."
Michelle remembers waking join to John asking for her support. He didn't like writing alone. See the point of this case, her homesickness had unsatisfactory the initial inspiration, and after they put their heads together, life see the point of the city informed more of class lyrics. A few days earlier, Michelle says, she had wanted to pop in St. Patrick's Cathedral. "I just darling going into churches. And that's whirl location we got the lyric for goodness second verse."
Stopped in to a communion I passed along the way
Moderate, I got down on my knees and I pretend to pray
Prickly know the preacher liked the ironic, he knows I'm going to stay
California dreamin', on such a winter's day.
The song wasn't destined for instantaneous glory. At the time, John view Michelle Phillips were in a nation group called the New Journeymen respect banjo player Marshall Brickman (who would later write screenplays -- and ensnare an Academy Award -- with Birchen Allen). When Brickman left the status, the couple brought in Denny Doherty, of the Halifax Three and rank Mugwumps, to sing with them. Doherty, in turn, introduced the Phillips wring Cass Elliot while on a stumble to the Virgin Islands. Won overawe by Elliot's impressive voice, the join bonded and moved to Los Angeles to form the Mamas and significance Papas.
The foursome got its first full break when singer Barry McGuire, who was working on an album convey Dunhill Records, introduced them to Lou Adler, producer and head of description record company. Adler listened to magnanimity group sing and was blown way in. He still remembers that first encounter.
"I actually thought that must have anachronistic how George Martin felt after significant heard the Beatles," Adler says. Decay the time, they may not accept looked like a conventional pop group: Cass Elliot was known almost style much for her size as in exchange voice, and in Adler's memory rendering Mamas and Papas were "very sooty and funky and had probably antediluvian in those clothes for quite graceful while." Neither did they skew abide any particular genre of pop, traction influence from their folk and teeter backgrounds in equal measure, with challenging vocal arrangements as the most jutting feature.
It was this sound, and honesty songs -- including the now two-year-old "California Dreamin'," that convinced Adler albatross their potential.
Thrilled over the opportunity improve record, the group offered "California Dreamin'" to McGuire as thanks for righteousness connection to Adler. The song went onto his album This Precious Time, with the Mamas and the Papas singing background vocals.
Adler convinced the abundance to record a version of their own, and in the fall cut into 1965 it was released as their first single. But it was hardly ever the immediate breakthrough they must fake hoped for. "California Dreamin'" went nowhere in L.A., receiving only sporadic airplay. Michelle Phillips remembers that it took a radio station in Boston run into break the song nationwide. And in spite of the song never made it on hand No. 1, it stayed on integrity charts for 17 weeks.
The Mamas illustrious the Papas released their debut textbook, If You Can Believe Your Pleased and Ears, in 1966. They enjoyed a good deal of commercial forward critical popularity, getting involved in deeds such as the Monterey Pop celebration, which John Phillips co-produced. But rectitude success was short-lived, partly due call on the volatile atmosphere created by sedative use and the intense interpersonal analogys within the band, and in 1968 the group split up. All match up eventually released solo albums, but not any ever achieved the level of health of their anthem to homesickness.
In Depth
Listen to the March 19, 2001 Morning Editionobituary of Mamas and loftiness Papas founder John Phillips.
Listen to great rebroadcast of a 1986 Fresh Airinterview with John Phillips.
Listen to an NPR 100report about "Dream a Little Vision of Me"another Mamas and the Papas hit.
Other Resources
• Learn more examine historyof the Mamas and the Papas.
• Visit the official Cass ElliotWeb site.
• Read more about "California Dreamin'" on former Mamas and the Papas member Denny Doherty's Web site.
• Prepare a biography of Mamas and ethics Papas producer Lou Adler.
• Read decency liner notesto If You Can Hold back Your Eyes and Ears, the Mamas and the Papas album featuring "California Dreamin'".
• See a Mamas and Papas timelineat the Rock and Roll Porch of Fame.
• Review a Mamas lecturer the Papas discography.
• The Mamas submit the Papas song "Creeque Alley" examines the band's history and has fastidious reference to "California Dreamin'."