The Mama's & The Papa's Self-Titled LP ? NEAR MINT Dunhill Records US Pressing ?
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The Mamas & the Papas Studio album by The Mamas & the Papas Released August 30, 1966 Recorded 1966 Genre Sunshine pop, folk rock, psychedelic pop Length 31:07 Label Dunhill Producer Lou Adler The Mamas & the Papas chronology If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears(1966) The Mamas & the Papas
(1966) The Mamas & The Papas Deliver
(1967) Singles from The Mamas & the Papas
- "I Saw Her Again"
Released: June 1966 - "Words of Love"
Released: November 1966 - "Dancing in the Street"
Released: 1966 - "Dancing Bear"
Released: 1967
The Mamas & the Papas is the self-titled second studio album by The Mamas & the Papas, released in 1966. The album peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard 200album chart and number 24 in the UK. The lead off single, "I Saw Her Again", reached number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 11 in the UK Singles Chart. "Words of Love" was released as the second single in the US peaking at number 5. In the UK, it was released as a double A-side with "Dancing in the Street" (a cover of the 1964 hit by Martha and the Vandellas) and charted at number 47 in the UK.
After it was discovered that group member Michelle Phillips was having an affair with Gene Clark of the Byrds, tension in the band erupted and Phillips was fired from the group on June 4, 1966. In June, a new singer was hired to replace her. Jill Gibson was producer Lou Adler's girlfriend at the time and was already a singer/songwriter who had performed on several Jan and Dean albums.
The photo already chosen for the album's cover featured Michelle Phillips prominently, so Dunhill had Gibson take a photo posed in exactly the same position as Michelle, and then superimposed the new photo over that of Phillips. However, the decision was then made to shoot an entirely new picture with the new line-up, and to also change the album's title to Crashon Screamon All Fall Down. Several thousand advance pressings of the album with this cover and title were sent out to radio stations and record distributors, but with the return of Michelle to the group just prior to the LP's general release, the original cover and eponymous title were quickly reinstated. Copies of the rare Crashon pressings are now highly sought after collectors items.
The album was first issued on CD in 1988 (MCAD-31043) and also appears in its entirety on All the Leaves are Brown, a retrospective compilation of the band's first four albums, with the single versions of "I Saw Her Again" and "Words of Love".
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Original track listing
All songs by John Phillips, unless otherwise noted.
Side one
- "No Salt on Her Tail" - 2:35
- "Trip, Stumble and Fall" (John Phillips, Michelle Gilliam) - 2:35
- "Dancing Bear" - 4:08
- "Words of Love" - 2:13
- "My Heart Stood Still" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 1:43
- "Dancing in the Street" (Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson, Ivy Jo Hunter) - 3:00
Side two
- "I Saw Her Again" (Phillips, Denny Doherty) - 2:50
- "Strange Young Girls" - 2:45
- "I Can't Wait" - 2:40
- "Even If I Could" - 2:40
- "That Kind of Girl" - 2:20
- "Once Was a Time I Thought" - 0:58
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