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- Well this video covers TWO different artists/bands that have been requested by the community and here it is! Eddie Hazel's cover of California Dreamin' and The Mamas and the Papas version. Both were excellent in their own way but I probably would choose Eddie's version as the best one (that i've heard at least) and I want to hear more from both now!
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#californiadreamin #eddiehazel
Speaking of Barry McGuire,, A MUST HEAR Classic "Eve Of Destruction"..A huge hit when released,
Still as relevant today, as yesteryear....
Check out "Dedicated to the One I Love", "Look Through My Window", "Creeque Alley", "No Salt on Her Tail", and "Monday, Monday". The Wrecking Crew played the backing instruments.
Also “Dancing Bear” has beautiful vocal and instrumental arrangements.
That improvised flute solo by Bud Shank was recorded in one take only! The backup instruments were recorded by the Wrecking Crew.
Mamma Cass was very important as a mother to the 60ties movement . She hosted the party for the Beatles after the Ed Sullivan show she moved to the canyon in La and a big beautiful house full of love she would go down to the troubadour and meet someone new in town like Eric Clapton and bring him up to a party in the canyon at her house . Her friends in the canyon always around were Joni Mitchell, Crosby,stills,Nash and young , Jackson brown , Peter Tork of the monkees, Steve Martin the comedy guy who opened rock music shows . Everyone became tight friends and encouraged each other david geffin managed everyone Joni write her song free man in Paris about him the eagles got there first hit from Jackson Browne take it easy . So mama Cass was a place and time and the scene was the mamas and the papas and the canyon was the centre . And as for the term Easy listening music that was radio talk for dead . This was not easy listening music it was revolution music in disguise so there would be air play . The code was Dylan’s in New York fighting the powerful with words and California is the place to go to find the flower childrean and get some love and spirituality. By the way great reacting L33 your my u tube play list my go too guy . And just one more thing here and there music was never really broken down into categories musicians hated that categories are for the business of music not for the connoisseur we just use to say FM which means fusion a sophisticated combination of sound and fury , or AM which meant in the sixties Motown Stax country music or Columbia
Columbia records hits the charts . FM the place to find a great DJ with a new sound .
You might recognize Mama Cass from the Monterey Pop concert video in the audience looking at Janis Joplin with awe.
Mamas & Pappas are just such a good sound. Recommend "Twelve Thirty", inspired by Laurel Canyon.
What a treat .. I've never heard the Eddie Hazel version. Cass Elliot of Mamas and Papas had a beautiful sweet voice, sadly died of a heart attack at age 32. :(
Me either, but it was pretty good. Not as good as the Papas though.
The Mamas and Papas had an incredible sound that put them "at the top" for about three years in the mid to late '60's. This was their first big hit and was followed by about 8-10 more. Creeque Alley tells much of their backstory and calls out other hitmakers. Their Greatest Hits album is great.
Another great Canadian singer! Denny Doherty from good ol’ Halifax, Nova Scotia❤!!
I remember loving this song as a 60's California kid. ❤😊
For the Mama's and the Papa's, it's got to be "Monday Monday". But I'd also recommend Cass Elliot's version of "Dream a Little Dream of Me".
Cass Elliot's "Dream a Little Dream of Me" is one of the touchstone songs of my life; to this day when I hear her studio version it takes me right back to sitting on my parent's patio with my AM transistor radio jammed up to my ear waiting for this song to come up on the top 40.
I agree. They had so many good songs, but the reactors don't go there...
Wont argue with you, but for me it is California Dreamin.
Dude is right! Do Monday Monday 🙏 please
So as a child of the '60's and '70's (born in 1959) Mamas and Papas version is sacred to me. The harmonies and the mood were so good; I felt like the guy singin' the song...stuck in NYC and wishing I was on the other coast where the sun would certainly be shining was my truth, too. Mamas and Papas had a bunch of hits. "I Saw Her Again Last Night", "Creque Alley", "Monday, Monday", and several others. The group dynamics proved to be their undoing. Affairs and broken hearts doomed the band after only 2 or 3 years. It's tough to be young.
You MUST listen to Creeque Alley from the Mamas and the Papas. It will explain a lot
Makes me homesick for California every time. The harmonies go right to your soul.
Eddie is the lead singer. Dawn and Lynn are background singers who started with Sly and THE FAMILY STONE together before joining P-FUNK. The are formerly known as "THE BRIDES OF FUNKENSTEIN" "Mudbone" Cooper and "Peanut" Johnson also sang backup with BOOTSY. Here is the GENIUS of George Clinton. Every member of the band Parliament( Soul, R&B)-Funkadelic( Hard Rock) also were solo artist. Bassist Bootsy Collins (Bootsy's RubberBand) Drummer Jerome Brailey (Mutiny) "HORNY HORNS" Members Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker were members of James Browns band "The Famous Flames before joining P-FUNK with brothers Bootsy and Phelps "Catfish" Collins who plays numerous instruments and sings. Eddie Hazel and KINGDOM COME, Lead Parliament singer Glenn Goins recorded as QUASAR with his brother. Keyboardist Bernie Worrell recorded 3 solo albums and quite possibly collaborated in writing the music for the entire "FUNK MOB EMPIRE". Other female backup singers Debbie Thomas and Jeanette Washington recorded under PARLET. "FUZZY HASKINS, Junie Morrison, Jimmy G and Tha Tackheads were all members of the same band. Guitarist and front man Gary Shider also sang and wrote and performed for everyone I just mentioned. Along with bassist Rodney Curtis, Trombone Greg Boyer, Trumpet Bennie Cowan Sax Greg Thomas, Lead Guitarist Michael "KID FUNKADELIC" Hampton who replaced and was mentored by Eddie Hazel. Dwayne "BlackByrd" McKnight who many say took all the stag antics of Jimi Hendrix to the next level !!! See his solo of "BIRDIE" in Houston Tex. with THE BRIDES of Funkenstein.
A perfect song and recording, and why not? Beautiful harmonies and the wrecking crew backing them up.
It was so cool to see Michelle Phillips appear in a Star Trek TNG episode (1st season, ep 23 "We'll Always have Paris")
I had to think twice about listening to this because it will be in my head for days. All I have to do is think "all the leaves are brown" and it will play on a loop, hoping the second version will stop it...
Mama Cass was a big girl. Rode a Harley....held many epic sleepovers....She WAS the 60's baby.
Mamas and The Papas version is imprinted in our souls of course but I had never heard solo Eddie Hazel, wow, he's good, thanks for the discovery!
Growing up in the San Fernando Valley in the 1960s, hearing this song on the radio while driving over Laurel Canyon to LA. The M&P lived around the Canyon somewhere I used to think. Thanks for the memories.
The Wrecking Crew again with Hal Blaine on drums, it's fun to read about the sessions.
John Phillips is on guitar in the video. He was the primary songwriter and therefore band leader. His wife was at the far left. This group had a lot of personal intrigue, a precursor to Fleetwood Mac in that regard. John Phillips is also known for his role in organizing the first big rock festival in America, the Monterey Pop Festival (1967). The festival was noted for many things, the performance by THE WHO, The Doors, The Byrds and many more. The festival was, for many, the introduction of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to an American audience.
Also the Father of McKenzie Phillips. According to her they had an "odd" relationship and I believe he admitted to it.
@@kenlawless7247 If by odd you mean he put his P in her V, I understand that's factual.
The Mamas and Papas hated lip syncing. In one live performance Michelle, the blonde, eats a banana on stage in protest…so funny😎
That was on Ed Sulivan. This was The Hollywood Palace.
@@visaman I know, I was adding to his funny comment about no mic😎
The California that they are dreaming of is the California of the sixties and seventies which I was fortunate enough to experience on a number of visits always overstaying my visa , what it’s like now I have no idea but I retain great memories
It's all fucked up with homeless people and drug addicts, unfortunately, and like many other west coast cities inclunding mine - Vancouver, BC Canada
I've never heard this cover! Freakin mind blowing!!! Love P Funk. I saw Stanley Clarke Live at The Apollo in 79. He's unbelievable. 😮 I love the Mamas and Papas harmonies. There is a Simon & Garfunkle song "Hazy Shade Of Winter". It was covered by The Bangles and they nailed it.
"I Saw Her Again" is another great tune by the Mamas and the Papas.
Yep John wrote it about the affair between his wife Michelle and Denny … 😂
A song that will be heard still decades from now!
Great pickup on the ' Wrecking Crew '.
Yes they were part of this recording.
Glad you enjoyed my request. Eddy also does a Killer cover of The Beatles I Want You/She’s So Heavy
I love when an artist covers a song innovatively. It must feel great for a songwriter to hear their song being interpreted and re-shared with the listening public. I remember California Dreamin' as if it were yesterday. My teacher played it for our classroom, and she's the coolest, even to this day. (Fun fact: A few years later, she also became Jay-Z's favorite teacher. I'm not surprised; she influenced us all!) ❤
really now?? that is amazing. what a teacher. i remember the ones still that made an impact on me... mr.happel. mrs. farris. mrs. rowland. i still remember. :) i had an art teacher in HS that was awesome too. Teachers are so important.
@L33Reacts yes, a good teacher who inspires their students is priceless! In my case, we're talking about 1965. She was so young, just 24-25 at the time. We're all still in touch with her, too. Of course, I was her "favorite " student, lolol! 😅🤣😂 I love that you can list your special teachers. They must be so proud of you 👏.
I had never heard the Hazel version...thanks, I really enjoyed it.
I saw the Mamas & the Papas in concert back in the day. They sounded just as good live as on LP. Still a special memory for me. The version by Eddie is such a groove!
Eddy Hazel is a great guitar player. Maggot Brain is hypnotic and has been covered by other greats
For another Mamas & Papas tune check out "I Saw Her Again". Great harmonies and rythms!
Just to blow your mind, listen to Cass Elliot several years before Mamas & Papas, singing with The Big Three, "Wild Women". What an amazing voice and talent.
California Dreamin is the way to go...
I read that Cass heard the lyric as 'I pretend to pray' and sang it that way. He wrote 'I began to pray'. I believe it was an interview with Cass..
Anyone else hear that?
It was the other way around Michelle helped write it and told Cass it was I pretend to pray not I began to pray.
@@cspaikido thanks!
Great reaction, Lee! I do love the Mamas & the Papas version, but Eddie's version is smoking!
Thank you Phil! Much appreciated. I enjoyed both immensely. Two different versions completely but still great.
When released there was nothing like this MUST HEAR classic track,, Billy Thorpe "Children Of The Sun" 🔥🌞🔥
Wow - great pairing - thanks for introducing me to Eddie Hazel. I'll get a CD (I still buy CDs). Still love Mamas and the Papas.
Plenty more from the Mamas and Papas to explore. The helped shape the "sound of the sixties".
Lou Adler was their producer, and he basically right then and there signed them after hearing them from a background singing session. He asked John Phillips how they all found each other , and started the group. John wrote Creeque Alley which was a song that told the story of the Greenwhich Village folk scene where they all met, were friends with everyone that would eventually become the Loving Spoonful, Barry Maguire, The Byrds, and everyone that spewed forth. Watch the Behind The Music video on them, very interesting insight to how folk turned rock.
It's all Cass Elliot on vocals for me as she kills it!!
AS a musician you must listen to Creeque Alley, which is both kind of an autobiography of the band but also how a bunch of folk musicians became various folk rock bands (after seeing the boys on the Ed Sullivan Show) after 1964. The Mamas and Papas were also key organisers of the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, especially John and Michelle...
There's a haunting, heavy feel to this song even with the bright harmonies.
Michelle Phillips is very... striking i guess to put it nicely. I have to admit i watch this video regularly due to my crush on her. She has some famous daughters if im not mistaken. There was a 90s group called Wilson-Phillips featuring at least one (pretty) daughter of hers and another acted in some dark teen movies.
Wilson, as in Brian Wilson.
Not usually one for covers of classic hits, too many cant pull it off. Never heard of Eddie Hazel, or this cover, BUT MAN, was that guitar work ever appealing! Reminded me a bit of Gary Clark, with a smoother style more to my tastes. His style and choices were on point the whole time. Great vocals too. Really enjoyed that! Going on the playlist, for sure. What a great and surprising way to cover the Mama's and the Papas.
Love this Song!!❤ Great Pick(original) California dreaming as this channel is on fire🔥🔥🔥
You’ve heard Eddie Hazel when you listened to Maggot Brain.
i sure did.... i'll never forget him after that track lol
I've always loved this song and also that gorgeous shade of sixties green at the back of the live performance. That style of singing was delightfully different than today don't you think Lee ? 🤡
Enjoyed the cover. Thanks.
Bernie Worrell also played with Talking Heads.
The Wrecking Crew track for the song was originally done for Barry McGuire's version, which had The Mamas & Papas on backing vocals. They had just arrived in LA and were broke, so producer Lou Adler hired them to do the backing vocals. However, having heard the band's incredible harmonies, Adler cut new vocal tracks for the song overtop of the McGuire version. If you listen closely with headphones to the left channel at the beginning of the song, you can hear McGuire's distinctively raspy voice in the distance singing "All the leaves".
DUDE, my man, you GOTTA do the medley from Monterrey !!!!
I’m sure someone else has chimed in, but Bernie Worrell is a legendary figure that is one of the unsung innovators of American music in the second half of the 20th Century. As instrumental to the parliament/funkadelic sound as anyone else in the collective. Played with the Talking Heads during the Stop Making Sense era. Played in Bill Laswell’s Praxis thing with Buckethead, Brain and various turntablists. Also Bill Laswell Material with Buckethead, Brain and a bunch of world musicians. And Les Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains.
One of my musical heroes.
Stopped into a Church
I passed along the way...
Well I got down on my knees and I pretend to pray....
Strange, but the instrumental part in the Eddie Hazel version reminds me a bit of All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix.
now that you mention it... i hear it lol
Bernie also played with Talking Heads on Stop Making Sense tour and movie.
The Mamas and Papas have been called the West Coast version of Simon & Garfunkel.
John Phillips organized the Monterey Pop Festival n those ending images were from that
They had a good string of hits but Creeque Alley is a timeline history story of how they all got together. Great song “no one’s gettin’ fat ‘sept Mama Cas”
Amazing harmonies
I love this song whit mamas and papas
A "deep" cut of the Mama's and Papa's is a cover of the Beatles "I Call Your Name", and is one of the rare examples, in my opinion, of the cover being better than the original (with respect to the Beatles). Love how they're able to raise the energy level in the 2nd half to a very satisfying conclusion. They made the song their own.
The Mamas and the Papas get mentioned in a song by Peter Paul and Mary called I Dig Rock and Roll Music. Check it out!
ill keep it in mind! thank you!
Creeque Alley is my choice for another Mamas & Papas track. Kind of the storied saga of the formation of the group.
No-one seems to have recommended Safe in My Garden, so I'll add that to the long list.
The Mamas & Papa’s version is played continuously somewhere in the world. The second it stops being played continuously, California will fall off into the ocean.
Make my funk the P. Funk, cause I wants to get funked up.
Mamas & Papas - Monday, Monday
Mamas & Papas - I Saw Her Again Last Night
Mamas & Papas - Dedicated To The One I Love
(Shirelles version kicks ass too)
Mamas & Papas - Creeque Alley
Mamas & Papas - Go Where You Wanna Go
Few bands performed live on the variety shows.
Love the version by Jose Feliciano! And check out his cover of The Doors song Light My Fire as well
Michelle Phillips was a fox. But Mama Cass had the voice. Otherworldly talent.
Those gorgeous harmonies will be with me forever, it is sad that their own relationships were not so harmonious, hippies eh? My top tune from Mama Cass is "Dream a Little Dream of Me".
"California Dreaming" by The Mama
s & The Papas features a very beautiful and memorable melody as phenomenally gorgeous harmonies.
Eddie Hazel's version, OTOH, basically ignores the melody as John Phillips wrote it, and substitutes funky guitar parts that, like the vocals do not reflect the melody of the song as it was written and conceived.
If the only version of this song was the one by Eddie Hazel, it would never have been a hit, never have had a cultural impact, would never have received significant airplay, and would be completely forgotten, except perhaps by a small band of Eddie Hazel fans.
He is not an artist that I've been conscious of at all until just now, and I don't believe that I will deliberately be listening to his music in the future.
Absolutely worth your time to dig into. Mamas and Papas were sooo good. Another Laurel Canyon story. Which leads to the next song you should check out: 12:30 Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon. Harmonies are out of this world and back in the day, Michelle Phillips was everyone’s ultimate perfect hippie chick! Blond, blue eyes and just gorgeous.
OK. One more thing. Eddie Hazel. Someone be doing some guitar thang pickin’ on that version! Not bad at all. Got a Manfred Mann vibe going on.
The young blond is Michelle. She is the only surviving member and is in her 80s
the twist on the last verse; "If I didn't tell her, I could leave today".
Just love both that style of vocals and that backing colour in the sixties! Where's it gone Lee ? 🌈🤡
Mama Michelle Phillips was such a cutie, heck she still is.
the wrecking crew on the instruments
Great song
Bootsy Collins has been on a lot of stuff. The weirdest (but still pretty cool) is "Groove is in the Heart" by Delight.
The Mamas & Papas are great. Don't know about the other artist.
Funkedelic!
For a great "winter song" written and performed by a *real* New York City group, try "A Hazy Shade of Winter" by Simon and Garfunkel. Maybe pair it with the fine cover by the Bangles.
When you saw Janis Joplin perform "Ball and Chain" live at the Monterey Pop Festival, that was 'Mama' Cass Elliot in the audience, totally mind-blown, going "OH WOW !!" ~~A genuine first-time reaction caught on film, to a musician moving heaven and earth to express herself ~~~
OK, I love the Mammas and the Papas, they got a couple hits… but what’s really special is that they advocated for artists like Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.❤
Michelle Phillips became a soap star actress.
I’m not a huge fan of the female voice, but Mama Cass is at the top of the list of the ones I love 😊
Karen Carpenter is another - you should react to some of their stuff!
we actually have some carpenters coming soon! sometime this week probably.
I like the Mamas and Papas version. Not sure about the other.
video starts & Pikachu dies ..lol
Love both versions! Great song, also like Bobby Womack soulful rendition!
Monday Monday, 12:30, I Saw Her Again and Got A Feeling just to name a few. Most of their songs were about what was going on with the band, especially the turmoil.
I’ve heard stories about their dad and sister. Just terrible.
Papa John Philips and his daughter Mackenzie when she was a young teen and for several years thereafter. Pretty horrific iyam. All true, evidently. I read Mackenzie’s book.
@@L33Reacts John Phillips and his daughter Mckenzie from his first marriage. He got her on drugs at a very young age and it got sexual, sad and disgusting.
The Mamas and the Papas did a great cover of "Dream a Little Dream", and it's sometimes mislabeled a Mama Cass solo song. It's very sweet, though. Harry Nilsson let her stay in his London flat and she died of an apparent heart attack there. Keith Moon died in the same room four years later, and Nilsson sold it. July 29th is the 50th anniversary of Mama Cass' passing.
It was a Mama and the Papas song that Cass then went on to perform solo. So no mislabeling there; it just depends on which version you are hearing. In fact, the original 45 single from Dunhill Records splits the difference, crediting it as Mama Cass Elliot with The Mamas & The Papas.
In 1968 the obscure US band Calliope did a great heavy cover version of California Dreamin'. It appeared on the bands only album, "Steamed". Eddie Hazel's version is good with some awesome guitar, but Calliope's version is better in my opinion. The Mama's and the Papa's version is the definitive version.
This was a great forgotten album classic.
And to think Phillips didn't want Cass Elliott based on her looks...Her voice was the fourth piece of the puzzle...simply wouldn't be the same group if she wasn't there... everything aligned & she was meant to be .
I prefer the Mamas and Papas version, with the focus on the melody, singing and harmonies. Eddie Hazel's version emphasizes the instrumentals which sound like a completely different song.
nice to hear. I remember an old story I can't confirm that mama Cass couldn't hit all the high notes until one day when a wrench from a contractor fell and hit her in the head and from then on she could hit high notes.
You might want to take a look at The Wrecking Crew, the group of LA Studio musicians who played behind hundreds of hits, from Sinatra to the Monkees to the Phil Spector Wall of sound and the Beach Boys. The Mamas and the Papas ad nothing to do with the instrumental track here. Hal Blaine is an absolutely iconic drummer, pull up his Wiki entry, you won't believe it.
wrecking crew on the Momas and Papas, pretty sure
I was litening to the Eddie Hazel version, and I could identify all the talent on the track, and parts of it were even beautiful. But for me, ironically, when I compare it to the Mamas and the Papas version, it's longer with lots of artistry on display, but it seems like Eddie and company stretched it out and drained all the soul from it. JMO
Another great version is by Queen Latifa
Michelle is stunning.
Bootsy was off the hook on that one!
The second version is more about 'California Jamming' than 'California Dreaming'...