Dreamin’’ and ‘Monday Monday’ were recorded with session musicians underpinning the four’s vigorous and contrapuntal chorale. After these each rose high in the US Top 10 in 1966, The Mamas and The Papas reached a global audience too. Further hits included ‘Dedicated To The One I Love’ and ‘Creeque Alley’. Personal traumas and a vexing run of comparative flops led ...
having to imitate their Brit counterparts in order to make the charts, although in the second half of the decade West Coast acts such as The Turtles and The Mamas & The Papas helped to redress the balance. By then, pop’s fun and carefree attributes were charting a parallel but distinct course from the outspoken, introspective and experimental ...
guitar playing, his nickname, Captain Fingers, says it all. Lee Mack Ritenour was born in Los Angeles, California. He played his first recording session with the Mamas & The Papas in 1968 and by the mid-Seventies was a much sought-after session guitarist. A major influence was jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. In 1976 Ritenour released his first solo ...
in 1966 was a swipe at seasonal humidity. Sebastian’s solo career embraced a 1976 US No. 1, ‘Welcome Back’. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | The Mamas & The Papas | Sixties | Rock ...
Camp. Trashy. Lightweight. Throwaway. Exploitative. Fraudulent. Europop has drawn all those insults and more, and remains, after 30 years, most popular among those with a love of kitsch. Nevertheless, the danceable pop of early 1970s mainland Europe has had an enormous influence on manufactured pop, as well as all house and disco-derived dance music. Throughout the ...
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