The Mamas & the Papas discography

The Mamas & the Papas were a vocal group from Los Angeles, California that was active from 1966 to 1969. Their discography consists of a total of five albums and seventeen singles, six of which made the Billboard top ten, and sold close to 40 million records worldwide.[1]

The Mamas & the Papas discography
The Mamas and the Papas in 1967.
Studio albums5
Compilation albums11
Singles17

The Mamas and the Papas' recordings were released on Dunhill Records until 1967, when the company was sold and the label became ABC-Dunhill.[2] Around 1973, ABC-Dunhill discarded all multi-track session recordings and mono masters because they were deemed obsolete and too expensive to store.[3] The original recordings of The Mamas and the Papas, and of labelmates such as Three Dog Night, are therefore lost, and it has been necessary to create digital versions from the stereo album masters, often second- or third-generation tapes. This is why the sound quality of Mamas and Papas' reissues does not match the best from the 1960s. In 2012, Sundazed Records located a mono master of If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears in the UK and released it on 180-gram vinyl and a limited edition of 500 compact discs.[4]

The singles "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday" have both been certified as gold records by the RIAA.[5]

Albums

Studio albums

Year Album Catalog number (U.S.) U.S. Billboard 200[6] U.S. Cashbox UK[7] Certifications
1966 If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears Dunhill D 50006 (Mono)/DS 50006 (Stereo) 1 2 3 US: Platinum[8]
1966 The Mamas & the Papas Dunhill D 50010/DS 50010 4 5 24 US: Gold[9]
1967 The Mamas & The Papas Deliver Dunhill D 50014/DS 50014 2 1 4 US: Gold[10]
1968 The Papas & the Mamas Dunhill DS 50031 15 10
1971 People Like Us Dunhill DSX 50106 84 45

Live albums

Year Album Catalog number (U.S.) U.S. Billboard 200[6] U.S. Cashbox UK[7]
1970 Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival Dunhill DSX 50100

Charting compilations

Year Album Catalog number (U.S.) U.S. Billboard 200[6] U.S. Cashbox AUS[11] UK[7] Certifications
1967 The Best of the Mamas and the Papas: Farewell to the First Golden Era Dunhill D 50025/DS 50025 5 5 US: Gold[12]
1968 Golden Era Vol. 2 Dunhill DS 50038 53 41
1969 Hits of Gold Stateside 5007 7
1969 16 of Their Greatest Hits Dunhill DS 50064 61 72 13
1973 20 Golden Hits Dunhill DSX 50145 186 161
1977 The Best of the Mamas and the Papas Arcade ADEP 30 7
1982 The Best of the Mamas and the Papas MCA MCA 2 6019
1995 California Dreamin': The Very Best of the Mamas and the Papas Polygram 5239732 14
1997 California Dreamin': The Greatest Hits of the Mamas and the Papas Telstar TTVCD 2931 30
1998 Greatest Hits MCA Records MCAD-11740 123
2006 California Dreamin': The Best of the Mamas and the Papas Universal TV 9841715 21

Singles

Year Titles (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated. Some singles had the band's name misspelled as "The Mama's And The Papa's".
Catalog number (U.S. unless otherwise indicated) Chart positions Certification Album
U.S. Billboard[6] U.S. Cashbox[13] UK[7] AU
1965 "Go Where You Wanna Go"
B-side: "Somebody Groovy"
Dunhill 4018
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
"California Dreamin'"
B-side: "Somebody Groovy"
Dunhill 4020
4
4
23 (1966)
9 (1997)
87
US: Gold[14]
1966 "Monday, Monday"
B-side: "Got A Feelin"
Dunhill 4026
1
1
3
4
US: Gold[14]
"I Saw Her Again"
B-side: "Even If I Could"
Dunhill 4031
5
6
11
9
The Mamas and the Papas
"Look Through My Window"
B-side: "Once Was A Time I Thought" (from The Mamas and the Papas)
Dunhill 4050
24
14
67
Deliver
"Words of Love" /
Dunhill 4057
5
6
6
The Mamas and the Papas
"Dancing in the Street"
73
86
6
"Words of Love"
B-side: "I Can't Wait" (UK-only)
RCA Victor 1564
47
-
1967 "Dedicated to the One I Love"
B-side: "Free Advice"
Dunhill 4077
2
2
2
3
Deliver
"Creeque Alley"
B-side: "Did You Ever Want To Cry"
Dunhill 4083
5
5
9
4
"Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon)" / Dunhill 4099
20
15
20
The Papas & the Mamas
"Straight Shooter"
130
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
"Glad to Be Unhappy" / Dunhill 4107
26
23
55
Golden Era Vol. 2
"Hey Girl"
134
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
"Dancing Bear"
B-side: "John's Music Box" (from Deliver)
Dunhill 4113
51
36
The Mamas and the Papas
1968 "Safe in My Garden"
B-side: "Too Late"
Dunhill 4125
53
46
86
The Papas & the Mamas
"Dream a Little Dream of Me"
B-side: "Midnight Voyage"
Peaked at No. 2 US Adult Contemporary
Dunhill 4145
12
10
11
1
"For the Love of Ivy"
B-side: "Strange Young Girls" (from The Mamas and the Papas)
Dunhill 4150
81
59
"Do You Wanna Dance"
B-side: "My Girl" (from Deliver)
Dunhill 4171
76
43
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
1972 "Step Out"
B-side: "Shooting Star"
Peaked at No. 25 US Adult Contemporary
Dunhill 4301
81
People Like Us

See also

References

  1. "The Mamas and the Papas", Last.fm. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  2. "Bobby [Roberts] and Lou [Adler], some time earlier, had come to us and begged us to give them a two-year extension on our contract...based on that we agreed to the extension, and we woke up two days later to read in the trades that Dunhill had been sold. Maybe for business reasons, whatever, we could not be told. At any rate we were sold, and it was a real nasty piece of business. Bobby, Lou, and Jay [Lasker] picked up a million apiece – we got nothing. We would one day look back and see that it was the beginning of the end for our recording, really. ABC did not understand us at all". Michelle Phillips, California Dreamin' , pp. 128–129.
  3. "ABC-Paramount Records Story". Bsnpubs.com. Retrieved 2011-09-10.
  4. "The Mamas and the Papas: If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears". Sundazed.com. Retrieved on 15 April 2012.
  5. RIAA website Gold & Platinum retrieved 22 July 2016
  6. The Mamas and the Papas Chart Positions, Allmusic. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  7. Official Charts Company Archive. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  8. "American album certifications – The Mamas and the Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved July 22, 2016. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  9. "American album certifications – The Mamas and the Papas – The Mamas and the Papas". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved July 22, 2016. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  10. "American album certifications – The Mamas and the Papas – The Mamas & The Papas Deliver". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved July 22, 2016. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  11. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 190. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  12. "American album certifications – The Mamas and the Papas – Farewell to the First Golden Era". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved July 22, 2016. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  13. "Cash Box Top Singles". cashboxmagazine.com. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  14. "Gold & Platinum - RIAA". RIAA. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
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