Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,612
edits
No edit summary |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) m (added link markup) |
||
(11 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{creator}}
[[File:Mamas and Papas 1967.JPG|thumb|350px|The Mamas and the Papas in 1967. From left to right: Cass Elliot, Michelle Phillips, Denny Doherty, and John Phillips.]]
'''The Mamas and the Papas''' was a - no, ''the'' - 1960s folk-pop band from Southern California. What made them stand out at first was that, in an age of girl groups and boy bands, they had a mixed-gender lineup: Cass Elliot, Michelle Phillips, John Phillips, and Denny Doherty, backed by session musicians. Then people heard their music, and they didn't need a gimmick to stand out.
They are the [[Trope Codifier]] for '60s folk-pop. Even in the early 2020s, people still remember "
They played the Monterey Pop Festival, cementing them as one of the musical voices of the Summer of Love. John Phillips co-produced ''[[Monterey Pop]]'', the movie of the festival, setting the example of filming music festivals that would be followed at [[Woodstock]] and Altamont.
In the early 1980s, John Phillips and Denny Doherty spearheaded an attempt at a revival, with Phillips' daughter [[Mackenzie Phillips]] and Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane of the contemporary band "Spanky and Our Gang" joining them to form "The New Mamas and the Papas". This new incarnation of the group toured and released several live albums while undergoing multiple line-up changes, until it finally disbanded in 2000. Despite lasting much longer than its predecessor, the new band never achieved a fraction of its success or influence.
Line 21:
{{creatortropes}}
* [[Band of Relatives]]: John and Michelle Phillips were husband and wife. The initial incarnation of its successor had John and daughter Mackenzie.
* [[Covered Up]]: The Mamas and the Papas are examples of both sides of this trope.
** Their version of "Dedicated to the One I Love" is much better known than the earlier version released by [[The Shirelles]]. Similarly, their cover of "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (in which Cass Elliot did her own whistling) charted much higher than the 1931 original by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. And almost nobody remembers Barry McGuire's recording of "California Dreamin'" (written by John and Michelle Phillips) despite the fact that it was released before The Mamas and the Papas's version of the song.
**
** During the revived Mamas and Papas' initial tour in the early 1980s, Mackenzie Phillips performed the theme to ''[[One Day At a Time]]''.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: According to her 1968 interview in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, Cass Elliot never liked being called "Mama Cass" (especially after she became a mother), but the nickname stuck because of her association with the group.
* [[Hating on Monday]]: "Monday Monday"
Line 30 ⟶ 31:
{{quote|"That has to be a mistake: nobody's that clever"|[[Paul McCartney]]}}
* [[Vocal Tag Team]]: All four of the original group had their turns to shine.
* [[Write What You Know]]/[[Write Who You Know]]: "Creeque Alley" is a concise history of the evolution of the folk-rock scene in the 1960s, namechecking not only the members of the Mamas and the Papas, but various other musicians and groups
{{reflist}}
Line 38 ⟶ 40:
[[Category:Musicians of the 1970s]]
[[Category:Pages Original to All The Tropes]]
[[Category:
[[Category:Musicians of the 1990s]]
[[Category:Musicians of the 2000s]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mamas and the Papas, The}}
|