Dream a Little Dream of Me - The Mamas and The Papas | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION!
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Cass Elliot had an incredible voice.
I think she had a future as a comedic actress as well. She didn't do a lot in the short time she was with us but you could see with more experience that she had potential to be really good at it.
She is what I imagine angels sound like.
Incredible, I also forget how many crooner type songs this group did. Hell, Sinatra and Nat King could sing this song and fit into their catalog.
Cass Elliot, what a voice!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Incredible.
Monday, Monday is a great song. You don’t listen to the Mamas & Papas for the instrumentation, you listen for Cass Elliot’s voice and the harmonies.
Amen!
@Blue Wave 2020 Well, Cass and Denny for sure.
Not to mention judging a '60s song based on its stereo mix, which would have been created as an afterthought in the age of mono.
@@kbob1163 Yes, not music made to play through headphones. Made for a mono radio. All their mixes are a bit weird to listen though headphones.
“This is Dedicated to the One I Love” is another beautiful cover they do, absolutely worth a listen. “Creeque Alley” is also very good.
YES, that's SUCH a beautiful rendition, so harmonious!
Totally agree on both!
Yes. Dedicated to the One I Love might well be my favorite Mamas and Papas song.
Agree and I also enjoy, I Saw Her Again Last Night.
Did they ever cut a bad song? I don't know of one.
As someone who grew up while this music was coming out, I recommend that you check out their song “I Saw Her Again”.
Strong harmonies, great lyrics and musicianship, high production value are all on display in that tune.
Keep up the good work, fellas!!!
Yes, oh my God! "I saw her again last night" brings back such overwhelming memories of my experience at an amusement park and becoming a man...holy shit!
My fav by them.
@@rtr7227 Also my favorite!
"I Saw Her Again" is a indeed a great record - and it has that intruiging false start to the reprise section which sounds like a very high profile mistake - but in a documentary on the Mamas and Papas "Behind the Music" producer Lou Adler says no, it was deliberate.There was also a single edit which it brought to down to under 3 minutes (improving chances of 1967 airplay).
Sounds great loud in a good set of headphones for all the intricacies in the vocal harmonies.
Mama Cass had perfect pitch. She had an amazing voice. Great review guys
Their version of “Dedicated To The One I Love” is a MUST LISTEN!! Right up there with Cal Dreaming, IMO.
Yes and of the few to feature Mama Michelle on lead vocal.
YES!!!
Mama Cass and John Denver sang a duet of his song "Leaving on a Jet Plane" that is just sublime. It will move you to tears.
I like their version but I tend to like Peter, Paul and Mary's version a bit better. I still have them on my play list. But hey John Denver's a force too!! ☺️☺️
@@aileenturrietta7553 yes, the Peter, Paul, and Mary version is stunningly beautiful!
Everything by Peter Paul and Mary is beautiful!
Yes! John Denver and Cass Elliott live performance of leaving on a jet plane is phenomenal
God bless Cass forever. The voice of angel. Thanks for doing this one. It's gorgeous.
This is great. But Monday, Monday is an iconic song! Almost as much as California Dreamin.
I agree!
Absolutely ✌️
Like their reviews, definitely got this one wrong!
I'm going to guess that what they're objecting to on "Monday, Monday" is how it sounds in the headphones.
Monday Monday is a long time fav...they got this so wrong.
Cass Elliott gone way too soon. Her voice is a salve. Great reaction Gents!
She ate herself to death. That’s not early, it’s a form of suicide
She died of heart failure.
Morning 🌄
"Her voice is a salve." is so fitting. I likes it.
@@Shadowrider1872 Hi John 💜
This song was written in 1931. Cass Elliot, one of the best female voices in my opinion. Keith Moon and Cass Elliot, both died 4 years apart in the same apartment owned by Nilsson
Wow, did not know that.
That's crazy 😲
@@alrivers2297 certainly freaks me out.
Wow didn't know that either
They died in the same bedroom as well.
Her voice in this one. 💕
So funny that this over 90 y.o. song is 1 of the best you've heard this year!! It's why standards are standards! Mama Cass Elliott had a special voice, she could sing multiple styles.
And proves good is good no matter what
Was listening to this on vinyl in our living room as a kid and my mom said, "Now THAT'S an old song."
Do you realize how many artists have done this song? In how many movies this song is presented?? It is a supreme classic!
I'm pleasantly surprised you guys loved this - I was afraid you would think it too old- fashioned and cheesy. This is a classic song from 1931, which they recorded as a Mama Cass solo to show off her vocal chops. In glad you appreciated the talent!
First recorded by Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra and recorded by many artists since, including Ella Fitzgerald and Doris Day.
Try "Creeque Alley." It's their origin story. (A little surprised that you preferred this to "Monday, Monday." Just an FYI, "Dream a Little Dream" is a SUPER old song.)
No one’s getting fat except Mama Cass.
Love that song and it is a mini rockumentary of their time together.
The Mamas and The Papas themselves disliked Monday, Monday for lacking anything more meaningful than just singing about a day ..... They did however cherish I Saw Her Again.
"Creeque Alley" is a song to listen to after you have watched a documentary about the band's history - although it's musically a good track a lot of the lyrical references will make no sense at all if you don't. "Monday Monday" (FGS the Mono version - not the cod stereo version!) is the one I would steer you toward though - with "I Saw Her Again" a close second. Of course "California Dreamin'" which you have already hit is probably the one that stands up the best of all.
Love that song. When I was a kid I couldn't work out why it felt so suspenseful when the lyrics were not. Then I realised the chord arrangement is all sevenths and I think that is so cool.
Try "I Saw Her Again",
Or, for complex harmonies and lyrics, "Along Comes Mary" by The Association.
I'm a bit surprised that A&A hasn't hit the Association, yet, since that band had four major hits that are considered to be definitive Sixties songs: "Along Comes Mary", "Cherish", "Windy", and "Never My Love".
Yes both are awesome!!
Mama Cass had such a beautiful voice. "Go Where You Wanna Go" is an amazing song by them that definitely deserves a listen. Have a great week everyone!
For big vibes from the Mamas and Papas, try "Twelve-Thirty," "I Saw Her Again Last Night," or "Go Where You Wanna Go"; the grooves are there to be found.
Yes!!
This was a jazz standard from the 30s. Others would recommend Creeque Alley, an autobiographical song on how the group was formed, I would go with I Saw Her Today, a tongue in cheek song about betrayal (as the lead singer was sleeping with the the other guy's wife (Michelle Phillips), while breaking the heart of the member that had a crush on him (Cass Elliot). It is interesting, to me, because they left a mistake in the final mix, prematurely coming in with the final verse for a half bar, then restarting on time.
You're thinking of "I Saw Her Again Last Night", not "I Saw Her Today".
Dedicated to the One I Love, I Saw Her Again. S-Level
Definitely do Creeque Alley.
Dedicated to the one I love
Yes, this!
You should try "Dedicated to the One I Love". And I'd call that piano honky tonk.
Yes, their “Dedicated to the One I Love” is epic.
Yep. The key (no pun intended) as to why it worked so well is that the Wrecking Crew's ace pianist Larry Knechtel used a tack piano for this song to give it an old-timey feel.
Try listening to Monday Monday without the headphones (most people didn't listen to music that way back then - so the mix of left and right might be off).
Wasn't it recorded in mono, originally?
Proud of you guys on this one. Keep loving the music 🎶
Did I really just hear y'all trash Monday, Monday or was that a fever dream? It's a magically beautiful song.
mama cass had a great voice indeed
I really like Cass' solo song "Make Your Own Kind of Music."
I sing this at work when I’m not digging the radio.
Dream a Little Dream of Me" is a 1931 song with music by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt and lyrics by Gus Kahn.[1] It was first recorded in February 1931 by Ozzie Nelson and also by Wayne King and His Orchestra, with vocals by Ernie Birchill. A popular standard, it has seen more than 60 other versions recorded.
The Mamas & The Papas came out of the folk music scene of the early 60’s. It was a lot softer than the blues based rock music that was developing. They were basically four voices that used The Wrecking Crew ( L.A. based studio pros) to record their tracks.
The Wrecking Crew doesn't get enough credit for 1960s music. The Monkees were criticized for not playing their instruments, but the Mamas and Papas, the Association, Sonny and Cher, Simon and Garfunkel, the Righteous Brothers, and even the Beach Boys (and many more artists) all utilized the Wrecking Crew for their hit songs.
Still, it was Papa John Phillips’ songs that gave the Wrecking Crew something to work with. Interesting that “California Dreaming” is both a great song and a great record, while “Monday Monday” is a great song but a deeply flawed record. It’s been pointed out for decades that when the group enters after the break for their last round of “ba-das,” they’re a quarter step flat. How do you miss something like that in production?
I keep waiting for some reactors to react to the Wrecking Crew documentary.
Perhaps you haven’t developed a taste for folk music? Monday Monday is an absolute classic. The harmonies, the lost feeling of the times. I’m surprised you didn’t enjoy it. Mama Cass has a gorgeous voice. A powerhouse!
"Monday, Monday" has some of the best minor-key harmonies ever used in a pop song.
What do you mean?They said they did enjoy the song.
Amen!
The piano was Larry Knechtel who won a Grammy for his arrangement (playing) on S&G’s Bridge Over Troubled Water. Larry was also a superb session bass player and a member of Bread. The bass player on this session and most Mamas and Papas stuff was Joe Osborn, a freakin’ legend. Hal Blaine on drums.
The Golden Trio
Mostly Mama Cass here and shows how great her voice was. RIP Mama.
A&A, their "Go Where You Wanna Go" and "Creeque Alley" are next for you!! Also, Mama Cass' solo "Make Your Own Kind Of Music"!!!
Such a clean, perfect song. Cass Elliott was amazing!
Yea Mama Cass!! I’m very happy you both liked this…great way
to start the day! ❤️🔥
Gosh, how can’t you love “Monday, Monday?!!”
Just wow.
"Creeque Alley"
"I Saw Her Again"
"Dedicated to the One I Love"
"Go Where You Wanna Go"
I also recommend "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),
" by Scott McKenzie and written by John Phillips.
Yes, Scott McKenzie!
Interesting that you dismissed their biggest hit. "Monday Monday" was the only one of their hits that went to number one in the US. "California Dreaming" is likely their most popular in all the years since if you figure in uses in other media, streams, etc. but still I think you need to give "Monday Monday" another chance. One of my favorites is "For the Love of Ivy" which was not one of their bigger hits but still got a lot of airplay on oldies stations over the years. "I Saw Her Again Last Night", "Dedicated to the One I Love", and "Creeque Alley" are must listens from their catalog. While they did write a lot of their stuff, they also did a lot of covers adding the twist of their unique vocal arrangements.
They're all about form over substance. All surface. Shallow.
"i saw her standing there" great song. also, "make your own kind of music" which is another one Mama Cass sings.
The piano sound is honky tonk.
For many of their tracks, the mono versions are where they really shine - better mix, more cohesive without the hard panning on the vocals. Apparently their label ditched the mono masters in the early '70s, so the best we'll get now are vinyl rips posted to CZcams.
Glad I still have my original vinyl of their greatest hits! After all my cross country moves much of it got lost but I still have a few gems, thankfully.
I found a mono link - even recorded off of vinyl it sounds better : czcams.com/video/xxLRO8NXar4/video.html
That's typical of lots of Beatles tunes too - the mono is THE mix to go by.
Wow, can't imagine preferringing this to "Monday, Monday"
Same here!
Yeah I don't get it. I would say Monday Monday is probably their second biggest head if I'm right on my guessing.
Another fave: their cover of "I Call Your Name". I love Cass in that.
Wow… Monday, monday is an instant classic. But good thing you listened dream a little dream too 😅
this song was written by Gus Kahn in 1931 :) guess you can say it's timeless.
The song is from 1931, and they do a great job of giving an old timey feel without making it feel like a parody.
A song with a similar vibe is Daydream by The Lovin' Spoonful. It was written in the 1960s but had a 1930s feel.
if you havent seen it yet, the movie "The Wrecking Crew" is about the studios and session musicians of LA who performed the music on ALL the great 60s songs. for a time, they were kings. in the 70s, bands took control of their own destinies.
Beautiful song. Love Cass's voice. Great reaction guys, thanks for hittin it 😊
“This is Dedicated to the One I Love” is so good...Monday Monday and Creeque Alley are good too
Highly suggest Mamas & Papas' classic hit; went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (& #2 in the UK) in 1967: "DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE" ~ Gorgeous Song ~***
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“I saw her again” is a favorite of mine
You gave The Mammas and the Papas a quick second glance. Try the Carpenters again - We’ve Only Just Begun.
Love this and their cover of Beatles' I Call Your Name.
Twelve Thirty is an overlooked great song by them. A cool song about time spent in Laurel Canyon. My fav after California Dreamin. Same vibe.
Lovely song. This is the song that catapulted Mama Cass into stardom as a solo act. She was all over television back in the 60s and early 70s. We had something called variety comedy shows back then.. lots of them. Along the lines of The Carol Burnett Show or Ed Sullivan. Mama Cass was on every single one of them multiple times. Not to mention all the talk shows during the day and late night. She became a hit and places like Las Vegas. She had become a household name.. funny talented personable. All around engaging personality. So you can imagine it came as quite a shock when she was discovered dead in her Apt. right in the middle of a tour. She was only 34! They're still some controversy as to how she died. But it was yet another one of those terrible shocking blows this generation sadly kinda grew used to back on those days. May she RIP.
P.S. she made the moomoo famous. Look it up. LOL
Yes yes yes! Gorgeous song. What a voice!
You were "'underwhelmed" by MONDAY, MONDAY? Wow! I usually don't disagree with you guys too much, but that's a hot take from you guys I'm not on board with because those harmonies just soar beautifully. I appreciate you giving them another listen with DREAM A LITTLE DREAM, however.
Agreed. Holy crap.
Monday, Monday is great, but I do agree that the way it's mixed, it shows it's age...when I got my first stereo in the late 60's and I played their albums, that song seemed a little out of balance in the way it separated on the speakers. I preferred it on the radio. Lol. But still an all time classic
Need to hear her Words of Love and her solo Make Your Own Kind of Music
Agreed! So glad you selected it. Used to sing this, American pie, and Kiss on My List on the long drive up to the cottage with the kids.
One of the most achingly beautiful songs ever written, performed masterfully.
Once soon a time in Laurel Canyon in Cass Elliott's living room she told three solo musicians who were in major 60's Groups..that their harmonies were amazing they needed to form their own group. The three musicians ..Crosby, Stills, Nash. ..Thanks Mama Cass!
Kinda surprised that you didn't care for Monday Monday... Try the 'mono' version if the stereo mix put you off.
And yes, Cass and Co. doing their version of Dream a Little Dream is absolute perfection.
Here’s one czcams.com/video/xxLRO8NXar4/video.html
The honky-tonk piano is so tasty in this, you get the honky-tonk sound by very slightly de tuning the piano and I love it, it is used sometime in dag time music too so good spot Alex.
I can't believe you guys didn't like Monday Monday & loved this. Dream a little dream is ok, but Monday Monday is a classic.
Check one of these tunes out next, I think both are better than Dream a little dream.
I Saw Her Again Last Night
This is Dedicated to the one I love.
By the way, Dream a little dream is a very old song, covered by a lot of people. It was very old when they covered it.
Another great reaction guys. There were many superb groups who came through in the Swinging Sixties (as we called it here in the UK), and the Mamas and The Papas were right up there with the best of them. Still love you Mama Cass.
Huh, I like the song, Monday Monday ~ back when the song was popular we listened to it on the radio ~ perhaps listening through headphones makes a difference.
mama Cass, great interpreter of most any genre. great reaction guys. The great Wrecking Crew backing them up as well as many other artists of the 60's. They were pretty much uncredited studio musicians .
My own Momma, who was nicknamed Cass, loved Cass Elliot. I still have my mom's copy of Cass Elliot's solo album which is the same name of this song. Thanks for playing it today🙂
Deep cut suggestion for The Mammas and the Pappas: “Twelve Thirty”. It’s on their Greatest Hits, but I don’t think it was a huge single for them. But it’s one of my favorites of theirs. It feels closer to California Dreamin in mood. I think it was in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Words of Love is another M's&P's song that features Mama Cass Elliott.
Oringinally Buddy Holly. I love that one!
Words of Love and I Call Your Name. I respectfully request these two stellar numbers. The second song was on the Beatles' second album. John wrote it.
The Mamas and Papas did a magnificent cover of the song, "Dedicated to the One I Love" covered previously by The Shirelles in 1960. The Mamas and Papas gave it a compelling new edge worth checking out.
“ Friday on my mind” by the Easybeats next
I love it by Bowie also but I think this version just a little bit more.
Of all the band that covered this song, thank goodness they were one of them.
Try "Stormy" by The Classics IV if you want to recapture that late 60s magical mood you experienced with "California Dreaming."
Love that song, but like Spooky more!! 👍
Enjoyed listening to M & P as a teen and am glad you hit this song. You’re still missing some 60’s bands that I think you would enjoy. Please try Young Rascals (Groovin’, It’s a Beautiful Morning), Dave Clark Five ( Because, Glad All Over), Troggs ( Wild Thing, With a Girl Like You) and some 70 artists like John Denver (one of best voices ever…Sunshine on my Shoulders, Country Road and many others)
Mama Cass has such a beautiful voice. Kind of like how we all love to hear Karen Carpenter, or Linda Ronstadt cover a classic tune.
I have a lot of respect for you guys for doing this, calling an audible and choosing another song by this group because you "wanted to like them again and to like them immediately." Well played, young squires. I had to chuckle that you were listening to a song written in 1931, recorded in 1968, and you were fairly gushing over it. (Plus it was basically a Cass Elliott solo piece rather than a harmony laden M&P piece. As they say at the steakhouse, well done, boys. Well done.
Pretty sure Mama Cass did this solo without the group.
She actually did both.
Monday Monday was a huge song at the time. If I was picking a song of theirs it would be that one.
"Monday, Monday" is a great song, but the stereo mix does probably sound a bit dated to modern ears. Stereo mixes in the 1966 were still kind of a novelty, and it can be a little distracting to hear some of the weird separation they came up with. Probably not a terrible idea to try to find mono mixes for tracks before 1969 or 1970, honestly.
Absolutely. Some Beatles singles are terrible in stereo.
Yeah, the sound is subpar for sure, plus I seem to recall reading somewhere that the group's original masters were lost -- all subsequent remasters are NOT done from the first-generation recording.
My theory is that extreme stereo separation on vinyl records in the '60s was aimed for playing on huge living room consoles that were popular at the time, or systems with speakers in opposite corners of rooms. The mix teams were trying to give the listener a feel for being in the middle of a concert, or even the studio. The problem was the extreme separation now makes these mixes nearly unlistenable on headphones and earbuds today. I think a lot of these songs are better with the mono 45 rpm (7-single) mixes anyway -- a lot more crunch and energy to them. (The 45s were generally amped to be played in juke boxes and on AM radio stations.
A few minutes before my 97 year old father died last winter, I was singing this to me, and though he had been unresponsive for hours, he started humming along. Now I cry whenever I hear or sing it
That little bit of happiness and melancholy while your love is away is called longing.
There's no way this is better than Monday Monday. Not on a Monday Tuesday Wednesday.....
😉
Yep
You legitimately have to listen to louis prima in his glory days, like the 50s and 60s. He will put a big italian smile on your face.
I was a kid when this song came out. Every time I hear it I am transported back to 1968-9, walking next to the ocean in Satellite Beach, FL. I associate it with pink and white scallop shells, warm salty breezes, and my family waiting for a table at the NCO club restaurant on Thanksgiving Day...a rare treat for us. Fond memories. 🙂
Dedicated to the One I Love is another great one that gives Michelle Phillips’ soprano a chance to shine, which rarely happened as her voice wasn’t as strong as Cass Elliott or Denny Doherty’s.
I Call Your Name is another good one.
I personally like their Creeque Alley which is a musical biography of what they, & some of the other groups of the time, we’re going through but you kind of need to know who the “Mugwumps” & other groups were to get it...but it’s still fun! 😄
Monday Monday was a commercial success....but John Phillips (the writer of it) could never understand why as he didn’t think it was one of their better songs 🤷🏼♀️. Glad you came back to a good one! You cant beat Cass’ voice. Another one we lost way too soon.
I think if you listen to "Monday, Monday", you'll get closer to the feeling you had for the band after your first reaction.
You want to be trying "LITTLE GREEN BAG" by George Baker Selection....Huge bass riff !!!
LOVED your reaction, this is such an immaculate song! Hope you guys do "Make Your Own Kind of Music" at some point, it's another one of Mama Cass' gems
Mama Cass' voice was angelic. Such a beautiful sound. I'm so glad you did this song! And may I also say, THANK YOU FOR NOT PAUSING THE SONGS TO COMMENT LIKE OTHER REACTORS DO!!! It totally ruins the vibe and makes me so mad when others pause.
I love that y’all are grooving to this. I think it’s under appreciated, but it’s a favorite of mine, along with CALIFORNIA DREAMING. Anyway, thank you for your reaction.
Mama Cass was so wonderful! You should listen to the video of her singing Leaving on a Jet Plane with John Denver. Two incredible voices together.
I Saw Her Again is another one you need to hit. Great song with some band drama behind it and a recording mistake that works so well they left it in.
This is one of my favorites of hers. I had this album in high school. Thanks so much for this today!
Great voices and honky-tonk piano. Actually better than I had remembered.
Wasn't my scene back as a kid... I do remember the big deal however when Cass died. And also I remember seeing them on the TV quite a bit back then 🎶👍
Sang this to my kids at night, when giving them their bottle. Sweet memories. My mom was a HUGE Mamma Cass fan, so lots of Mamas and the Papas in my house.
Monday, Monday sounds great coming out of a transistor radio or a car AM single speaker.
I ended my nightclub act with this song back in the 70’s in nyc. Lovely song. Audience loved it.
Yes more Mamas and Papas!
You should definitely hit Still In Love With You by Thin Lizzy, from Live and Dangerous. Their live stuff is on another planet compared to studio.
Criminally underrated band. That entire album should be done. One of the greatest live albums EVER!