Coming up….we tell the story of the 1960s Classic hit California Dreaming’ by the Mamas and the Papas. First, the song was bestowed upon a famous folk singer riding the wave of a #1 smash. Barry McGuire who had just hit the top of the charts with Eve of Destruction….He was set to follow up his Big hit with California Dreaming... However, when his interpretation of the song was deemed unfit for popular consumption, Papa John Phillips took an unexpected turn and ERASED his vocals completely. Barry was Livid. However, The move transformed California Dreaming into one of the Rock Era’s most iconic anthems and took the rookie band the Mamas and the Papas to superstardom. Comprised of John Phillips and Michelle Phillips and Mama Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty. These guys would go on to have 10 hits including the #1 smash Monday Monday but would crash hard after due to substance abuse. How the controversial artist who called himself “the Wolf King” betrayed the friendship of a fellow folk singer Barry McGuire… oh ya and the band has been signing the wrong lyrics the entire time, for 60 years. The story is next.

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Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you remember the oldtime life commercials pushing their 60s 70s and 80s collections you’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia. Make sure to subside right now so you don’t miss out on our latest interviews and videos. In the heart of the ’60s, a revolutionary wave of music charged across the American cultural landscape, expressing the sentiments of a generation yearning for change, peace, and a comfortable place in the sun. At the forefront of this renaissance were the Mama’s & the Papas, the folkrock ensemble not only captured the spirit of the times, they also carved their names in the tablets of rock history with the timeless, resonant anthem, California Dreamin’.

John Phillips was a principal member of the folk trio The Journeyman touring across California when he met a beautiful 18yearold model in a San Fransisco nightclub named Michelle Gilliam. John, who was married to another woman at the time, was immediately smitten. The two had an affair and were married, immediately after John’s divorce with his first wife. As newlyweds, John & Michelle Phillips moved to New York, created the group The New Journeyman, and began to write songs together.

Being from the sunny, palm tree utopia of Southern California, Michelle was a fish out of water in the Big Apple. She arrived in New York City, completely unprepared for the piercing cold wind that blew through the streets of Manhattan in the wintertime. Michelle had no gloves, no hat, and no scarves. The couple had only been in the City a few weeks when Michelle got homesick. She couldn’t understand how anyone could live in such a cold climate. John often wrote songs about what was happening in his life or what was happening in the lives of people around him.

He had a propensity to write late at night, sometimes while Michelle was sleeping nearby. In the quiet confines of their room at the Earle Hotel in Manhattan during one of those said late nights, while Michelle was peacefully sleeping, John softly strummed his guitar and initiated the creation