* 1935 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Mamas & the Papas ) ( d. 2001 )

Three of the four members of The Mamas & the Papas met there.

He had also separated from his girlfriend of seven years, singer-artist Jill Gibson, later a member for a short time of The Mamas & the Papas, who had also co-written several songs with him.

Some mixed-gender vocal quartets include The Pied Pipers ; The Mamas & the Papas ; The Merry Macs ; and The Weavers ;.

* 1941 – Cass Elliot, American singer ( The Mamas & the Papas, The Mugwumps, and The Big 3 ) ( d. 1974 )

The couple returned to Los Angeles and quickly became part of a social group that included some of the most successful young people in the film industry, including Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty, Mia Farrow, Peter Sellers, Jacqueline Bisset, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Joanna Pettet, Laurence Harvey, Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda, older film stars like Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and Danny Kaye, musicians such as Jim Morrison and the Mamas & the Papas, and record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend Candice Bergen.

For example, " Monday, Monday " ( 1966 ) from the Mamas & the Papas, " Rainy Days and Mondays " ( 1971 ) from the Carpenters, " I Don't Like Mondays " ( 1979 ) from the Boomtown Rats, and " Manic Monday " ( 1986 ) from the Bangles.

In 1965 The Mamas & the Papas ' first single, lead member John Phillips ' " Go Where You Wanna Go ", failed to open the foursome's chart career.

" Bakshi was able to acquire the rights to an extensive soundtrack — including songs by Janis Joplin, The Doors, George Gershwin, The Mamas & the Papas, Herbie Hancock, Lou Reed, and Louis Prima — for under $ 1 million.

* Grainger Hines, Greenwood native and actor, once married to Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and The Papas.

The Ed Sullivan Show is especially known to the World War II and baby boomer generations for introducing acts and airing breakthrough performances by popular 1960s musicians such as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Supremes, The Beach Boys, The Jackson 5, The Rolling Stones, The Mamas & the Papas, The Lovin ' Spoonful, The Doors and Rosa Morena.

Latifah performed new arrangements of standards including " California Dreaming ", first made popular by 1960s icons The Mamas & the Papas.

After more than two years without new studio material, Beckley and Bunnell presented the group's new style with a cover of The Mamas & the Papas ' " California Dreamin '" in March, 1979.

* July 29 – " Mama " Cass Elliott, singer ( The Mamas & the Papas ), 32 ( heart attack )

* April 20 – The Mamas & the Papas ' John Phillips is sentenced to five years in jail after pleading guilty to drug possession charges.

* March 3-The Mamas & the Papas begin a reunion tour with a show in the New York club The Other End.

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On the success of " All or Nothing " they were set to tour America with the Lovin ' Spoonful and the Mamas & the Papas ; however, these plans had to be shelved by Don Arden after details of Ian McLagan's recent drug conviction were leaked.

Many future folk rock artists, including members of The Byrds, The Mamas & the Papas, and Buffalo Springfield, along with solo singers like Barry McGuire and Scott McKenzie, began their professional music careers in folk revival groups.

Future members of many folk rock acts, including The Byrds, the Jefferson Airplane, The Lovin ' Spoonful, The Mamas & the Papas, and Buffalo Springfield, all turned their backs on traditional folk music during 1964 and 1965 as a direct result of the influence of The Beatles and the other British Invasion bands.

Other notable bands and solo artists who were blurring the boundaries between folk and rock in the early 1960s, include Judy Henske, Richard and Mimi Fariña, and The Mugwumps, the latter of which were a New York band featuring future members of The Lovin ' Spoonful and The Mamas & the Papas.

In particular, The Byrds ' influence can be discerned in mid-1960s recordings by acts such as The Turtles, Simon & Garfunkel, The Lovin ' Spoonful, Barry McGuire, The Mamas & the Papas, Jefferson Airplane, We Five, Love, and Sonny & Cher.

He then won in 1980 with the song " Solo noi ", and subsequently finished second in six editions: in 1984 with the song " Serenata " (" Serenade "), in 1987 with " Figli " (" Sons " or " Children "), in 1988 with " Emozioni " (" Emotions "), in 1989 with the song " Le mamme " (" The Mamas "), in 1990 with Ray Charles with the song " Gli amori " (" Loves ", but entitled " Good Love Gone Bad " in Charles ' version ) and in 2005 with Annalisa Minetti with the song " Come noi nessuno al mondo " (" No One Else in the World Like Us ").

He is also well known for the alto flute solo on the Mamas & Papas song California Dreamin ' recorded in 1965.

Most of their big R & B hits were recorded from 1952 to 1953 and written by guitarist Lowman " Pete " Pauling ; later cover versions of the band's songs hit the Top 40, including " Dedicated to the One I Love " ( The Shirelles, the Mamas & the Papas ), " Tell the Truth " ( Ray Charles ), and " Think " ( James Brown & The Famous Flames ).

In 1968, he signed with Minit Records and recorded his first solo album, Fly Me to the Moon, where he scored his first major hit with a cover of The Mamas & The Papas ' " California Dreamin '".

Other people Lyons has performed and recorded with include Donna Summer, The Mamas & the Papas, Lee Ann Womack, Rosanne Cash, Carrie Underwood, Emily Bindiger, Carolee Goodgold, Jim Barbaro, Margaret Dorn, The Bingo Boys, Gigi on the Beach, and the Ed Palemo Big Band.

( Blaine played drums on most of The Mamas and Papas albums, who also recorded for Dunhill Records, and many other pop-rock studio productions of the 60s.

Cass Elliot from The Mamas & the Papas recorded " Jesus was a Cross Maker " for her debut self-titled solo album for RCA in 1971.

Unlike previous studio-recorded albums, The Papas and The Mamas was recorded at the home of John and Michelle Phillips, although with the same production team as on previous albums.

The album featured cover songs primarily from the 1960s and 1970s, and specifically highlights the musical glory days of their parents ' California-based musical groups: The Mamas & the Papas and the Beach Boys.

Other artists including comedian, actor, and banjo player Steve Martin, Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, Timothy B. Schmit of The Eagles, pioneering folk-rock artist Gram Parsons, Stephen Stills and David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, The Beach Boys ' Al Jardine, Big Brother and the Holding Company founding member Peter Albin, Denny Doherty of The Mamas and the Papas, banjo master Tony Trischka, pop groups ABBA and The Bee Gees, Jefferson Airplane founding members Marty Balin and Paul Kantner, Buffalo Springfield founding member Richie Furay, Byrds co-founder Gene Clark, roots musician and master mandolin player David Grisman, singer-songwriters Tom Paxton, Harry Chapin, Jimmy Buffett, Tim Buckley, Steve Goodman ( composer of " The City Of New Orleans "), Steve Gillette, Michael Smith ( composer of " The Dutchman "), and Shawn Colvin, folk-rock group We Five co-founder Jerry Burgan, folk and rock musician Jerry Yester, and progressive jazz vocal group Manhattan Transfer among many others cite the Kingston Trio as a formative influence in their musical careers.

On March 20, 2012, the group appeared on QVC to promote their 2012 release Dedicated, a new studio album made up of covers of songs by both The Beach Boys and The Mamas and the Papas.

The song was covered by The Mamas & the Papas in the style of a ballad in 1967 on their album Deliver, and on a film soundtrack by Cliff Richard.

While working with Barry McGuire, Sloan created and played a guitar introduction as a hook to a new song by John Phillips entitled " California Dreamin '", and the same backing track was used for the hit version by Phillips ' group The Mamas & the Papas, which led to Sloan being a regular in their recording sessions.

In the Byzantine era churches and a monastery were built and the tradition of having a summer palace on the Bosphorus was begun by the Byzantines with their Ayios Mamas palace complex.

*" Candy " was sampled by Tupac Shakur on his song " All Bout U ", Will Smith on his song " Candy ", by Mariah Carey on her song " Loverboy ", by Eightball and MJG on " Jus like Candy ", and by The Black Eyed Peas on their songs " Like That " and " Ba Bump " from their album " Monkey Business ", By Master P Album " Mamas Bad Boy " for song " Eyes Of A Killer " and again for His Group Tru album " Tru to the Game " song " Candy ".

However, band manager / producer Lou Adler — who, ironically, had been one of the founders of the rock festival movement two years earlier, as a partner ( with Mamas & Papas lynchpin John Phillips ) in the Monterey Pop Festival, where Hendrix premiered in the U. S .— opposed it because the band was busy promoting their latest album, Clear.

* Team Mamas: Anne " Mama " Robinson and Evelyn " Mama " Kornegay were local residents of Kinston who hosted players during their stay in Kinston.

The Mamas & the Papas were forced into a reunion, years after their 1968 breakup, by the letter of their Dunhill Records contract, which required one more album to be completed-which became 1971's People Like Us.