Complete Anthology

Artist	The Mamas & the Papas
Format	CD
Genre	Rock
Label Name	Universal/MCA
Producer	Jack Nitzsche, Lou Adler, Steve Barri, Jerry Moss, Joel Sill, Bill Szymczyk, Gary Zekley
Release Date	2004
Song List	1: Monday, Monday (3:27) 2: Straight Shooter (2:58) 3: Got a Feelin' (2:51) 4: I Call Your Name (2:37) 5: Do You Wanna Dance (2:58) 6: Go Where You Wanna Go (2:28) 7: California Dreamin' (2:40) 8: Spanish Harlem (3:20) 9: Somebody Groovy (3:15) 10: Hey Girl (2:29) 100: Hang on Sloopy (4:01) 101: California Dreamin' (2:38) 11: You Baby (2:20) 12: The In Crowd (3:16) 13: No Salt on Her Tail (2:43) 14: Trip, Stumble & Fall (2:40) 15: Dancing Bear (4:10) 16: Words of Love (2:15) 17: My Heart Stood Still (1:43) 18: Dancing in the Street (3:49) 19: I Saw Her Again (3:13) 20: Strange Young Girls (2:55) 21: I Can't Wait (2:44) 22: Even If I Could (2:43) 23: That Kind of Girl (2:37) 24: Once Was a Time I Thought (1:01) 25: Glad to Be Unhappy [*] (1:44) 26: Creeque Alley [Mono Single Version][*] (3:44) 27: Words of Love [Mono Single Version][*] (2:15) 28: Dedicated to the One I Love (2:58) 29: My Girl (3:33) 30: Creeque Alley (3:48) 31: Sing for Your Supper (2:48) 32: Twist and Shout (2:53) 33: Free Advice (3:20) 34: Look Through My Window (3:07) 35: Boys and Girls Together (3:15) 36: String Man (3:01) 37: Frustration (2:57) 38: Did You Ever Want to Cry (2:54) 39: John's Music Box (1:06) 40: The Right Somebody to Love (0:40) 41: Safe in My Garden (3:13) 42: Meditation Mama (Transcendental Woman Travels) (4:22) 43: For the Love of Ivy (3:43) 44: Dream a Little Dream of Me (3:15) 45: Mansions (3:46) 46: Gemini Childe (4:29) 47: Nothing's Too Good for My Little Girl (3:08) 48: Too Late (4:10) 49: Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon) (3:25) 50: Rooms (2:48) 51: Midnight Voyage (3:12) 52: Once Was a Time I Thought [Rehearsal & Studio Chatter][*] (1:17) 53: Studio Chatter [*] (0:42) 54: I Can't Wait [Studio Chatter & Rehearsal][*] (1:15) 55: People Like Us (3:26) 56: Pacific Coast Highway (3:04) 57: Snowqueen of Texas (2:37) 58: Shooting Star (2:54) 59: Step Out (3:00) 60: Lady Genevieve (3:47) 61: No Dough (3:07) 62: European Blueboy (3:38) 63: Pearl (2:23) 64: I Wanna Be a Star (2:17) 65: Grasshopper (2:57) 66: Blueberries for Breakfast (3:00) 67: Straight Shooter [Live] (4:21) 68: Got a Feelin' [Live] (4:14) 69: California Dreamin' [Live] (2:44) 70: Spanish Harlem [Live] (4:06) 71: Somebody Groovy [Live] (4:25) 72: I Call Your Name [Live] (6:15) 73: Monday, Monday [Live] (3:32) 74: Dancing in the Street [Live] (5:02) 75: John Phillips Dialogue [Commentary][*] (2:29) 76: Cass Elliot Diologue [Commentary][*] (3:14) 77: Nowhere Man [From Hullabaloo][#] (1:21) 78: Here in My Arms [From Rodgers & Hart Today][#] (2:25) 79: It's Getting Better (3:01) 80: Make Your Own Kind of Music (2:25) 81: New World Coming (2:11) 82: The Costume Ball [From Doctor's Wives] (2:37) 83: Something to Make You Happy (2:18) 84: Mississippi (3:37) 85: Revolution on Vacation (2:38) 86: Cup of Tea (3:49) 87: Gathering the Words (4:11) 88: To Claudia on Thursday (3:09) 89: Indian Girl (3:17) 90: Baby Catch the Moon (2:49) 91: Aloha Louie (2:42) 92: There She Goes (3:55) 93: No Love Today [Mother, Jugs & Speed] (3:06) 94: Aching King (3:18) 95: This Precious Time (2:47) 96: Do You Believe in Magic (2:16) 97: Yesterday (2:52) 98: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (2:46) 99: Let Me Be (2:34)
Style.Categories	Sunshine Pop, Folk-Rock, Pop

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What's in a name? If you love mid-'60s folk-rockers the Mamas & the Papas, this four-volume U.K. Complete Anthology (2004) speaks for itself. The 101 selections run in excess of five hours centering on the vintage long-players If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966), The Mamas & the Papas (1966), The Mamas & the Papas Deliver (1967), The Papas & the Mamas (1968), People Like Us (1971), and The Monterey International Pop Festival (1971). For many, that gracious plenty would be sufficient. But the real icing (or cake for the hardcore fan) comes in the form of the nearly 90 minutes of hard-to-find material ranging from the quartet's debut as support vocalists for Barry McGuire, to rare singles, audio from a pair of television appearances, and a bevy of post-Mamas & the Papas entries from John Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Cass Elliot, and Denny Doherty as solo artists. The contents of the first four LPs sound uniformly excellent, on par with the domestic North American All the Leaves Are Brown: The Golden Era Collection (2001) anthology. They seemingly share the same source -- an actual 45 rpm platter -- for the monaural versions of both "Words of Love" and the autobiographical "Creeque Alley." The latter title is of special mention as the original mix is conspicuously different from the more familiar one that turned up on The Mamas & the Papas Deliver. The 7" contained considerably less reverb throughout, but the most obvious disparity comes during the line "And California Dreamin' is becoming a reality," which is repeated. On the one folks are probably most accustomed to hearing, only the last syllable in the word "reality" is audible. Earnest collector-types should note that a higher-fidelity rendering was incorporated into the D.A. Pennebaker documentary Monterey Pop (1968). Additional extras worth citing are the brief dialogue segments by John Phillips and Cass Elliot that surfaced on A Gathering of Flowers (1971) and were merely excerpted on the two-CD Creeque Alley (1991) package. Similarly, the studio chatter and rehearsals of "Once Was a Time I Thought" and "I Can't Wait" at the end of disc two are also holdouts from A Gathering of Flowers. John Phillips' "Revolution on Vacation," "Cup of Tea," Elliot's "Costume Ball" -- from the Doctors' Wives (1970) motion picture soundtrack -- Doherty's "To Claudia on Thursday" -- off of Jimmie Haskell's California 99 (1971) concept album -- "Indian Girl," and "Baby, Catch the Moon," as well as the majority of the Michelle Phillips sides all make their digital debut here. Complete Anthology (2004) concludes with seven cuts from Barry McGuire's This Precious Time (1966). It was during these fall of 1965 recording dates that producer Lou Adler gave the Mamas & the Papas their initial opportunity behind the microphone. Listeners will instantly recognize McGuire's rendering of "California Dreamin'" as it boasts the very same instrumental backing with a few minor alterations. Producer Adler simply replaced McGuire's voice and harmonica. Well sort of, as traces of his foghorn-like pipes are on the Mamas & the Papas hit. The 74-page liner tome is a great read, although arguably revisionist. The reams of rarely published photos, complete American discography, and chronological time line of key events make it as thorough a work of prose as exists on the foursome. Completists will want to hold onto copies of All the Leaves Are Brown if for no other reason than the mono "I Saw Her Again," the sole Mamas & the Papas-related release absent from Complete Anthology. ~ Lindsay Planer, All Music Guide