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2	[[caption-width-right:330:''"[[https://youtu.be/KOok1WzZbOY All the leaves are brown...]]"'' [[note]]From left to right: Denny Doherty, Michelle Phillips, John Phillips, Cass Elliot.[[/note]]]]
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4	->''"John and Mitchy were gettin' kind of itchy\
5	Just to leave the folk music behind\
6	[[Music/TheLovinSpoonful Zal]] and Denny workin' for a penny\
7	Tryin' to get a fish on the line\
8	In a coffee house [[Music/TheLovinSpoonful Sebastian]] sat\
9	And after every number they'd pass the hat\
10	[[Music/TheByrds McGuinn]] and [=McGuire=] just a-gettin' higher\
11	In L.A., you know where that's at\
12	And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass!"''
13	-->-- "'''Creeque Alley'''"
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15	The Mamas & the Papas were an American folk rock group from UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, California, which formed in 1965 and disbanded in 1968, with a brief reunion in 1971. The group was composed of John Phillips (1935–2001), Denny Doherty (1940–2007), Cass Elliot ''née'' Ellen Naomi Cohen (1941–1974), and Michelle Phillips, ''née'' Gilliam (b. 1944). Known for their soaring vocal harmonies, the group released five studio albums and seventeen singles, six of which made the ''Billboard'' Top 10, and have sold close to 40 million records worldwide.
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17	"Papa John" Philips – along with record producer Lou Adler and promoter Alan Pariser – also helped to organize the Film/MontereyPop Festival in 1967. This now-legendary festival provided important career boosts for such artists as Music/JimiHendrix, Music/TheWho, Music/RaviShankar, Music/JanisJoplin, and Music/OtisRedding. (The Mamas & the Papas wound up being the closing act for the festival when Music/TheBeachBoys, who were originally planned to close, were unable to attend.)
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19	Their song "California Dreamin'" was ranked #89 on ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='s=] 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, while their album ''If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears '' was ranked #112 on the magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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22	!!Studio albums by the Mamas & the Papas:
23	* ''If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears'' (1966)
24	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum The Mamas & the Papas]]'' (1966)
25	* ''Deliver'' (1967)
26	* ''The Papas & the Mamas'' (1968)
27	* ''People Like Us'' (1971)
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30	!!"California Tropin' on such a winter's day":
31	* BandOfRelatives: John and Michelle were husband and wife.
32	* DownerEnding: A lot of their post-breakup work.
33	* FatAndSkinny: Cass Elliot (fat) and Michelle Phillips (skinny). One of the few female examples of the trope.
34	* GenderEqualEnsemble: The group consisted of two men and two women.
35	* HatingOnMonday: "Monday, Monday"
36	--> ''Every other day, (every other day)\
37	Every other day of the week is fine, yeah\
38	But whenever Monday comes (But whenever Monday comes)\
39	You can find me crying all of the time''
40	* LocationSong: "California Dreaming'"
41	* LoveDodecahedron: Oooh, boy. Michelle and John Phillips were married when the band formed (and they had one child), then Michelle had affairs with both Doherty and [[Music/TheByrds Gene Clark]], as well as a relationship with record producer Russ Titelman. Then, years after both the band and the Phillips broke up, John allegedly had sexual relations with [[Creator/MackenziePhillips his daughter]].
42	* MutualEnvy: Referenced in "Creeque Alley":
43	--> ''Zally said "Denny, you know there aren't many\
44	Who can sing a song the way that you do, let's go south"\
45	Denny said "Zally, golly, don't you think that I wish\
46	I could play guitar like you''
47	* NonAppearingTitle: "Creeque Alley".
48	* RockStarSong: "Creeque Alley" is a musical memoir of the band's formation, struggle for success, and eventual commercial breakthrough.[[note]]The title references Creque's (pronounced "Creaky's") Alley, a waterfront district on St. Thomas in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStatesVirginIslands that housed a nightclub where John and Michelle Phillips performed with the New Journeymen in the early '60s.[[/note]]
49	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: When John ousted Michelle from the group in 1966 (as punishment for her having an affair with Music/TheByrds' Gene Clark), Jill Gibson was brought in as a replacement. Like Michelle, Jill was a willowy blonde who sang in a soprano register, and she contributed vocals to a number of tracks on the group's self-titled second album before John decided the chemistry wasn't right and Michelle was brought back into the fold.
50	* UrbanLegend: No, Cass didn't die by choking on a ham sandwich.[[note]] She died of a heart attack, in her sleep. [[/note]] She did, however, die in the same room that [[Music/TheWho Keith Moon]] later died in.[[note]] In an apartment in the London district of Mayfair; both of them died at the age of 32. [[/note]]

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