@@davidknight5348 Thanks for sharing my views David. I can assure you, that those genuinely nostalgic years, won't be coming back, at least not before a major reshuffling of the cards, (i.e. www3, etc)
Been dealing with a very rough past few days / weeks, will always be thankful to you mamas & papas for bringing me this sense of peace. Forever grateful.
i was 19 years old and my next door neighbor in QC who was the most beautiful girl i ever saw was singing with her group “ the mieklos” an all girl quartet with this song “California Dreaming” and it mesmerized me!!I would open all our windows to heAR every word of the song whenever they practiced. She is now my wife, have 2 daughters 3 grandsons and I now live in California with her !!I am now 72 years old! How about that for fulfilling the California Dream!!
@@RackwitzG its pretty much fact that the more gifted singer you are the less of a song writer you are. The greatest song writers are those who had to make their vocals work , and i doing so are more gifted creatively speaking. Listen to Poco "trying" if you like harmonys a beaitiful song. Find the studio version
Yeah great 👍 memories It reminds me of landing in Seattle Washington after 9 months in Vietnam and heading to my next duty station at Fort Ord California I was definitely California Dreaming😍🙂😎
Ngl I just added this song to a playlist I have called “The end of the world.” Its not a long one and its an odd assortment but it has this, my way by frank sinatra, hotel california by the eagles, and its the end of the world as we know it by REM. They all have a weird feeling to them like I could listen to it on the last day of earth and be content.
@@bentrod3405 Have you heard ''In The Year 2525"? Very apocalyptic and creepy. But it is just music theatrics as even though some of it has come to be true such as "picking your son and daughter from the bottom of a glass tube,'' it isn't a big deal. After all even author Jules Verne in the 1800s predicted space travel . Making the future look bleak and sensationalizing the human mentality for doom has been done for centuries. Have you seen the Sistine Chapel painting that Michaelangelo created "The Final Judgement"?
This song came out when I was in Vietnam. I came home to California wounded and disabled for life. But when I hear this wonderful song, I forget all the pain and hear only the beautiful music and California Dreamin'. It still makes me dream. Thanks forever, my friends. 😎
Played this at my sons funeral bc it was his favorite song growing up ! Always was my favorite too now it's more meaningful than ever ! Love you miss you Jeff ❤️
It's the actual album recording. See there is no microphones, drummer, 2nd and 3rd guitar, bass guitar, horn players, tambourine etc...and they did lay down either 6 or 8 vocal tracks for harmonies. That's how all music videos were made back then. If you see electric guitars, look to see if there are cords plugged into it. If there isn't, that's you're indicator that they aren't playing. It shocked me when I was told about this, but it's just how they did it. And also in the 60s, there was a group of studio musicians that you can see in the documentary called the wrecking crew that recorded almost all band that had multiple singers music for them. You can watch them and Mama's and Papa's recording together. On this song too I believe. It's a really good thing to watch . They made hundreds , maybe thousands of if songs for so many music groups.
@@jeffniznick9280 well sir...lol. it's a shame too. She did have a really pretty face, but she was SO bothered by being so big. I mean, they had songs that flat out called her fat and she had to sing it in front of people.
@@jeffreymcclellan1717 It’s why I put “lol” at the end. It was just a joke, as I’ve always found her voice to be beautiful. Then of course, we saw the opposite in Karen Carpenter, who always thought she was fat so became an anorexic which killed her. Another beautiful voice lost too soon.
as a young child, i sang this is choir with two of my closest friends at the time but whenever we were outside of an official practice we would change california to cauliflower, one of them moved away from england to denmark several years ago and we completely lost contact, the other lives at peace in the skies now, this was the last song we ever sung together and never fails to bring me to tears
Harmonies are so hard to do. It's like you have to focus real hard on your particular harmony and not get distracted by the person next to you. I imagine being in a choir would help.
I'm from the UK, never been to the USA. But the themes of missing a place that is so dear to you and feeling homesick is such an universal feeling. Absolute classic.
I always liked how you (as in I) can be nostalgic for and feel the life from the 60s even if it was decades before your birth. The 80s, too. The nuance and understand as to why they were super important decades in regards to popular culture is just so obvious.
The song was written in 1963 by the lead singers of The Mamas & the Papas, John and Michelle Phillips. Two years later in 1965, the song was first sung by The Mamas & the Papas in concert and became world famous. The vocals and flute are unparalleled there. The song California Dreamin' tells the story of how John and Michelle felt while away from their beloved California. It describes the actual events of the few days before, including a visit to a church on a walk on a winter afternoon. The church that is mentioned in the second verse is St. Patrick's Cathedral. They had indeed been in it the day before.
Denny Doherty was the lead singer. Michelle was the only one from Southern California and she always spoke how she missed it. At the time they wrote the song, they were at a hotel in New york and it was snowing and depressive.
Yeah and by all accounts Michelle was getting banged out by the lead vocalist Denny while married to John which eventually led to the group disbanding. Although Cass Elliot would go on to have a successful solo career and die of heart failure a few years after. This was my mom's generation/music 🎶 as I am a solid 80s baby born and prefer 80s music over 60s 70s music which I can't relate to...my mom liked the mommas and the Pappas. I told her I liked Doris Days Dream a little dream better ( my grandmothers generation)than the Mommas and the Pappas though 😂
The opening intro of the guitar is one of the most recognisable in pop history then the vocals come in must have heard this song a thousand times but it never disappoints
@@novalumania it sounds to me like maybe he has headphones on an old AV wire connection and maybe has the mono in the left speaker and stereo in the right speaker? I used to have an Atari game system with 8 bit music and you could unplug the mono wire from the TV and you would only hear the background part of the music. It was pretty cool.
@Mike Colin Bless you Mike. The music like the M & P's was the sound track of my youth. And as I age, I get so nostalgic for that bygone era. I was very fortunate to have lived during the decades of awakening, and rock and roll was the thumping motor that drove society forward. Cherish the memories, for one day you'll be looking back with tears in your eyes, and a song in your heart that defines who you are.
I'm Russian, born 1966, I think this song, like many others, is a human heritage. It will stay long time in a trend. Like House Of Rising Sun , like Garcia Marques, Hemingway, Remarque, Tolstoy, Kurosawa, Queen etc.
not forgetting another great Japanese director, Mizoguchi, much admired by Kurosawa. Sansho the Bailiff is even better than Seven Samurai, and is the peak of cinema, pipping the Russian Tarkovsky's Mirror/Zerkalo
@Saad Cheema False, the song is about wishing for a warmer world or simply a whole new landscape. California dreaming therefore means to fantasize about being free and free of all difficulties, and it became a common expression in the 1960s during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement.
my 71 year old grandma often plays this loud.. we gifted her speakers and had her youtube premium installed so she can enjoy music and see videos of her fav songs too.. pretty cool for her she said its like going back to her younger days:) this is her fav.
My 6th grade teacher had the school choir sing this song. It inspired me to fight to join choir the following year. This song has remained in my heart, but even more, his tutelage, starting with this one song, propelled me through my entire adult life - to teach all of the musical theory he managed to impart to a bunch of hormonal 6th grade dummies. I was able to remember and share it with my own kids. Thank you Mr. Clark Brody of Portland Public Schools!
I used to wish I was Mama Cass - her voice was so beautiful. I cried when she died. Such incredible talent. What a gift! And now I'm nearly 70 and my grandson is singing this song with his choir! I must introduce him to Dream a Little Dream of Me.
There is something special about this song, it has some kind of vibe to it, almost like it captures the whole essence of the 1960's even though it is only one song by one group. How can I say this, well, I was there. LOL
I was born in 94 and my parents were born in the 60s, they introduced me to this awesome style of music and the Hr pufnstuf movie which introduced me to Mama Cass, this song is so wonderful 💖
This song defined the California sound. A masterpiece of harmonic vocals and one of those songs that will live forever and ever. And Michelle was such a natural beauty.
my grandma was born in 1949 and plays this on a little radio in her kitchen! I've spent the past 2 days mostly at hers and walking around that old house hearing 60s music is so special to me. especially with all the memories my mum has told me about from the 70s and 80s as she grew up there with her siblings edit: my grandparents are moving soon but their house will always have a special place in my heart being as I went there a lot when I was younger, and because they've been living there since around 1971 and my mother + my aunts and uncle grew up there
+bag of cocaine Why not gift to your grandma a compact, lightweight, simple, easy on the eyes stereo but with little more oomph, like around 20 watts? Makes music sound in much more enjoyable way filling up the kitchen with more details in sound.
Not born in that era, never been to California, but listening to this song somehow feels so nostalgic. Picturing myself in a car entering California with grey skies and listening to this song.
Jay....I recall older cousins playing this. Been to California. I forgot to play it driving to Venice beach and Malibu 🙈🙈🤷♀️. Maybe next time... as I have cousins living in California. Thankfully ⛱. Stay well n stay safe wherever you are 👍👍😌😌🎶🎶
“Stepped into a church, I passed along the way. Well I got down on my knees and I pretend to pray…” Something about those lyrics always floored me! Love this song!
The lyric was not, pretend, it was “began”. It still is “began”. I can hear the “t” sound now as well (but it’s changed and I am not even close to being confused). Also, I truly Love Jesus … and encourage everyone who knew this song 🎧 and even this video to not let these ai clowns confuse you. Oh, and by the way … this was one of the songs that was a part of the long haired “Jesus Freak” hippie movement … and they weren’t pretending either (put that into your ai computer algorithm goog’s). For everyone else (human), it’s time to either get to the gospel of Jesus Christ or get back to Him, because the “strong delusion” is nearly upon us. 🙏🕊🙏
Amazing vocals convey a longing for warm sunny day. Being cold in a dark city directs souls to warm up in any church...whether they "pretend" or "began" to pray is irrevalent. Someone ELSE cared enough to provide a safe warm place temporarily...FREE...to them. Sadly money doesn't grow on trees. Live a life you can afford and don't drag others down.
The sound of Silence the OG Simon & Garfunkel & NIghts in White Satin. Gives the same vibes. They don't make music like this anymore. The 80s was the last time we had really good music there is a few hits here and there for the most part it's all crap.
@@upallnite3164 Agreed. I’d throw the 90s in there for grunge and alternative rock but once the new millennium began, music went completely downhill. I’d argue the golden age for music to be the 60s - 90s. But 60s stuff will always be better than music we have today, that’s for sure.
God, there’s just something so hauntingly beautiful, and almost ominous about that specific harmony from 0:16 to 0:22. I can’t even think of a way to describe the feeling it gives me.
This song possesses an element of finality to it. Like it’s a conclusion to a story that hasn’t been told yet. I love the feeling I get listening to it.
@@bambooprincess3495 I'm pretty sure the song is about getting stuck elsewhere and they just wanted to get back to LA, which inspired them to make this song.
This is such a strange harmonic sound. Almost like it's an echo of something that is no longer alive. There's a certain melancholy that permeates through it despite the upbeat tempo and vocals. It's almost ghostly. Then of course we have the wonderful harmony and harmonisation. Probably a song that will never disappear from the musical consciousness.
Listening to a song that existed before my father was born. Giving me nostalgia of times when I didn't even exist. God these old songs have something in them which we can't find in anything these days
This was one of my grandmas favorite songs she passed due to stage four cancer I called her mom so mom I love you so much and thank you for introducing me to good music while I was younger
All the leaves are brown... So like they just missed all the Autumn colours? Love this song but the lyrics make no sense. I went for a walk and missed any other shade than brown? Perhaps walk more.
I used to sing this while I did the dishes as a kid in cornfield country, Illinois, never imagining I would actually live and raise a family in southern California some day! Been here 20 years, still think I am dreamin! 😍
@@kro9036 google: California homeless crisis, California opiates epidemic, California unaffordable real estate, California high taxes, California land speculation, California exodus, California shrinking middle class
Kind of like many of us came back from a place like Vietnam which we wish did not exist and we try to forget. The song lifts my spirits but also recalls the many things of "Nam I wish to forget. Maybe we met somewhere in time?
I hear ya.....didn't really feel all that important catching the school bus.....want a time machine....go back and do a journal so I can remember all l've forgotten.
They look natural, simple clothing, no perfect noses, teeth or hairstyles. No dramatic posing or on the contrary- huge smiles. I like it, its nice to watch.
So agree. And Cass may not have the classic sexy body like Paris Hilton (who names their kid after a hotel?). but her beauty is evident and brilliant. Love you.
I remember as a African American kid during the time of the 60's there was so much turmoil and I didn't understand what was happening. The world was so scary. I recall the first time I heard this epic song on my grandmother's radio. It gave me such hope for the future! I thought the hippies were going to save the world! This song still lifts me up when I have had too much of the world's insanity!
fox inuasha yeah you may be correct... i seem to remember the word Hippie was invented by the media not by the Flower Children or whatever they were. I guess my point is, the way all that happened, it was really being dictated by the Media. The 'hippies' liked the attention so they accepted the name and the fame and the game... but when they did they lost whatever identity from within; if there were any real movements, they were hijacked by the media and rendered as you say, into more cogs.
Enjoy this vintage Spring music mix ruclips.net/video/A-iksA5NRao/видео.html 🌻
@Slinky indeed
Must be smoking to much
You should check out Angelina Jordan's cover and arrangement of this song and thank me later.
True stereo
Cheers.☀️Kalifornia Dreaming☀️ Godsy ☀️ Sun ☀️♥️☀️❤️☀️❤️☀️♥️.Take care.
I came here after watching Mr. Plankton, and this song always rings in my ears. Thank You
me too
Me too
Me too it reminded me of this song
Me too
Same, im unwell
Thank you, Mr. Plankton for reminding me of this beautiful song.
real
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Bom. California
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Thanks Mr. Plankton for bring me back to this beautiful song !!
I agree !!
Tambien vengo de Netflix, a buscar el ost de Mr Plankton
Same!
me too
Nado.. 😂
Mr.Plankton ( Korean series ) brougt me to listen to this song again n again. So touched !
real
Me too
Same same
X3 la eh escuchado toda mi vida pero ahora siento otro significado por el k drama
@@isavillalobos2868 Agree! So touched meaning
This is one of the greatest songs ever written by anyone, at any time.
Ikr
Facts.
Indeed.
@Steve G wow
Immortal song .. Probably the greatest ever.
This song makes me feel so weird, sad, nostalgic and happy at the same time, it’s confusing but I love it
Omg same
I swear I feel the same
Same! 🙋🏻♂️✌️
So does every song that is sung by band arcade fire.
We know exactly what you mean just lissening to the music
They have such a haunting, melancholy, but strangely comforting sound. My brain doesn't know what to do with this, but I like it.
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Never gets old...
Isso se chama "Nostalgia".
Again. I thought I was the only one who thought it was haunting
This is one of those songs that can flood your brain with so many nostalgic memories 🐞
The intensity in the lines, “Well I got down on my knees,” is amazing and makes me love this song more and more every time I hear it
I agree 100% it's ABSOLUTLY amazing
Think he was talking about Mackenzie? 😂😂😂
My favourite part🎵🎵
@@kyleharvey8900 😆 its sad
When you get down on your knees you should not PRETEND to 🙏!!!
I was 6 years old in 1965 and I recall the radios in Athens playing this divine tune. Glorious years, glorious tunes......
We're the same age and I remember having the same reaction in Manchester, UK, listening to this song on the radio. Fabulous memory.
@@davidknight5348 Thanks for sharing my views David. I can assure you, that those genuinely nostalgic years, won't be coming back, at least not before a major reshuffling of the cards, (i.e. www3, etc)
Me too Sonya
@@davidknight5348 that’s crazy sir, I love hearing people’s stories from back in the day thanks for sharing yours 👍👍
Nice
Seriously, the harmonies in their voices makes this easily one of the most outstanding rock songs, I can’t even…it is perfection.
Rock???)
@@johnwick6815 yes it’s folk rock but still falls under the umbrella of rock….
@@JF-su9mb they probably think rock is all fast double bass pedals metal thrashing mad
@@IrDaNoobKing Yeah rock started much more like this song but got harder and harder
Something tells me the band "the mamas and the papas" isn't rock💀
Been dealing with a very rough past few days / weeks, will always be thankful to you mamas & papas for bringing me this sense of peace.
Forever grateful.
Me too. This is my go-to music.
same here brightens the day :)
Hang in there- Best Wishes❤
It’s only about to get rougher
i was 19 years old and my next door neighbor in QC who was the most beautiful girl i ever saw was singing with her group “ the mieklos” an all girl quartet with this song “California Dreaming” and it mesmerized me!!I would open all our windows to heAR every word of the song whenever they practiced.
She is now my wife, have 2 daughters 3 grandsons and I now live in California with her !!I am now 72 years old!
How about that for fulfilling the California Dream!!
Thanks for sharing, cheers.
That's amazing mate!
I'm very happy for you. Ciao from Italy 🟢⚪️🔴
Is that true bc if it is then that’s insane
Beautiful story stay strong ❤️
Such a beautiful haunting tune. Outstanding harmonies.
Ita a really cold song. I get it, its a classic but i never liked it because it made me feel depressed as a child.
yeah fax it’s a fire song tho
To me vocal harmony is the best music.
@@RackwitzG its pretty much fact that the more gifted singer you are the less of a song writer you are. The greatest song writers are those who had to make their vocals work , and i doing so are more gifted creatively speaking. Listen to Poco "trying" if you like harmonys a beaitiful song. Find the studio version
It's the harmonies that kills it
Still as popular today as well 2022 so
For me
when Doherty sings "Well, i got down on my knees" its just beaultiful and lovely.
Such a great voice 🎵🎶🎵🎶🤘🏻
but the next verse is "and I pretend to pray" all my life I'vr heard "and I began to pray"! Weird. Still a great song!@@toxic_badasss9656
Always thought it was I began to pray…
“Got”
And that "YOU KNOW THE PREACHER LIKES THE COLD"
Brings back wonderful memories. 1967 hauling a sixteen wheeler semi across the Negev. My beautiful wife singing along in the cab. Miss you Sharon.
זה פשע מלחמה לא לאהוב את השיר הזה
@Mike53534 הבין אחי
This has to be right up there as one of the greatest songs of all time.
I was about to say the same thing.
deffo is at the top together with bohemian rhapsody we are the champions show must going on
Yes, and no
Your a gay
Yeah great 👍 memories It reminds me of landing in Seattle Washington after 9 months in Vietnam and heading to my next duty station at Fort Ord California I was definitely California Dreaming😍🙂😎
No argument , one of the best songs ever created and will always be
No
Nah
yep, and throw in BB's Good Vibrations
David Ricardo Would you prefer The Wiggles best jams
@@callofdutylova18 yes, by a long shot
Classics never go out of style. This song is definitely a classic.
the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
@@ramurida ye
Say what you will about John Phillips but he created a Masterpiece here.
He was a hardcore junkie who raped his own daughter and let jagger rape her too....don’t let pravda Bitch Slap u into Occupied Palestine
@@ramurida Ok go live in a cave
Pure talent. No autotune or showing body parts. What a time.
And lip syncing their live performances 😂
@@StormforceChannel yeah, lip syncing live performances is ridiculous. Feels like a rip off.
Pop a tit bitch. Why don’t think they’re not relevant
@@StormforceChannel It was the sixties, geez, eight tracks weren't even around yet. Your car has one speaker, in the dash, AM radio only
troletrain...
And no pussy grabbing treasonous loser either.
This ain't just nostalgia, it's an unfounded melancholy. Glad I found this song today.
this song has to power to give nostalgia even tho you never experienced anything in that nostalgic feeling
Ngl I just added this song to a playlist I have called “The end of the world.” Its not a long one and its an odd assortment but it has this, my way by frank sinatra, hotel california by the eagles, and its the end of the world as we know it by REM. They all have a weird feeling to them like I could listen to it on the last day of earth and be content.
@@bentrod3405listen to Marilyn Manson’s “running to the edge of the world” trust me you’ll add it to that playlist.
@@bentrod3405 Have you heard ''In The Year 2525"? Very apocalyptic and creepy. But it is just music theatrics as even though some of it has come to be true such as "picking your son and daughter from the bottom of a glass tube,'' it isn't a big deal. After all even author Jules Verne in the 1800s predicted space travel .
Making the future look bleak and sensationalizing the human mentality for doom has been done for centuries. Have you seen the Sistine Chapel painting that Michaelangelo created "The Final Judgement"?
This triggers a weird kind of nostalgia in me... nostalgia for a live i haven't lived.
Exactly, like I was born in 2006 but its somehow kinda nostalgic for some reason. hmm weird.
Hits the soul! ❤️🙏❤️
This was my late husband's song. He was shot dead on August 21, 1975. Shit I'm weeping
@@KateBates22zabu I’m so sorry :( I hope you’re doing well and I’m proud of you ❤️
@@hugeclockowner7949 thx it was hearing the song just took me back 40+ years. The mystery of music, love it. Not listening again today tho 😕:)
This song is etched in the hearts and minds of everyone who hears it, and it remains recognizable immediately.
Factsss
Forest Gump brought me here.
Yes. I didn’t know the name but heard it before and then in an advert. Finally someone told me what the name is.
I hear those first two plucks and I know what Im listening to.
as the moment the red buff got stolen
I loved this song from the drama Mr. Plankton ♥
Me too. OMG
I loved this song from the drama......
reall
This song came out when I was in Vietnam. I came home to California wounded and disabled for life. But when I hear this wonderful song, I forget all the pain and hear only the beautiful music and California Dreamin'. It still makes me dream. Thanks forever, my friends. 😎
@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn Thanks!!! And bless you! 😎
@@garybarr1045Thank you for your service!
From Canada
Wow... Just wow. Thank you for your service, i hope you get the respect and recognization you deserve, greetings from Sweden❤🇸🇪
@@Captain14_0 Thanks. 😎
Welcome Home Gary
Played this at my sons funeral bc it was his favorite song growing up ! Always was my favorite too now it's more meaningful than ever ! Love you miss you Jeff ❤️
May he rest in peace ma'am.
I am really sorry for your loss.
rest in peace jeff
Praying God comforts you. I'm so sorry for your loss.⚘💔😔
@@imwatchingyou616 thank u so much ❤️Hard first thanksgiving without him ;)
Michelle and Cass sound like 6 people harmonizing, not just 2.. Incredible.
It's the actual album recording. See there is no microphones, drummer, 2nd and 3rd guitar, bass guitar, horn players, tambourine etc...and they did lay down either 6 or 8 vocal tracks for harmonies. That's how all music videos were made back then. If you see electric guitars, look to see if there are cords plugged into it. If there isn't, that's you're indicator that they aren't playing. It shocked me when I was told about this, but it's just how they did it. And also in the 60s, there was a group of studio musicians that you can see in the documentary called the wrecking crew that recorded almost all band that had multiple singers music for them. You can watch them and Mama's and Papa's recording together. On this song too I believe. It's a really good thing to watch . They made hundreds , maybe thousands of if songs for so many music groups.
Cass IS five people so...
Lol
@@jeffniznick9280 well sir...lol. it's a shame too. She did have a really pretty face, but she was SO bothered by being so big. I mean, they had songs that flat out called her fat and she had to sing it in front of people.
@@jeffreymcclellan1717
It’s why I put “lol” at the end.
It was just a joke, as I’ve always found her voice to be beautiful.
Then of course, we saw the opposite in Karen Carpenter, who always thought she was fat so became an anorexic which killed her. Another beautiful voice lost too soon.
@@jeffniznick9280 Any woman would feel insecure next to Michelle to be fair 😅
I was 5 when this came out, and all the years later, I'm still listening.
✌️ Peace
as a young child, i sang this is choir with two of my closest friends at the time but whenever we were outside of an official practice we would change california to cauliflower, one of them moved away from england to denmark several years ago and we completely lost contact, the other lives at peace in the skies now, this was the last song we ever sung together and never fails to bring me to tears
love this story. keep on cauliflower dreamin!
I cry for you too
We used to sing this too in our primary school choir
Have you ever trying to contact with him? I wish you can find him.
And what makes you think we care?
The harmonies are off the charts. Absolutely haunting. Makes the hairs of my neck stand up.
Neil Wilson your commentary nails it!
Mama Cass Great Vocals does that
Yep .. Spot on me old mush! 👊
Harmonies are so hard to do. It's like you have to focus real hard on your particular harmony and not get distracted by the person next to you. I imagine being in a choir would help.
Yep, always loved Mama Cass' voice.
I'm from the UK, never been to the USA. But the themes of missing a place that is so dear to you and feeling homesick is such an universal feeling.
Absolute classic.
Well said
It is called melancholy and many musical artists and composers captured that feeling.
You are so right on about that. Always remember..... America loves you. Come see us some day. You are missing out ❤️ california
If you ever come to America you're welcome 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Nevermind california , new york is the place. Get over here!!!
I was born in 19 65.
Bhut I love this music the 60 ❤
Thank You so much ❤
This song is the personification of the 1960's! What a great sound... nostalgic tears falling 😢
Same...😢
And me also...
I always liked how you (as in I) can be nostalgic for and feel the life from the 60s even if it was decades before your birth. The 80s, too. The nuance and understand as to why they were super important decades in regards to popular culture is just so obvious.
Ditto.
❤😊❤!@@zoki-kj3ox
The song was written in 1963 by the lead singers of The Mamas & the Papas, John and Michelle Phillips. Two years later in 1965, the song was first sung by The Mamas & the Papas in concert and became world famous. The vocals and flute are unparalleled there. The song California Dreamin' tells the story of how John and Michelle felt while away from their beloved California. It describes the actual events of the few days before, including a visit to a church on a walk on a winter afternoon. The church that is mentioned in the second verse is St. Patrick's Cathedral. They had indeed been in it the day before.
🥰💞💞💞
Denny Doherty was the lead singer. Michelle was the only one from Southern California and she always spoke how she missed it. At the time they wrote the song, they were at a hotel in New york and it was snowing and depressive.
That was my wonderful years of young. Many wonderful groups that created a ERA that had not reached for others comb of groups
Thanks 🙏
Yeah and by all accounts Michelle was getting banged out by the lead vocalist Denny while married to John which eventually led to the group disbanding.
Although Cass Elliot would go on to have a successful solo career and die of heart failure a few years after.
This was my mom's generation/music 🎶 as I am a solid 80s baby born and prefer 80s music over 60s 70s music which I can't relate to...my mom liked the mommas and the Pappas.
I told her I liked Doris Days Dream a little dream better ( my grandmothers generation)than the Mommas and the Pappas though 😂
The opening intro of the guitar is one of the most recognisable in pop history then the vocals come in must have heard this song a thousand times but it never disappoints
Look at Diera city Centre by night Lovell
Как будто становление поп музыки Это шедевр!
@@ЕленаУльянова-у5мi.absolutely agree
❤
It’s been sampled for some pretty dope hip hop songs too
The chemistry and The way they the lines two times in a row is such a unique tune and style that i have never seen in any other song ever created
I got the Mamas in my left ear and the Papas in my right ear
Accurate
yeah they discovered that stereo thingy these days. teh beatles messed a lot with it, i love it. :D
my left ear is broken. i can confirm this statement. havnt enjoyed this song in month
edit: new headphones came and i am currently enjoying the song.
@@novalumania it sounds to me like maybe he has headphones on an old AV wire connection and maybe has the mono in the left speaker and stereo in the right speaker?
I used to have an Atari game system with 8 bit music and you could unplug the mono wire from the TV and you would only hear the background part of the music. It was pretty cool.
which is the best cover of this song?
Played at my 87 year old grandma's funeral. One of her favorite songs.
i hope she rests in peace.
Bless u
Ed Sullivan Show??
ion care
🕊️🕊️🕊️
They don't sing songs like these any more. Really missing the oldies. Thanks to youtube for keeping these treasures alive.
The California in this song is dead, there is no warmth to be found. There is no point in reminding people of something that doesn't exist anymore.
Sadly everything is auto tuned to fuck these days. Before my time, but I love this song.
@@HitPoint19 How does todays California compare to how it was 50 years ago?
I imagine there's too much to point out but what's the most outstanding change(
@Mike Colin Bless you Mike. The music like the M & P's was the sound track of my youth. And as I age, I get so nostalgic for that bygone era. I was very fortunate to have lived during the decades of awakening, and rock and roll was the thumping motor that drove society forward. Cherish the memories, for one day you'll be looking back with tears in your eyes, and a song in your heart that defines who you are.
Im still listening to this group durinh my own childhood during the 60"s ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'm Russian, born 1966, I think this song, like many others, is a human heritage. It will stay long time in a trend. Like House Of Rising Sun , like Garcia Marques, Hemingway, Remarque, Tolstoy, Kurosawa, Queen etc.
not forgetting another great Japanese director, Mizoguchi, much admired by Kurosawa. Sansho the Bailiff is even better than Seven Samurai, and is the peak of cinema, pipping the Russian Tarkovsky's Mirror/Zerkalo
@Saad Cheema, why?
@Saad Cheema False, the song is about wishing for a warmer world or simply a whole new landscape. California dreaming therefore means to fantasize about being free and free of all difficulties, and it became a common expression in the 1960s during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement.
@@mizofan You have good tast in movies my friend. Sancho the bailiff is excellent.
@Saad Cheema that has nothing to do with this song
my 71 year old grandma often plays this loud.. we gifted her speakers and had her youtube premium installed so she can enjoy music and see videos of her fav songs too.. pretty cool for her she said its like going back to her younger days:) this is her fav.
she really lived dude. love and respects to her, from me.💖🌸
@@Betul-xj6cq *is living
We were raised on all this great music
Great gift!!!
I love this comment. i'm a 70 year old man who TOTALLY identifies.
My 6th grade teacher had the school choir sing this song. It inspired me to fight to join choir the following year. This song has remained in my heart, but even more, his tutelage, starting with this one song, propelled me through my entire adult life - to teach all of the musical theory he managed to impart to a bunch of hormonal 6th grade dummies. I was able to remember and share it with my own kids. Thank you Mr. Clark Brody of Portland Public Schools!
Hello Michelle, How are you doing?
I sang this for my school choir as well! Oh the joy!
This song is very good as well
@@dean5220 hello handsome
Was the instructor like Hannibal lecter🤣🤣🤣
I am so old, I was a teen when this originally came out. I listen to it every autumn…. Never tire of it!
I used to wish I was Mama Cass - her voice was so beautiful. I cried when she died. Such incredible talent. What a gift! And now I'm nearly 70 and my grandson is singing this song with his choir! I must introduce him to Dream a Little Dream of Me.
Please do!!
Very beautiful song
To think this was made in 1931 how time fly,s Doris day also Did a beautiful version of this.
yes its sad she died too young..
wholesome
There is something special about this song, it has some kind of vibe to it, almost like it captures the whole essence of the 1960's even though it is only one song by one group. How can I say this, well, I was there. LOL
I was born in 94 and my parents were born in the 60s, they introduced me to this awesome style of music and the Hr pufnstuf movie which introduced me to Mama Cass, this song is so wonderful 💖
not theirs though:/
I heard this in Vietnam when I was still there
I was a medic
I use my grandsons phone cuz he died and I don't have to money to buy one
This song, the ethereal beauty of it. Absolutely amazing
Did Stranger Things 4 remind you of this, or did you just discover it?
@@papa_xan i did
From San fernado y east Los
I heard they loosely based it on monks chanting in harmony...their whole sound
When you hear this classic, it always sounds like it's a much larger group
Such an amazing song. The harmony of the vocals and the layering are all perfect. Musical bliss.
Backing vocals and general vocals are Spine tingling!! His voice when he sings “well I get down on my knees” 😳 🎶
They’re the best! I love them. 🤩😍✨
no homo?
Bro?
Reminded me of John Lennon
This song defined the California sound. A masterpiece of harmonic vocals and one of those songs that will live forever and ever. And Michelle was such a natural beauty.
Now the California sound is a guy taking a dump infront of a family on main street
@@stoptrudeau42never seen that happen, u sure that wasn’t in Florida ?
@@TheImpuresprobably in Florida. Californian here, we don’t see that kinda stuff either.
Michelle Phillips? She was very pretty . . . And she knew it. She looks and acts like a stuck-up snobby cheerleader.
and such a mean rhymes witch… b…
. she tortured cass
First time hear this song after watch Mr Plankton. Both the music and film are amazing
my grandma was born in 1949 and plays this on a little radio in her kitchen! I've spent the past 2 days mostly at hers and walking around that old house hearing 60s music is so special to me. especially with all the memories my mum has told me about from the 70s and 80s as she grew up there with her siblings
edit: my grandparents are moving soon but their house will always have a special place in my heart being as I went there a lot when I was younger, and because they've been living there since around 1971 and my mother + my aunts and uncle grew up there
that’s nice
Cool!
I like your name.
@@miguelangelcolon1345 thank u
+bag of cocaine
Why not gift to your grandma a compact, lightweight, simple, easy on the eyes stereo but with little more oomph, like around 20 watts? Makes music sound in much more enjoyable way filling up the kitchen with more details in sound.
Not born in that era, never been to California, but listening to this song somehow feels so nostalgic. Picturing myself in a car entering California with grey skies and listening to this song.
That song made me want to move to Queensland from Melbourne. Couldn't tolerate another winter there!
Jay....I recall older cousins playing this.
Been to California. I forgot to play it driving to Venice beach and Malibu 🙈🙈🤷♀️.
Maybe next time...
as I have cousins living in California. Thankfully ⛱. Stay well n stay safe wherever you are
👍👍😌😌🎶🎶
@@mariskameszaros6413 welcome to QLD
No cellphones only social interaction. Those were the days!
Me too
“Stepped into a church, I passed along the way. Well I got down on my knees and I pretend to pray…” Something about those lyrics always floored me! Love this song!
Jesus loves you
@@rexrambo7686 I'll pretend that you pretend that he pretends to love Jesus
The lyric was not, pretend, it was “began”. It still is “began”.
I can hear the “t” sound now as well (but it’s changed and I am not even close to being confused).
Also, I truly Love Jesus … and encourage everyone who knew this song 🎧 and even this video to not let these ai clowns confuse you.
Oh, and by the way … this was one of the songs that was a part of the long haired “Jesus Freak” hippie movement … and they weren’t pretending either (put that into your ai computer algorithm goog’s).
For everyone else (human), it’s time to either get to the gospel of Jesus Christ or get back to Him, because the “strong delusion” is nearly upon us.
🙏🕊🙏
Sorry but everything I have seen is “pretend” Google official lyrics
Amazing vocals convey a longing for warm sunny day. Being cold in a dark city directs souls to warm up in any church...whether they "pretend" or "began" to pray is irrevalent. Someone ELSE cared enough to provide a safe warm place temporarily...FREE...to them. Sadly money doesn't grow on trees. Live a life you can afford and don't drag others down.
Hat's off to the "MAMAS AND THE PAPAS",this ICONIC foursome's music was definately the soundtrack of the 60's👏👏👏
The harmonies in this song are beautiful.
Try Carpet Man Fifth Dimension
When Denny Doherty sings the line, "Well I got down on my knees." What an incredibly powerful voice.
One of my favourite parts of the song!
denny is from nova scotia. He had some great stories to tell in interviews about his time in the group and the era.
@@deetsepnopoulos3122 Michelles mom was Canadian as well.
Yeah, he owned this song
ufffffff me pasa lo mismo!!! estoy hipnotizada con esta voz!!
One of the defining songs of the ‘60s, yet it is truly timeless.
Not sure why but it makes me emotional, especially when the photos are shown of them. it like i long for something i never had
The sound of Silence the OG Simon & Garfunkel & NIghts in White Satin. Gives the same vibes.
They don't make music like this anymore. The 80s was the last time we had really good music there is a few hits here and there for the most part it's all crap.
@@upallnite3164 Argeed
@@upallnite3164 Agreed. I’d throw the 90s in there for grunge and alternative rock but once the new millennium began, music went completely downhill. I’d argue the golden age for music to be the 60s - 90s. But 60s stuff will always be better than music we have today, that’s for sure.
Ф16 для Украины
Mr.Plankton tys for i remember this beautiful song ❤️!
real
God, there’s just something so hauntingly beautiful, and almost ominous about that specific harmony from 0:16 to 0:22. I can’t even think of a way to describe the feeling it gives me.
Yeah, I just love how the mamas sang it!
The vocals and backing vocals are just insanely good.
I think I understand what you mean. I'm sure some music professor could help us understand what's happening musically to cause that feeling...
I can explain it, but my explanation is kinda useless if you don't know music theory :(
@@succulent_pork3254 still explain please!i I'm hella interestedly and know some music theory :D
This song possesses an element of finality to it. Like it’s a conclusion to a story that hasn’t been told yet. I love the feeling I get listening to it.
Great credits music
Take a cold shower and walk the dog.
Like tomorrow the world is ending
The main character dies of frostbite when going outside, that's the conclusion
@@bambooprincess3495 I'm pretty sure the song is about getting stuck elsewhere and they just wanted to get back to LA, which inspired them to make this song.
This is such a strange harmonic sound. Almost like it's an echo of something that is no longer alive. There's a certain melancholy that permeates through it despite the upbeat tempo and vocals. It's almost ghostly. Then of course we have the wonderful harmony and harmonisation. Probably a song that will never disappear from the musical consciousness.
Well said! ❤
Toska - a feeling that never existed or you can’t pin down.
тоска́ • (toská) f inan (genitive тоски́, uncountable) melancholy, depression. boredom, ennui, weariness.
Maybe its the ghosts of 3 of its members, only Michelle is left
@@user-nq9gz4xf7f I see your point and yet this song always felt like this.
Mr. Plankton let me found this masterpiece
Listening to a song that existed before my father was born. Giving me nostalgia of times when I didn't even exist. God these old songs have something in them which we can't find in anything these days
I believe it's called 'soul'
@@thethatone2166 amen
Those days ppl write songs out of sincerity not of royalty
@Aashish Babu: if you liked this listen to "What about Me" by Quicksilver Messenger Service. Let me know if you liked😎🕊
Yes,Truth Indeed AMEN 🙏
For some reason this music makes me Fell nostalgic for a place and a era i dont was born.
Strange.
Music does things, man
I think that’s called hiraeth
It is so evocative.
feels like vietnam war
Reminds me of the 60s, when I was a child. I loved that era. and early 70s.
This song comes very close to the best in the 1960s.And that is one hell of an achievement.
I am a huge The Beatles fan and i am actually going to agree with you :)
As they say ' great minds think alike." I like you am also a huge Beatles fan ( but then,who isn't).
Richard Scanlan I'd say it was one of the greatest songs ever written.
Without a doubt.
Damn straight, man.
This was one of my grandmas favorite songs she passed due to stage four cancer I called her mom so mom I love you so much and thank you for introducing me to good music while I was younger
It was written 61 years ago in 1963, it's still brilliant in 2024, the song does not age.
Готова не один раз подписаться.
creo ke esta canción ke es Preciosa yo la escuche en el año 1963 o en 1964
Released 1965
a oui je la passe toujours ....
You got that right wonderful song
RIP Cass Eliot the ultimate Mama. Intelligent, multi talented. Without you there was no group.
mama cass ❤️❤️
Which one was that?
@cheese900 The big girl
👆👍👍👍✌✌👆✌👆
@@doge-ox1fj skid row
Nothing beats the 60s music, a wonderful song
80s music: i am a joke for you
@@alextsitsi9934 after de 70's comes the 80's fam
Yea......I would say the 80s def beat 60s music and if not they came close lol 😂
I was a child of the sixties. Went to school in Monterey California, best music ever from that time.
@@markpatjoebilldinousar1111 70's was even better. True though, 80's music was great.
I'm here after watching Mr. Plankton
It's so sad I'm crying
Same😭😭😭😭
real
This song makes me feel feelings I’ve never felt before and it is so addicting to me
Makes me miss the ‘60s and I was born in 1994.
@@mr.perfect2852 then Listen to eminem and play mgs1 on a psx that is more nostalgic
Want another addictive song? Check out "White Bird" by Its a beautiful day and.. Wow!
Good music always moves you
This is a masterpiece, hands down. I can see my entire youth before my eyes in the length of this song. Awesome,amazing and perfect.
Well said! Couldn't agree with you more.
God bless
Perfect. I agree. Sums up so much!
JUST WONDERFUL.
The harmony between them is timeless.
Came here after Mr. Plankton, this song will remind me of that show forever now 😭💔
Honestly it caught me off guard when this song started playing outta nowhere 😭
Me too!!
Aha legit just watched that episode, kdrama so good so far!!
Yes, me to😫😭😭😭😭
Same here
Потрясающая композиция. Люди много лет назад исполнили нетленную вещь. Низкий поклон и уважение!
👍👍👍
Мне 27 слушаю ток сегодня они шикарны просто такой музыки сейчас почему то очень не хватает 🥰
@@дорикалкоголик сейчас Басков Киркоров и Моргенштерн
Да это вам не лада седан баклажан...
@@lenusha Моргерштерн здесь вообще не в тему.
This music is eternal! With love from Russia.
Agree. With love from Sweden
Same here man Sweden all the way.
Dima Meteor From Germany ;)
Boris darling, what for we hunt moose?
BIGLENN ii
This song is timeless. Great harmonies/lyrics.
yes yes yes!!!
All the leaves are brown... So like they just missed all the Autumn colours? Love this song but the lyrics make no sense. I went for a walk and missed any other shade than brown? Perhaps walk more.
@@withershin 😏
Even the lip syncing is timeless.
One of the few songs that never get old.
Right ear: california dreaming
Left ear: ...CALIFORNIA DREAMING
It’s weird because I was listening with one ear and it sounded weird
Ikr
:)))))))))))))
No stereo?
and that's a great feel :D
The world is more colorful while listening to this song.
Altug Boz the intro and chorus make the world sound dreary and bleak, but this is definitely a great and fun song
You should try the world on acid, man.
I used to sing this while I did the dishes as a kid in cornfield country, Illinois, never imagining I would actually live and raise a family in southern California some day! Been here 20 years, still think I am dreamin! 😍
Too bad its become a she-it hole
@ExDeeXD Music edgy internet child would definitely know
@ExDeeXD Music i hope not!
@@fisheatsyourhead yes, I would, I moved from California to America once. it's great here.
@ExDeeXD I don't know what part of California your in but where I live is beautiful
Прекрасная музыка и прекрасные исполнители.Прошло много времени,но их песня так и осталась хитом на все времена!👍
Born in 07 but my dad listens to alot of 60s music and so I've heard this on the radio quite a bit and it has become one of my favorite songs
You were born in 1207? 😮😮
@@Account_abandoned-q7m2007 he means.
@@Account_abandoned-q7m😂😂to the same say
Same, I miss the 1107s 🥺
@@Account_abandoned-q7mI think he was referring to the same year I was born, 1107
This song gets more dystopic each year.
How so?
@@kro9036 California became flooded with lies, fire, and destruction. It's not worth dreaming about anymore.
2021-8-Gas in California has reached 5$
@@TheRebornNukester200 Jesus Christ. Another reason not to dream.
@@kro9036 google: California homeless crisis, California opiates epidemic, California unaffordable real estate, California high taxes, California land speculation, California exodus, California shrinking middle class
Brings me back to a time where I didn’t exist, how is this possible
me too, i really like it
Kind of like many of us came back from a place like Vietnam which we wish did not exist and we try to forget. The song lifts my spirits but also recalls the many things of "Nam I wish to forget. Maybe we met somewhere in time?
Top 10 For me
I hear ya.....didn't really feel all that important catching the school bus.....want a time machine....go back and do a journal so I can remember all l've forgotten.
you have always existed
Oh how I yearn for those days!!❤️
still gives me goosebumps listening to these angelic voices
Same here! Have a Blessed New Year.
64 year old with you, 1/1/2024...Happy New Year
I agree with you!
Awesome group and song, back in 1965,year before I was born 💙
same! all their talents combined is just beautiful.
Always loved the music of the 60's and 70's. Now as I am older and retired I appreciate it more than I could understand back then.
Only one band member still alive.
That is very interesting thank you for sharing 😊
40s and 50s too, 80s was also a great decade for music
This song is a masterpiece still in 2024! Bravo❤
Love this song
Real music
That inspire many
Who grow up in this best years
Of love peace guest forever
Young 😇😇👀👀✌️✌️
They don't make songs like this anymore. It reminds me of my childhood and being young and carefree. Just beautiful harmonies ❤
Yeah it is. I even saw a FB meme referencing it just a couple of months ago
Yea it is.
When winter comes and the days are short, this song feels like salvation.
I was born in 1989, my Dad used to hold me in his arms and dance around the living room to this. It was 1 of his favourite songs ❤️
That is a lovely memory. x
I did same with my boy and now he’s a musician
Figueroa y Olympic my place
❤️🩹
Sad she choked on a submarine sandwich, they found it in her hand when she was dead.
The most nostalgic song ever written. God I love the 60’s and California Dreamin
Me too, Cody. Amazing.
It was the best.
So do I. How I truly miss that era!!!!
It looks like their performing a happy song yet the song itself has a different vibe I low-key love it
Same
Fr
I,m 26 and this is one of my favourite songs!
One of the most beautiful songs ever written!!!!
amen
@G AlphaYou are kidding
No
They look natural, simple clothing, no perfect noses, teeth or hairstyles.
No dramatic posing or on the contrary- huge smiles. I like it, its nice to watch.
I mean, Michele Phillips was incredibly beautiful!
And not a trace of "Yo Mama" to be found :-).
@@festeradams3972 Yep, there was no state of " Yo" back then.
So agree. And Cass may not have the classic sexy body like Paris Hilton (who names their kid after a hotel?). but her beauty is evident and brilliant. Love you.
I remember as a African American kid during the time of the 60's there was so much turmoil and I didn't understand what was happening. The world was so scary. I recall the first time I heard this epic song on my grandmother's radio. It gave me such hope for the future! I thought the hippies were going to save the world! This song still lifts me up when I have had too much of the world's insanity!
+shaaronie ... and then they invented cell Phones light enough for women to carry in their purse while shopping.... ;-)
+godseesyouthrumyeyes get lost
Its scary nowadays too
they fell into place and became cogs just like their predecessors.
fox inuasha yeah you may be correct... i seem to remember the word Hippie was invented by the media not by the Flower Children or whatever they were. I guess my point is, the way all that happened, it was really being dictated by the Media. The 'hippies' liked the attention so they accepted the name and the fame and the game... but when they did they lost whatever identity from within; if there were any real movements, they were hijacked by the media and rendered as you say, into more cogs.
This is such a really great song, and always will be ❤