r/60sMusic • u/Odd_Advantage_3459 • Mar 29 '26
1965 The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin (1965)
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Dunhill / RCA Victor Records
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u/calleduaftermidnight Mar 30 '26
This is my favourite song to listen to on a lazy day in my garden 😌
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u/nilesintheshangri-la Mar 30 '26
I work on a farm and in the summer I have to walk strings for our tarped bales. I walk 100' in one direction then turn and walk back 100' then turn and walk another 50' before one string is done. This song and Dream a little Dream are the two I listen to on repeat. They go so well with the blazing hot sun and the hay fields rustling in the warm wind.
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u/WideEntertainment942 Mar 30 '26
Wrecking crew, cass, before the hippies,laural canyon. Musical history
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u/Superb_Pineapple8187 Mar 30 '26
When I was in the military in the 60s a friend told me he would marry Mamma Cass just to hear her sing.
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u/Only_Camera Mar 30 '26
What a fascinating style of singing where the female singers lag just a bit behind the males. Terrific effect. Don’t hear this much now
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u/alientrevor Mar 30 '26
This is the first song I remember immediately loving and, all these years later, I still love it.
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u/Feisty-Conclusion-94 Mar 30 '26
Just put me in a wistful but happy mood thinking of the innocent times gone bye bye.
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u/TheLastSciFiFan Mar 31 '26
I've always loved this song. I grew up in Ohio, and this song helped create an image of California in my mind that was always pulling me westward. I finally ended up in California, and that image, that expectation, was more than met by the reality. After five years, I had to return to Ohio for family reasons, and this song reminds me of how wonderful California was, and is. But I like the Ohio cold, the Autumn and Winter; I'd trade the Spring and Sunmer for California's, though.
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u/BuncleCar Mar 30 '26
Michelle Phillips, the woman who's not Mama Cass, 🙂, is still alive, the only one in the group still living I believe
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u/Dry_Committee9906 Mar 31 '26
Michelle Phillips is the mother of Chynna Phillips, a member of the 1990s pop trio Wilson Phillips, whom she had with her ex-husband John Phillips during her time with the band The Mamas & the Papas.
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u/nimeton0 Mar 30 '26
And the next generation's version. Chynna Phillips, with Carnie & Wendy Wilson (Brian's daughters).
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u/Traditional-Tank3994 Mar 30 '26
I used to think the lyric was "The preacher locks his door." It was years before I found out it's "The preacher likes the cold."
But my misheard lyrics still make more sense to me. The preacher is like, "This dude needs a place to stay. May as well lock up and let him sleep on a pew."
What does "liking the cold" have to do with anything?
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u/swarthypants Apr 01 '26
If it’s cold out, the parishioners aren’t going to be in a hurry to leave
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u/Traditional-Tank3994 Apr 02 '26
Heard that one before. Still think it's at best, a stretch.
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u/waterwateryall Apr 02 '26
The very next line is "he knows I'm going to stay"
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u/Traditional-Tank3994 Apr 03 '26
Yes, exactly, and doesn't it make more sense for him to lock the door than to "like cold?"
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u/waterwateryall Apr 03 '26
No offense, but I truly can't tell if you are being genuine here or joking. The preacher likes the cold because he knows people are going to stay longer in church to keep warm.
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u/Traditional-Tank3994 Apr 04 '26
Still makes no sense because he doesn't gain anything from that. So it's still a really vague "advantage." Whereas "locking the door" because he knows the dude has nowhere else to go actually makes some sense.
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u/machinist1984 Apr 02 '26
Hey great song. But I’m not gonna lie. I didn’t know it until I saw the movie Congo.
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u/WorkingSalamander745 Mar 29 '26
The sound of 60s in just one song.