0:00 Straight Shooter 4:38 Got A Feelin’ 8:40 California Dreamin’ 12:01 Spanish Harlem 15:20 Somebody Groovy 19:49 I Call Your Name 26:04 Monday, Monday 29:58 San Francisco 33:29 Dancing In The Street
I used to think it was all Cass Elliott but if you listen to the rehearsals of "Boys and Girls" you will hear how they all work with each other. The girls really complement each other (plus it avoids one voice being double tracked; it sounds more "human" if you layer two individual voices) and you'll see Michelle in a new light and that she can actually sing instead of being JUST the eye candy. What really makes the whole thing shine is John's clever songwriting and switching who sings the main and who harmonises. Brilliant stuff!
What a beautiful time. We were all searching for the "answer" and yet we didn't know that we were living in the midst of what we were searching for. We didn't know that we had "it" until it was gone.
We lived near the Monterey Fairgrounds and I was 12 so I got to go with my older sister who got a job as an usher there. She went to all the performances but my parents only let me go to the daytime performances since I was 12. It is interesting to see the movie Monterey Pop because I see our school teachers and policemen we knew working there. I saw Janice Joplin, Steve Miller Band, Country Joe McDonald, ,Canned Heat, The Association, Ravi Shankar. But my sister saw the evening performances of the Mamas and Papas, Jimi Hendrix, The Who and many others. I am now 69 and she is 74 and lots of people in the crowd and performed there are now gone. Thanks for the memories !
Maybe check out her with Dave Mason in several "ultra rare" youtube videos. I've had the vinyl for decades, and just saw videos recently.. they are a PERFECT combination. She plays the organ on this one.. "Sit and Wonder". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4B-5VIMztgM.html
...to me it was THE REAL WOODSTOCK in fact.....the summer of love is heavy in the air...in the sound of "Flower Power"....don´t forget ALTAMONT....the down spiral BEFORE WOODSTOCK....
@@simplechronology2605 I was aware of that....just articulated confusingly...what I meant was "the down spiral before"...: it all got lost, ugly and dangerous in THE SCENE....The song "American Pie" collects it the best in my opinion...sad how the good and brave spirit of Monterey got stabbed and drowned so easily....heading for times, that to me were getting cold and corporate....Just look at Pink Floyd and their gigantonisms....leading into 80ies Yuppiedom.....a long long time ago....
Amazing how they manage to recreate the vocal harmony of their records in a live concert. There's no doubt Cass Elliot is the keystone, her voice is so crucial to the blend and cuts through everything else. Marvellous!
Great drummer with a relatively short prominent activity period (1964 to about 1970), but what he accomplished in that time frame was remarkable. Legend has it he got caught up in some of the eccentricities of the era, leading to mental health issues and forcing him out of music and back home to Chicago. He spent much of his last 40 years under supervised care and nursing homes, where he passed in 2015. Thankfully, Monterey Pop captures him in peak form, and may be the only performance video of him.
Denny and Cass voices are critical to the sound of the Mama’s & Papa’s without these 2 I don’t believe they become stars !! John’s song writing skills on full display here !!Thank You for the music Mama’s & Papa’s
Ah! The memories!! Saw them live twice, the first time in a small venue just after California Dreamin" hit the charts. Their live performances were something else! I still have their LPs I bought when they came out. There will never be another group like them!
Nobody’s mentioned the crowd pictures. They all look so happy; cuddling, hugging, kissing, riding motorcycles and feeding each other. Many gorgeous smiles and a feeling of serenity coming from everyone. Just like Scott McKenzies song lyrics… “People in Motion” 🌎 ~peace brothers and sisters~
People seemed to look better physically in the Sixties than they do now. Also this was before the hippie movement descended into hard drug use, homelessness.
@@MrRacket991The “hippie” movement involved a very small portion of the more than 80 million baby boomers - they were the anti Vietnam war protestors - thank goodness. Reagan helped that era along; in a very bad way. Peace out💞
YEAH! Defo, bossman! i am quite sure the people attending were TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY....mostly by the sheer attack of outstanding talent and far out music,,,they must have "got it": THIS was THE MOMENT!
Me too. Woodstock had great bands but too many people for the restrooms, and food. Rain and mud. We can see the bands in the movie wo. enduring mud & rain. Monterey wasnt overcrowded and had the Who and Mamas and Papas. Eric Burdon, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Laura Nyro, Hugh Masekela, Canned Heat and the Byrds; . I love all these I've mentioned and sev. werent at W stock
The music, colorful clothes styles; so wish I’d have been there. Born 10 years too late. Cass Elliot is wonderful! Absolutely love her reaction from audience to Janis Joplin’s performance “Wow man, heavyy” ☮️🎶
John Phillips was surely one of the finest pop songwriters of the 1960s, and yet is never really spoken about. If it was Brian Wilson or Lennon/McCartney who wrote "Twelve Thirty", "Strange Young Girls", "Dancing Bear", "I Saw Her Again", these songs would be seen as sacred. Mama Cass is rightfully the most well-known figure of the group, but John really deserves massive credit for his songwriting genius.
Mike, Cass is simply the most amazing female lead vocalist of all time, but you can compare the shear volume of great songs by Lennon/McCartney,, Bob Dylan, or Willie Nelson, to a man who wrote a few 4-5 great songs over two year period.
My Mom used to play their albums on the hifi in our living room, '68. This is the first time I've seen/heard this live version, but I still listen to those albums. They're as fresh as the day they were released, 50 years ago. I will never tire of listening to them.
Way cool. I used to wake up on Saturdays to mom blasting Tom Jones, Ray Charles and Herb Alpert and the TJB. I later got her into Zep VH and the Stray Cats. Took her and Dad to see Brian Setzer for her 75th bday. May they both RIP. Good memories for sure 😊
I am so so pleased and thankful the 60's happened music wise, because the 70's, 80's and 90's would have never happened in the way it did. Brilliant concert and video.
Im 74. Its great to see videos of my favs cause i really didn't get a chance to see them touring back then. It's nice to see them performing in their early years.
The talent, modesty, humor, melodies, compassion, beauty, cohesiveness, and connection. This was an era that has now long since faded into our distant memory. I was so fortunate to grow up in this time period and feel sorry for the youth of today. I truly believe that they have no idea what true living is, what true talent is, what true art, beauty and connection is. I am older now, but I wouldn't trade it for anything to be young in todays world. I have something that no one will ever take away from me....The memories of the events that I lived oh so grandly with my eyes wide open, breathing, moving, laughing, looking into the sky and knowing that I was, and that I am truly alive.
55 years ago. So much has happened and changed. Most of those people then are now very old if not gone. They were all so young and healthy. Peaceful and starting to push back against the Viet-Nam war. I was 7 and mostly into the Beatles. I didn't find the Momma's and the Pappa's until I returned to the States in 1975. By then Cass was gone, and the music was Disco. When I lived in San Fransico, all I was into were these festival songs, Donna Sommer, and of course The Beatles. By then, they too had gone their separate ways. I wish I had been a few years older to appreciate and known all these wonderful groups when they were with us and in their prime. Thanks for posting this historic clip. Thanks for the music and the memories RIP.
I was the same age. So wish I’d been able to go to ‘67 Monterey Pop and ‘69 Woodstock. The flower people as some have called them helped stop the war. Remember wearing POW/MIA bracelets at age 13 we were part of the movement too. “Walk for Mankind” also, blisters on feet but we walked miles to raise money. Would have loved to live in San Francisco for the psychedelic 60’s deluge of long haired hippie bands. Where I grew up “Tulsa Sound” we had lots of live music venues, going to them on the wink at age 17/18 dancing with abandon. Glad parents gave me the freedoms to explore great memories.
Geez, what I did then had nothing to do with the M&Ps, but I can say their music permeated American society. They started in the folk/ Hootenanny side of music and evolved into pop because 'that's where the money was'. After all, that's why they hosted this concert. Their band was a kind of false paring, sort of like the Association with its tossed together group of guys who hung out together. Phillips was a total song thief, grabbing things from other more talented writers. His talent wasn't in music but in promotion, mostly himself. I think his life speaks for itself. Mama Cass went off on her own, which is what she should have done. She carried the group, once people got tired of looking at Mama Phillips, they had to listen, and they did to her and Denny. He was great. I guess they're all gone today, except Phillips.
I honestly think I like this music better now than I did when it was new. This is some great stuff right here, eternally etched into the cosmic record. I hope I live to see another incarnation of this level of musicianship and songwriting.
The good music is out there, you just have to know where to look. The indie scene literally has any music you could imagine, just get off the mainstream shit.
Brilliant band were the Mamas and Papas. My favourite song of theirs was Twelve Thirty, Young girls are coming to the canyon. In 1967 they were ahead of their time. Wonderful harmonies.
I'm 66 years old. Wish I had been an adult in 1967. I remember my mother was going to go to Woodstock but she had 3 kids. No one to stay with us for a week or so. Songs about love. No hip hop kill the police music. A time with less violence.
A time that actually set up all of the problems that we now have. The hippies thought that they were the end of history. They wanted the world to be the Haight Ashbury in SF. Well, that turned into chaos, and now the Baby Boomers are doing it everywhere.
Don't really know about "less violence"? Cops were bashing in heads of anti-war protesters and people of color all over the US at that time w/out consequences. Now, one can sue them and win settlements when your right to protest is violated.
I've always loved them since I was 8 years old that was in 1972 I listen to mostly classic Rock but these guys were so GREAT and I had a crush on Michelle 💖
Was 13 in ‘72, love this whole groovvyyy band; you’re correct, Michelle is so beautiful! The visuals from the Monterey Pop ‘67 festival make me long for a Time Machine to experience the vibe ☮️.
I read in some other interviews that she thought the performance in Monterey was the worst? In her and Cass's backup singing? She could have stepped it up? She was a little far from the 🎤 mic.
I ‘lived’ this group. At 15 I was loving all the very best music of any decade. ‼️ so many memories are filling my heart and soul right now. Best years of my lifetime.
These guys were so good. They may looked strange but could ever sing! Mama's and Papas make great records and John Phillips was an amazing songwriter and vastly under appreciated for it.❤
John Phillips what is a master at arranging vocal harmonies. He also wrote some wonderful songs. Cass Elliot was, well, she was Cass Elliot. RIP Mama Cass.❤💚☮️😊
I just noticed following this through to the end that Hal Blaine of the Wrecking Crew was sitting in with Eddie Hoh for a dual drumming closeout @37:04 through 37:09. Hal played on virtually EVERYTHING that came out in that era, inc Mamas and Papas and Simon and Garfunkle, Beach Boys, you name it. Another legend now departed.
GREAT post. Thank you. It's no wonder they were so popular. John Phillips was an excellent songwriter, and the band's vocal harmonies are SUBLIME and second to none.
This was actually the Mamas and the Papas performing as a trio sonically. Prior to the Mamas and Papas set , some of the microphones were damaged in The Who's performance. Michelle's microphone was not functioning. In these performances, particularly in "I call your name" At the end of the song you can see her frustration with the microphone. She is said to have run off the stage in tears with the anger and frustration. To those who question her contribution to the sound of the Mamas and the Papas the difference is certainly apparent. This performance of the New Journeyman clearly demonstrate all Michelle brought to the sound of the Mamas and the Papas. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r6TOk5kI8FA.html
After Michelle’s affair with Denny, John fired her from the group. The group then realized how important Michelle was to their sound and brought her back.
I was going to make a similar comment. She was a fine singer - not outstanding but her blend made that sound. Without her, it’s definitely missing something. Much like how Linda McCartney wasn’t really a great singer but she, Paul and Denny Laine singing together is what made the Wings sound.
I didn't see her run off with frustration or show any dissatisfaction with the microphone. This is a girl who got whatever she wanted. It was John who swore he'd have Michele's voice removed from all M an P's product- and he did.
@noscrubbubblez6515 I'm sorry I didn't know you were there at the concert. If you care to reference Michelle's biography for the information you will find it there. Cheers
I got into the hippie scene in 1970 at 17. Joined the Army at the height of the drug years in Vietnam when there was somewhat of a mutiny among the troops fed up with the politics of the war. I fell in with the hippie GI's "the heads" as they were called and spent my whole tour overseas stoned on drugs. In 1973 after my time in the Army was over I spent some time in San Francisco near the end of the hippie era. It was a 'trip' for sure. Haven't touched any drugs since 1975 when I got saved and became a Christian. God loves you all.
The Late great Joe Osborn, on bass- he played bass on all their hits- and on so many other hits- it's pretty amazing. One of the most recorded electric bassists in history.
Undoubtedly Joe is one of the greatest studio bassists of all time, with a very distinctive pick sound. Perhaps surprisingly Phil Lesh is the only contemporary bassist with such a pick-oriented sound, I can think of. BUT...1) Joe is partially credited with discovering and promoting The Carpenters...yet Hal Blaine says Joe stopped listening so closely during that time. 2) If you listen closely Joe plays a bum note on the outro to Monday Monday that momentarily throws the group. They're all such good musicians that they recover very quickly...but Joe's mistake shows it can happen to the best.
These are my teenage years,i love everthing they sung,and i am English and love the byrds, scott Mackenzie,the doors ,the walker brothers etc, as well as all of our great British artists ❤
I wish I could have seen them in person, I adored them all. I did see and get to meet Janis Joplin and still have the autograph she gave me. she kissed me on my cheek and told me I was cool. I was a nerdy farm boy in high school at the time. That's my touch in with this beat generation.
Whata band it was !!!! One singer was my Canadian fellow from the Atlantic Province of Nova Scotia !! They were just AWESOME ... even live on the stage !!!! I was in the 3rd year of my Elementary School in Europe, on the other side of so-called: "IRON CURTAIN" !!
You are so right, lightsone2. It's one of my most favorite vinyl albums I still own and have ever played. I also have the cassette tape and CD. A fantastic recording by a most fantastic group of musicians!
Monterrey was the Mother of all the great music festivals that followed. Just awesome 'Love Vibes' infused with Ergotine Manna. Man what a Groovy Time it was back then. Music flowed like a river. ❤😊❤
"Fast" Eddie Hoh on drums, Joe Osborn on bass, Eric "The Doctor" Hord on electric guitar, and Larry Knechtel on piano. Over the years some of the Mamas and Papas members mentioned that there was little to no rehearsal for that Monterey Festival appearance, and while the performance is a little ragged, it's spirited and energetic. Hard to do a gig when your microphones aren't working correctly. Eddie Hoh played drums on the top-selling "Super Session" album. Hal Blaine was probably stuck in Los Angeles cranking out his usual slate of double-scale sessions. Michelle is the only one still living as of this date. That is if you don't count their producer, Lou Adler, who is 89 as I write this.
@@JPcares Thanks for your comment. What I found out since my original comment is that Hal Blaine was actually there at Monterey Pop, and performed along with Eddie Hoh on this tune: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S5pyPrz8Z4Y.html . Eddie did play most of the Mamas & the Papas set by himself though.
@@helmutsecke3529 Elliot's - in Ordnung. Aber "Helmut's" ist falsch. Der Apostroph hat im Deutschen keine genitivkennzeichnende Funktion, ist immer nur ein Auslassungszeichen. Oder spielt ihr in Sachen Zusatzbuchstaben das Rührmichnichtan, werter Herr?
Merci pour ce beau moment incroyable et magique avec de magnifiques personnes pleines de simplicités et de talents : des voix harmonieuses et des chansons toujours aussi belles et indémodables .
Purely Awesome, Real Live 4 Part Harmonies, No Tape or Digital Effects, No In Ear Monitors, No Click Tracks, No Auto Tune, Fully Analog, No BS, WYSIWYG… It’s sad this film was tied up in litigation for so long in order to reveal just how incredibly talented all the musicians were at Monterey Pop in 1967!!!
Love the people watching concert footage here!! Interesting band visually, and of course, they had that great sound. Also I didn't know that Mama Cass had such sense of humor about herself😏❤
