Mamas and Papas Creeque Alley (with commentary)
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- Опубликовано: 21 фев 2010
- Thanks Leftycraig48 for the source info - "From a 2005 documentary by American Public Television called "California Dreamin' - The Songs of the Mamas & The Papas". Looks like it's out of print but may still be available on DVD thru Amazon if anyone's interested"
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Cass was THE key element in this group and she made everyone in it a shining star.
50 Years old this year and still so relevant today.
You can hear Cass over all 3. She had an amazing voice!
I love the autobiographical lyrics and how they bounce back and fourth with the harmonizing duties. My favorite line is "And California Dreamin' is becoming a reality."
And now, there is but one................but the music is still here, inside us, always here!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Cass is the magic ingrediant in that group. The arrangements and harmonies are beautiful, but her voice makes that band ring out like a bell. It would never have worked without her voice.
She was an awesome contralto.
Cass was the Gertrude Stein of 1960s CA music. Her home was something of a salon. She introduced Graham Nash to David Crosby. How much would this world have lost if she hadn't? She was a beautiful woman, dynamic personality, and gifted singer.
Perfect harmony in all their songs.
This has just about gotta be my favorite Mamas & Papas tunes...The history combined with their incredible harmony, (and in this video), the incites and dynamics in the group. Just so much fun to watch.
This tune has all been my favourite of theirs.
I grew up with their voices, my dad used to play their music every night to enjoy it... Now i'm 25 and following his steps!! ^_^
When Mama Cass says “cue the tape”, LOL!
notice they actually did. he wasnt playing guitar
@@samueltromp about 4 measures in he takes his hands off the guitar to move his capo ... so yes obviously not really playing. But that's the way they did things back then. Moving the capo was likely his way of mocking the directions he had been given by the bosses to "act like you're playing" and he was determined to mess that up on purpose. They might have been actually singing ... although probably not likely ... bringing in an edited backing track without the vocals would have been more trouble than it was worth ... so ... yes they were lip syncing too.
Mama Cass was hilarious. She was truly special. They all were special.
@@rickmarcell Singing/playing over a backing track was most common with these variety shows. The artist could drop in and out as needed, without disturbing the 'performance'. That's why there is seemingly reverb and an echo effect on the vocals. It's an acoustic guitar, so it's most likely not being picked up by the vocal mic. Sometimes the house band would add stuff to create a live effect.
What's really special about this clip is that if you're very familiar with the group's albums, you will notice that this is one of the very few instances where live singing is actually done (Words of Love being another), alongside the pre-recorded track. You can hear Denny,Cass and Michelle live.
Yes....that's what adds to this clip......the mix of live and recorded. The brass at the end sounds like it's live, too. You can hear them put the microphones back on the stand, too, at the end.
This song explains so much about the music scene back then.
I was 18 when i first heard that song ..I wish i could go back and live that life again
This song makes my heart happy :) Their harmonies are just awesome!
Mama Cass was really Ellen Cohen from Forest Park High in west Baltimore and a member of the glee club......loved forever, she was fabulous!
Cass Elliot had a great voice and the four of them made a great vocal team.
It's about a particular moment in American pop music. All of the people in the song - the M&P, John Sebastian, Zalman Yanovsky, Roger McGuin, Barry McGuire, started out in the folk revival of the late 50s, and by the early 60s wanted to break out into something new, and they did.
John B. Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, The Loving Spoonful, Cass, "Papa John" & Michelle Phillips, Denny Doherty, Barry McGuire, Roger McGuinn, The Byrds, et. al.......all in one song. Wow.
And shook up the world....
That's actually pretty cool how they knew each other. A happy little hippie group of friends.
Thanks for posting this! Singing in four part harmony is no easy task...they were the best at this! Thanks again. I enjoyed this greatly.
CSN&Y were just as great.
I miss real music like this.
Wonderful!
On this day in 1967 {April 23rd} "Creeque Alley" by the Mamas and the Papas entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #83; and on May 28th it peaked at #5 {for 1 week} and spent 9 weeks on the Top 100...
It reached #9 on the United Kingdom's Singles chart...
Was track 3 of side 1 on the quartet's third studio album, 'Deliver', and the album peaked at #2 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart...
Two other tracks from the album also made the Top 100 chart; "Dedicated to the One I Love" {at #2} and "Look Through My Window" {at #24} ...
Sadly, three of the group's four members have passed away, Cass Elliot {1941 - 1974}, John Phillips {1935 - 2001}, Denny Doherty {1940 - 2007}, and Michelle Phillips will celebrate her 70th birthday in less than two months on June 4th, 1944...
May Cass, John, & Denny R.I.P.
Oct 2021 and Michelle is keep on keeping on ...
Born in the mid 60’s intuitively I understood the greatness of the era
So happy to find this! I remember watching this on tv back in the day. Thanks for posting
Yes! That is true...
The incomparable Mama Cass Elliot was my favorite of the four. What a woman!
It is so great to go back and visit the history of 60's music. This song sums up several groups in a clever way.
It's hard to believe that his group only recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968. I'm 50 years old and I've been listening to them the whole time, still do.
Yeah, they did a heck of a lot in a heck of a small period of time! Good for them! Rest In Peace Cass, John, and Denny. And long live Michelle!
The great music of the 60's. And the Mamas and Papas made some of the greatest of it.
Thanks for the additional information and great job on the video. This was the greatest time in American popular music.
Best photos of the band I have seen on RUclips. My favorite track from the band, of all the dozens of great songs they had.
Such a funny & beautiful song, especially with the commentary.
a great song and a great story about mamas and papas....but there were no happy end!
If you missed the sixty's...study this song, it tells it! Takes me back....and forth!
On this day in 1967 {June 11th} the Mamas and the Papas performed "Creeque Alley" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
At the time it was at #21 and in its eighth week on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart...
this song makes me cry-in a good way. just listening to its lyrics and looking at all the pictures of everyone talked about in the song. and thinking about how the sixties were a time of lots of changes...
Cass was magic, but they all were magic during this time period.. i think your looking at many bands here.. love them all.. hats off to you all .. :D
Thanks for posting, for a moment I'm on the West Coast in the Sixties, oh well back to reality after a Surreal moment, but still California Dreaming, in a Golden State of Mind....
Excellent song and the commentary is outstanding too,thank you much for posting!!
Great song....love this group :) ✿⊱╮
The Mamas and the Papas ... we shall not see their like again.
Mammals and papas its getting better
No, Lindsey.....we shall not. More's the pity.
Probably good for any guy hooked up with the Michele type.
This song makes me SO happy. I love the Mama and Papas. 🥰
On this date in 1967 {Apr. 29th} "Creeque Alley" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100; eventually it peaked #5 and spent 9 weeks in the Top 100...
It was the Mamas & Papas 6th and last Top 10 record...
It was the 2nd single released from their "Deliver" album; the album ranked #2 on Billboard's "Top Pop" albums chart for 1967...
I love this song. The way it sounds keeps me in that great mood only music can put me in. Out of all the songs i know by them this is my favorite. It's too bad the others didn't play.
Finally this song makes sense!
It’s better understood if you google its meaning, this page has most of the info on what the lyrics mean, www.creequealley.com/
Every time I hear this song, I keep picturing a biopic made of the band, and the end credits have them performing this song, with the actors' names displayed under the characters. Perhaps reenacting the Ed Sullivan performance.
Love it. Epic does not do this justice.
Every artist mentioned have bevome successgul in their own way..they are IMMORTALIZED!
They were singing about their own past and what they went on to do. They were all friends before and after, with some hiccups along the way.
0:02 Cass broke one of the cardinal entertainment media rules right there...that little upstart broke the illusion.
Thanks a million, Ben! LOVE this song.
Mama cass had a good sense of humor. So smart. Extremely high IQ.
Sounds as good as when it first came out, they were one of my favorites way back then, where has time gone? Getting old is a bummer.
I so agree. Time sure flies. I wish I could click my heels 3 times and go back to the 60's
Genius song writing 👌
BRING IT ALL BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GREAT song.
One of the best ever.
George Vreeland Hill
Soothing and funny song.
So much of 'human nature' in this singing band!
awesome. Thanks!!
Great film footage.
About a year ago, there was a great little documentary on RUclips that explained this song's meaning and the band's history in depth. It was very cool. I can't find it now.
I love you for posting this!
I’ve always wondered how Cass felt about the “fat” lyric 😂. Seems like she had an amazing sense of humor
I read cass getting fat is she was the best singer so she was the one making the money
John was a genius
brilliant!
“Zal” went onto form the Lovin Spoonful with Sebastian. He was a really gifted guitarist. Would’ve been a great Classic Rocker.
So love it
There weren't -- and aren't -- many who could -- or can -- sing a song the way that they did.
Excellent job on this video!
sorry im too young, but I just love this song
... :D
Cass was way too greatttttt
Excellent! :D
Such a great tune, thanks benhoughton for posting this, it really helped . I do have a lesson on this tune if anyone like to learn how to play it!
Songs are at there best when they have a good sound & great lyrics, better still is to find out wear the lyrics come from
One of the ten greatest rock recordings ever. Great flute in the middle of the original and super folk lyrics. One of the few true rock-plus-other genre performers. Most of the other groups or individuals who claimed to attain that, were a sham.
What a song. How often do you hear one band sing about other bands, essentially praising them?
I like that color film clip of Michelle in the sun !
Momers and peppers where and stll great thanks ladies and gentlemen 😊👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Great song....
I met Michelle Phillips Jerry Rubin 70th birthday party running for Santa Monica city council
The only correction is that Cass actually attended American University, but unfortunately that doesn’t rhyme with “sophomore”!
Love Mama Cass!
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Will someone PLEASE post the studio version of this song...
Some time to people amazement songs from a long time ago do last the distance n this is one of those who would have bet on it me to don't think that I have a good hunch the classic be sure of airplay to this day
so glad i was around for these times .... use guys times SUCK for music
Mama cass is the very best
great grove!
1:39 Maguire didn't think about how his story was going to be right up against the lyrics that clearly are: ,,,M & M still getting HIGHER in LA...
Simply Genial
still groovy
Cool with the comments. Thanks
He meant "fat" as in making a lot of money. It was an inside joke.
That's what I heard, also
I don't believe that Michelle said, "Your such a card". LOL
Epic.
Awesome 😎 group
John and Mitchy were gettin' kind of itchy just to leave the folk music behind
Zal and Denny workin' for a penny tryin' to get a fish on the line
In a coffee house Sebastian sat and after every number they'd pass the hat
McGuinn and McGuire just a-gettin' higher in L.A., you know where that's at
and no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass
Zally said "Denny, you know there aren't many who can sing a song the way that you do, let's go south"
Denny said "Zally, golly, don't you think that I wish I could play guitar like you"
Zal, Denny and Sebastian sat (At the Night Owl) and after every number they'd pass the hat
McGuinn and McGuire still a-gettin higher in L.A., you know where that's at
and no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass
When Cass was a sophomore, planned to go to Swarthmore but she changed her mind one day
standin' on the turnpike, thumb out to hitchhike "Take me to New York right away"
when Denny met Cass he gave her love bumps called John and Zal and that was the Mugwumps
McGuinn and McGuire couldn't get no higher but that's what they were aimin' at
and no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass
Mugwumps, high jumps, low slumps, big bumps don't you work as hard as you play
make up, break up, everything is shake up guess it had to be that way
Sebastian and Zal formed the Spoonful, Michelle, John, and Denny gettin' very tuneful
McGuinn and McGuire just a-catchin' fire in L.A., you know where that's at
and everybody's gettin' fat except Mama Cass
di-di-di-dit dit dit di-di-di-dit, whoa
Broke, busted, disgusted, agents can't be trusted and Mitchy wants to go to the sea
Cass can't make it, she says we'll have to fake it we knew she'd come eventually
greasin' on American Express cards, it's low rent, but keeping out the heat's hard
Duffy's good vibrations and our imaginations can't go on indefinitely
and California dreamin' is becomin' a reality
Songwriters: John Edmund Andrew Phillips / Michelle Gilliam
Good job!
Good job!
The Night Owl, The Cafe Wha, The Cafe Why Not, all hangouts for the teenage me before Greenwich Village was drowned in commercialism and everyone that mattered had moved to the East Village.
A lot of great potential music was lost when Cass died, too bad we sometimes we get lost on image
Where can I find this full-length documentary?
Several are on RUclips ...
Go up !!
i love cass elliot!!