These hit songs from the 1960s definitely swayed you in certain directions when your music taste was forming as a child.

One of The Monkees’ songs has a line about The Mamas & the Papas’ Mama Cass. The song also references The Beatles. The track was a huge hit. The Monkees took more control over their songs as the 1960s ...

In 1967, folk-rock group The Mamas & The Papas were forced to lip-sync their song "California Dreamin'" on "The Ed Sullivan Show," and rebelled by making this obvious to viewers. While the band's ...

When members John and Michelle Phillips, Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty — musicians who’d all played in other bands, sometimes with each other — formed their group in the mid 60s, they named themselves ...

“California Dreamin’” is not only the signature song of the vocal group The Mamas & the Papas, but for Michelle Phillips, one of its writers, a manifestation of her life and musical career. Born Holly ...

Andy Partridge is a founding member of the band XTC. He contributed two songs to The Monkees’ 2016 album Good Times!: “You Bring the Summer” and “Love’s What I Want.” The former was a single while the ...

Michelle Phillips still has warm memories of the Mamas & the Papas. While working as a model in San Francisco, the singer/songwriter met and married John Phillips in 1962. They co-founded the ‘60s ...

We're trying to inject a little positivity in the paper (and on dailyherald.com) with a daily "Song to Make You Smile." It's designed to help lift you out of your coronavirus funk. Today's selection ...

Denny Doherty, one-quarter of the 1960s folk-rock group the Mamas and the Papas, known for their soaring harmony on hits like "California Dreamin"' and "Monday, Monday," died Friday at 66. By The ...

For a while now, it’s been known that Andrew Slater, a producer and former president of Capitol Records, was working on Echo In The Canyon, a documentary that explores the ’60s Laurel Canyon music ...

A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Monday honoring the late singer "Mama" Cass Elliot, fulfilling a longtime quest by the daughter of the member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame pop ...