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If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears is the debut album from vocal group The Mamas & the Papas (stylized as The Mama's and the Papa's []), released on February 28, 1966.. The stereo mix of the album is included on All the Leaves are Brown (2001), a double CD compilation consisting of the band's first four albums and various singles, as well as on The Mamas & the Papas Complete Anthology (2004 ...
It peaked at No. 4 in the United States and No. 23 in the United Kingdom. "Go Where You Wanna Go" was covered by the 5th Dimension on its album Up, Up and Away and became a Top 10 hit. The quartet's debut album, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, followed in February 1966 and became its only No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
In the UK, it was released as a double A-side with "Dancing in the Street" (a cover of the 1964 hit by Martha and the Vandellas) and charted at number 47 in the UK. After John Phillips discovered that group member Michelle Phillips was having an affair with Gene Clark of the Byrds , he fired her from the group on June 4, 1966.
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] Three years later an extensive search of label archives worldwide turned up all the mono singles and mono LP masters from which the 50th Anniversary 2-CD set was ...
The song is used repeatedly in the 1994 Hong Kong film Chungking Express as a central plot point [25] and a cover by the Beach Boys was used on season 4 of Stranger Things. [ 26 ] Michelle Phillips wrote the lyrics, "Well, I got down on my knees / And I pretend to pray," but Cass Elliot had sung "began" on the original recording and had ...
"Monday, Monday" is a 1966 song written by John Phillips and recorded by the Mamas & the Papas, with backing music by members of the Wrecking Crew [2] for their 1966 album If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears. Denny Doherty was the lead vocalist. [3] It was the group's only #1 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. [4]
You can witness the fascinating mesh of performances—from Gordon Lightfoot and Neil Young, to Anne Murray and Corey Hart—in a feature-length documentary released in December of that year ...
The Mamas and the Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966) The album cover, which features the four members in a bathtub, also featured a toilet in the far right corner. The inclusion of this toilet was controversial for the time and copies with the cover were pulled due to complaints of indecency.