As a young 67 year old THIS beautiful song just sums up that particular part of my happy carefree life.....Peace and Love ....live on (well in my mind anyway)!!
@@terrymackenziehoy7145 I'm still going strong at 74 Terry, and my mindset is still the same thankfully, Peace and Love ,two things that really should go hand in hand.
It’s true that those times were carefree compared to now! Just live through the past two years, and you’ll realize how little we had to worry about in those days.Basically the drive-through taco place at midnight-did it have enough hot sauce? That was about all I had to worry about for decades.
I live in Laurel Canyon and I always feel so lucky to be in an era where so much good music was created back in the 60s. I can still feel those carefree hippie summer of love vibes when driving up Laurel Canyon on my way to Lookout Mountain.
I wasn’t a teenager until disco era, but what happened to California proves that money wrecks everything. (I turned 13 in 1969, but was such a late bloomer...was very serious mental retardation...)
Michelle Phillips is so beautiful in these pictures but she seems so uncomprehending? Maybe that;s part of the attraction, but this song has a sense of dire sadness to me. Thank you for a great production and sound quality.
i had this playing on my iphone when i visited cali and the sequoias in aug'14 {from the east coast} and it was such a long-awaited trippy experience. waited so many years to make this song really happen in real life
Michelle wrote on her book California Dreaming, that Twelve Thirty was written about their trip in 65 to the west coast, when John, Michelle and Denny aiming to be in California, was paid to drive and deliver an autmobile from New York to L. A., she said they didnt have money enough to do that trip, they even made a stop at the Grand Canyon to appreciate the landscape tottaly stoned.See my video of Crosby ,Stills Nash & Elliot, Pre-road Downs with lots of images of Laurel Canyon
Very nicely done. Never get tired of the beautiful harmonies that John Phillips created throughout all of their recordings, they blend especially well here on this song!
"Cloudy waters cast no reflection; images of beauty lie there stagnant. Vibrations bounce in no direction, and lie there shattered into fragments . . . "
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, by all means, to anyone who plays this- Do make sure expand screen-lights off! It turns this video into whole new experience! I'm impressed!
Miss Michael the mas and papas wrote their music to inspire you to become a songwriter/singer.........../.. 1st just write it down then set a date to sing your brand of music on stage. My name is Tommy West Boulder, Colorado. I live approx.: 30 miles away from Red Rocks. I bet you if you write it then set a date there people will pay to listen to what you are singing.
The hits (10 of them made the top 40) and their popularity lasted a little more than two years but it was magical and memorable. They did have serious drugs and drama but when it came to their music they nailed it to perfection.
On this day in 1967 {September 24th} the Mamas & the Papas performed "Twleve Thirty" on the CBS -TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show' One month earlier on August 26th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #20 & spent 6 weeks on the Top 100 It was their last Top 20 hit; in a 20 month period from January 1966 to August 1967 they had six Top 10 records, with "Monday, Monday" being their biggest hit, it reached #1 {for 3 weeks} RIP Ms. Elliot, Mr. Phillips, & Mr. Doherty
Laurel Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains was the hip place for cool LA popsters, c. 1968. And adjacent canyons: Coldwater (Neil Diamond's "Coldwater Morning"), Stone (Rickey Nelson's band), Cahuenga (are you kidding me?)
I absolutely cannot get this song out of my head. As a teenager I had one of their albums. But I just saw "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". I can't stop thinking about this film, the music from that time (it takes place a little before and during the Sharon Tate murder.) However, this film is more an homage to Sharon Tate, an homage to the music of the time, the innocence, mixed up with the bizarre Manson clan. Anyone read "Season of the Witch" about San Francisco at this time? Anyway, holy buckets it makes me think so much about this time period. Tarantino at his best, best, best. I keep replaying "12:30". Can't help it.
Nope, I guarantee it. It was a time when we were younger and life seemed so full .and exciting. Every day was a new page. Passions were strong then , love, joy, sadness and sometimes pain, but we felt alive. Going back in our memories sometime stirs old feelings that well bring a tear or two.
MAMA CASS AND THE REST OF THE MAMAS AND PAPAS were foremost sun sign Virgo's there accomplishments are LEGENDARY the reason ladies they wrote there music is and always was to inspire all you Beautifull ladies I see every day out there to the very same thing write it down then and only then you will have become what songwriters/singers.
Just the opposite in my case. Great memories. On another note, I think "Twelve Thirty" was underrated. It always took second shelf to "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday" "Look Through My Window" was another of The M&P underrated songs. But a GREAT song in it's own right.
ésta canción es la que más me gusta.,y me gusta oirla bién fuerte. hermoso el video , hermosas imágenes de éste maravillosos conjunto musical.gracias por compartirlo.,un abrazo desde Chile.
Exceptional harmonies from late in the original group’s existence. John Phillips compares laid-back Laurel Canyon in LA, in the Flower Power era, to the melancholy of his former life in New York, and enjoys a simple pleasure-relaxed conversation with young girls (apparently walking home after spending the night up there with their pop heroes). Maybe John was emerging from depression and just felt good to be alive, and “Cloudy …” might allude to his depression, or to feelings linked to substance abuse-even assuming the two can be separated. "I used to live in New York city. Everything there was dark and dirty. Outside my window was a steeple, with a clock that always said 12.30 … Young girls are coming to the canyon, and in the morning I can see them walking. I can no longer keep my blinds drawn, and I can't keep myself from talking … At first, so strange to feel so friendly, to say good morning and really mean it. To feel these changes happening in me, but not to notice till I feel it. … Cloudy waters cast no reflection. Images of beauty lie there stagnant. Vibrations bounce in no direction, but lie there shattered into fragments. …
Great video, well done! According to Scott McKenzie's website, this John Phillips song would be Scott's follow up song to his great 1967 hit "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)" but contractual obligations resulted in the Mamas and Papas recording it.
those were the daze in la of hippies, protests, love-ins at griffith park during the summer of love.....i was working with green power at the time feeding hippies at the love-ins...meanwhile i took a 2 month trip to israel which caused me to hear 12:30 being played a lot on israeli radio
I always thought this referred to girls walking down Manhattan's concrete "canyon" streets in the morning going to their office jobs. Hell, what did I know? I just turned 13 when the tune was released.
John Phillips and Scott McKenzie go all the way back to Alexandria, Virginia, together, where they grew up. By the way, Virginia was in the Confederacy. In case you hadn't heard they lost the Civil War. You should take down that racist loser flag. I assume you're not a racist loser ... but.
hollywood101usa: You are right on about what you say in your post below this one: Please take it one step farther: Inpire LADIES YOU EITHER KNOW OR DO_ NOT KNOW TO BECOME THE NEXT SENSATIONS JUST LIKE THE MAMAS AND PAPAS DID they will be super proud of you. so will I Tommy west Boulder, Colorado.
Almost a great video. Some of the images are spot on ... but what are the images of the West doing there? The "canyons" referred to in the song have nothing to do with the desert-it refers to the concrete canyons between skyscrapers!
Do you ladies out there know why the mamas and papas wrote all there music to inspire all who pick up a pen to write their words down and become like them rich and quite famous. I know they did it to inspire you ladies in the universe to do the very same thing they did. one of them told me. Tommy West Boulder, Colorado.
Yeah my buddy and his dog killed two of 'em and I torched the other one Torched? Yup, believe it or not I have a flamethrower in my tool shed From the 14 fists of mccloskey? Yeah that's the one, still works thank God
John Phillips was certainly one damm fine songwriter.😅❤
I was 20 years old in 1967 when I listen to this song I'm 20 again, back in the summer of love.
As a young 67 year old THIS beautiful song just sums up that particular part of my happy carefree life.....Peace and Love ....live on (well in my mind anyway)!!
Hey Dennis it can't gets better than these memories...
@@terrymackenziehoy7145 I'm still going strong at 74 Terry, and my mindset is still the same thankfully, Peace and Love ,two things that really should go hand in hand.
It’s true that those times were carefree compared to now! Just live through the past two years, and you’ll realize how little we had to worry about in those days.Basically the drive-through taco place at midnight-did it have enough hot sauce? That was about all I had to worry about for decades.
@@Pimp-Master... Have you forgotten the Vietnam War!
This is the best one they recorded.
They had their problems, but they sure could sing , couldn't they? You bet.
Loved the song as a teenager in the 60's and it's still great today. So sad to have seen Mama Cass pass away so young!
I live in Laurel Canyon and I always feel so lucky to be in an era where so much good music was created back in the 60s. I can still feel those carefree hippie summer of love vibes when driving up Laurel Canyon on my way to Lookout Mountain.
Frank Z. was there, The Monkees, Buffalo Springfield, AND MANY MANY MORE!
I was lucky to be a teenager in L A during the 60s. Such great memories
I wasn’t a teenager until disco era, but what happened to California proves that money wrecks everything.
(I turned 13 in 1969, but was such a late bloomer...was very serious mental retardation...)
Cass's soaring vocals!!! my eyes are welling up.!!
While in Vietnam I heard this playing on the radio, my eyes welled up too , wishing I was home .
@@patdibona6285 I Know It's
A Really Beautiful Song.
Thank You For Your Service.
God Bless.
Chills. Every. Damn. Time.
That comment goes to everybody that has a heart. Period.
What a VOICE 🇺🇸 💙
Michelle Phillips is so beautiful in these pictures but she seems so uncomprehending? Maybe that;s part of the attraction, but this song has a sense of dire sadness to me. Thank you for a great production and sound quality.
GREAT video.
What an era of music that influences so much of everything today.
However, I wish today's music was as good.
Thank you!
I agree with you about today's music...there's a lack of inspiration
This is one of my 'All Time Favourites ... (but I've got so many) anyway this one is pretty close at the top
i had this playing on my iphone when i visited cali and the sequoias in aug'14 {from the east coast} and it was such a long-awaited trippy experience. waited so many years to make this song really happen in real life
i had a v. similar experience :)
Michelle wrote on her book California Dreaming, that Twelve Thirty was written about their trip in 65 to the west coast, when John, Michelle and Denny aiming to be in California, was paid to drive and deliver an autmobile from New York to L. A., she said they didnt have money enough to do that trip, they even made a stop at the Grand Canyon to appreciate the landscape tottaly stoned.See my video of Crosby ,Stills Nash & Elliot, Pre-road Downs with lots of images of Laurel Canyon
Talent beyond their years. One of my favorites of all time
Very nicely done. Never get tired of the beautiful harmonies that John Phillips created throughout all of their recordings, they blend especially well here on this song!
Wrecking Crew does a fine job backing this song !
They were amazing. If there was ever a "best of" Wrecking Crew album, this one would be on it.
@@Bigbadwhitecracker Larry Knechtel onpiano...stunning!
Gorgeous arrangement, vocals, and production...a beautiful piece
Can't drive Laurel Canyon & not think of this song...
A STORY OF A GROUP FROM THE 1960S THIS IS PRICELESS!!!!!!
My all time favourite! Melancholy and beautiful days long gone...
3 and a half minutes of pure bliss
"Cloudy waters cast no reflection; images of beauty lie there stagnant. Vibrations bounce in no direction, and lie there shattered into fragments . . . "
And this kids, is how it’s done. It’s called “talent”.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, by all means, to anyone who plays this- Do make sure expand screen-lights off! It turns this video into whole new experience! I'm impressed!
What a beautiful flashback!!
Love this song one of their best.. Captures the time
Miss Michael the mas and papas wrote their music to inspire you to become a songwriter/singer.........../.. 1st just write it down then set a date to sing your brand of music on stage. My name is Tommy West Boulder, Colorado. I live approx.: 30 miles away from Red Rocks. I bet you if you write it then set a date there people will pay to listen to what you are singing.
I always think of this as a direct sequel to Look Through My Window.
That was so sad and so different sounding that it never had a prayer of becoming a mainstream pop hit. I am surprised that it reached #24.
One more of the Mamas and Papas' classics.
This is one of the greatest songs ever!!!
Classic Song in the classic late 60s 🇺🇲 🖤
The hits (10 of them made the top 40) and their popularity lasted a little more than two years but it was magical and memorable. They did have serious drugs and drama but when it came to their music they nailed it to perfection.
Exactly. Hard to believe they accomplished so much in such a short time..
im black and i love this song..
On this day in 1967 {September 24th} the Mamas & the Papas performed "Twleve Thirty" on the CBS -TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
One month earlier on August 26th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #20 & spent 6 weeks on the Top 100
It was their last Top 20 hit; in a 20 month period from January 1966 to August 1967 they had six Top 10 records, with "Monday, Monday" being their biggest hit, it reached #1 {for 3 weeks}
RIP Ms. Elliot, Mr. Phillips, & Mr. Doherty
Laurel Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains was the hip place for cool LA popsters, c. 1968. And adjacent canyons: Coldwater (Neil Diamond's "Coldwater Morning"), Stone (Rickey Nelson's band), Cahuenga (are you kidding me?)
My fave M&P tune...
Another Beautiful Song By These Greats. God Bless.
Wow! What a very powerful video to one of the best songs of the era.
The BEST M&P's song, hands down! Thanks for uploading!
Beautifully edited video for an incredibly beautiful song.
Timeless!!!!!!...
What a terrific song and video. I was 18 years old when this was done, lots of memories connected with this song.
Great song....Great video....Wonderful job !!!
Thanks a lot :)
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely brilliant video... thank you for the labor of love.
You're welcome vikingivor. Thank you very much for your appreciation.Happy Holidays my friend.
Awesome song! Great video with wonderful pictures! Thank you for posting this.
great song
this is the best vid for an incomparable song...so grateful
Thank you very much for your comments. It's really great that you've enjoyed it that much . Thank you.
You, sir, have talent. Many, many thanks.
I absolutely cannot get this song out of my head. As a teenager I had one of their albums. But I just saw "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". I can't stop thinking about this film, the music from that time (it takes place a little before and during the Sharon Tate murder.) However, this film is more an homage to Sharon Tate, an homage to the music of the time, the innocence, mixed up with the bizarre Manson clan. Anyone read "Season of the Witch" about San Francisco at this time? Anyway, holy buckets it makes me think so much about this time period. Tarantino at his best, best, best. I keep replaying "12:30". Can't help it.
It’s always 12.30 after I listen to this song .
Heavenly harmonies.
Is it just me. . my eyes are welling up.
Nope, I guarantee it. It was a time when we were younger and life seemed so full .and exciting. Every day was a new page. Passions were strong then , love, joy, sadness and sometimes pain, but we felt alive. Going back in our memories sometime stirs old feelings that well bring a tear or two.
MAMA CASS AND THE REST OF THE MAMAS AND PAPAS were foremost sun sign Virgo's there accomplishments are LEGENDARY the reason ladies they wrote there music is and always was to inspire all you Beautifull ladies I see every day out there to the very same thing write it down then and only then you will have become what songwriters/singers.
Just the opposite in my case. Great memories. On another note, I think "Twelve Thirty" was underrated. It always took second shelf to "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday" "Look Through My Window" was another of The M&P underrated songs. But a GREAT song in it's own right.
ésta canción es la que más me gusta.,y me gusta oirla bién fuerte. hermoso el video , hermosas imágenes de éste maravillosos conjunto musical.gracias por compartirlo.,un abrazo desde Chile.
Omg. Love this song
its a great song.life can shatter into fragments is very very true
Beautiful video. It captures both the spirit of the song and the spirit of the times.
Love this video!
a time capsule in song.
Thank you very much ! It's great you've enjoyed that much.
Did Mama Cass know about harmony?
She knew who Stephen and David needed to make them sound better.
What a beautiful video, with fantastic photos of the group! Loved it
Exceptional harmonies from late in the original group’s existence. John Phillips compares laid-back Laurel Canyon in LA, in the Flower Power era, to the melancholy of his former life in New York, and enjoys a simple pleasure-relaxed conversation with young girls (apparently walking home after spending the night up there with their pop heroes). Maybe John was emerging from depression and just felt good to be alive, and “Cloudy …” might allude to his depression, or to feelings linked to substance abuse-even assuming the two can be separated.
"I used to live in New York city. Everything there was dark and dirty. Outside my window was a steeple, with a clock that always said 12.30 … Young girls are coming to the canyon, and in the morning I can see them walking. I can no longer keep my blinds drawn, and I can't keep myself from talking … At first, so strange to feel so friendly, to say good morning and really mean it. To feel these changes happening in me, but not to notice till I feel it. … Cloudy waters cast no reflection. Images of beauty lie there stagnant. Vibrations bounce in no direction, but lie there shattered into fragments. …
This is a beautiful vid with great sounds and pictures. So well done it brings back clear memories of the time.
..bad memories, however great song.
Dlh
Love the shot of Cass at 1.43.
un abrazo a usted tambien.
as always.. wonderful visuals and sound..
:)
The canyon as refferer is a Laurel Canyon in L.A.
Sifey, I love this song, it makes me think of you
Awesome thanks
My fav
Great video, well done!
According to Scott McKenzie's website, this John Phillips song would be Scott's follow up song to his great 1967 hit "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)" but contractual obligations resulted in the Mamas and Papas recording it.
Could've been worse. If the song had surfaced ten years later the insufferable Rod Stewart may have latched onto it!
QUE MARAVILLA DE CANCIÓN, GRAN VIDEO AMIGO, GRACIAS!!
those were the daze in la of hippies, protests, love-ins at griffith park during the summer of love.....i was working with green power at the time feeding hippies at the love-ins...meanwhile i took a 2 month trip to israel which caused me to hear 12:30 being played a lot on israeli radio
Hippies liked Eilat
Hey, congrats on having a really good copy of this.
Great video!!
I saw their bio last night on the Biography channel.Check out John's album ,John,the Wolfking of LA.Great song.
I always thought this referred to girls walking down Manhattan's concrete "canyon" streets in the morning going to their office jobs. Hell, what did I know? I just turned 13 when the tune was released.
Caramba!...linda edición como siempre
Manson’s girls in Laurel Canyon,on their way to Spahn Ranch.
@ocnarfeara Thanks! I checked out Scott`s versions of Twelve Thirty and Rooms, they are very good.
What's the most times you've listened to this in one day? 3? 8? 12?
Who else heard this in Q. Tarantino's "Once upon a time in Hollywood" for the first time, lol?🤩😉😎
Is that Scott McKenzie between Momma Cass and the other dude with glasses at 0:07?
Yes. He and Phillips were long time friends and were in various groups together beforehand.
John Phillips and Scott McKenzie go all the way back to Alexandria, Virginia, together, where they grew up. By the way, Virginia was in the Confederacy. In case you hadn't heard they lost the Civil War. You should take down that racist loser flag. I assume you're not a racist loser ... but.
Heard some awful things about John Philips over the years but what an incredible lyricist and songsmith he was.
Wrong Canyon!
John wasn't referring to the Grand Canyon. He was singing of Laurel Canyon and the Hollywood hills
hollywood101usa: You are right on about what you say in your post below this one: Please take it one step farther: Inpire LADIES YOU EITHER KNOW OR DO_ NOT KNOW TO BECOME THE NEXT SENSATIONS JUST LIKE THE MAMAS AND PAPAS DID they will be super proud of you. so will I Tommy west Boulder, Colorado.
❤
Almost a great video. Some of the images are spot on ... but what are the images of the West doing there? The "canyons" referred to in the song have nothing to do with the desert-it refers to the concrete canyons between skyscrapers!
Laurel Canyon is not concrete between skyscrapers. He is contrasting NYC and Laurel Canyon, so both kinds of canyon are appropriate.
Thanks, Will! I've actually learned something! :)
Can't anybody put up some good late 60's early 70's of Topanga Canyon?
Rumored to be OJ’s fave
Do you ladies out there know why the mamas and papas wrote all there music to inspire all who pick up a pen to write their words down and become like them rich and quite famous. I know they did it to inspire you ladies in the universe to do the very same thing they did. one of them told me. Tommy West Boulder, Colorado.
Wrong canyon! They're singing about the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, not the Grand Canyon or Canyonlands National Park!
Quinten Tarantino brought me here !
Quentin is a remarkable person ! (-;
The Mumu revolution never quite took off, did it.
W
Yeah my buddy and his dog killed two of 'em and I torched the other one
Torched?
Yup, believe it or not I have a flamethrower in my tool shed
From the 14 fists of mccloskey?
Yeah that's the one, still works thank God
Lizza says cass was her hero
Great song