Not often seen footage of the Mamas & the Papas in motion on TV simply graced the web.
The psychedelic folk-pop group was one of many defining musical acts of the Nineteen Sixties hippie counterculture; band member John Phillips wrote the enduring “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” and was an organizer of the landmark Monterey Pop Pageant. Simply because the hippie motion’s famed Summer season of Love in San Francisco, the Mamas & the Papas made an look on The Ed Sullivan Present throughout the nation in New York—the identical venue that had launched the Beatles to fame in America.
On the June 11, 1967 episode of Sullivan’s present, the Mamas & the Papas sang “Dedicated To The One I Love,” a efficiency that has now premiered on Sullivan’s YouTube channel 58 years later. Shortened variations of the video have been posted on the web earlier than, however the full three-minute footage has not been launched on-line till now. Throughout the first 24 hours after the full-length clip’s debut on YouTube Monday at 8 p.m. ET, it tallied 70,000 views as followers rushed to see the efficiency in its uncut kind.
First made well-known by the Shirelles in 1959, “Dedicated To The One I Love” had its largest success as a Mamas & the Papas single. The group’s model of the tune, penned by Lowman Pauling and Ralph Bass, surpassed the Shirelles’ No. 3 chart peak to succeed in No. 2 on the Billboard Scorching 100. It was the primary Mamas & the Papas single to characteristic Michelle Phillips on lead vocals, and that success ensured it wouldn’t be the final.
Along with the core Mamas & the Papas members, the band’s recording of “Dedicated To The One I Love” additionally featured backing tracks by members of the legendary Wrecking Crew together with Hal Blaine, Larry Knechtel, Gary Coleman, Joe Osborn, and Tommy Tedesco. Many years later, Wilson Phillips, the vocal group that includes John and Michele’s daughter Chynna Phillips, included a model of “Dedicated To The One I Love” on their album Devoted, one among many canopy variations of the tune which have proliferated for the reason that Mamas & the Papas made it their very own.
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