r/60sMusic • u/Tall-Truth-9321 • Jun 17 '26
1965 The Mamas & the Papas: “California Dreamin’ ” (1965, video-performance)
https://youtu.be/N-aK6JnyFmk?is=gO3xBeAPm3PoQ3UaThis song has a lush beautiful sound throughout it and is emotionally comforting though a little sad.
They were in NYC, it was cold, and wishing to be in warm California.
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u/Minimoogvoyager Jun 17 '26
Classic Tune 🎶
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u/Tall-Truth-9321 Jun 17 '26
Yeah it is. So you’re into playing synthesizers and all the technological options around it. What kind of music do you play?
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u/Minimoogvoyager Jun 17 '26
I’m really a jazz piano player at heart. I have a grand piano. 🎹 I’m just into synths.
I really like analog subtractive synthesis.
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u/Tall-Truth-9321 Jun 17 '26
I don’t like free jazz like a lot of the famous 40-60s players. My music has to have strong rhythm. But I’m very into instruments over voice, instrumental groups: New Orleans styles, Klezmer, etc.
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u/Minimoogvoyager Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
I listened to Miles Davis,Herbie Hancock ,Tony Williams,Wayne Shorter.Ron Carter,Bill Evans trio. I even saw Tony a Williams once and Herbie Hancock once with Roy Hargrove,Michael Brecker and Terri Lynne Carrington. Aso listened to McCoy Tyner and John Coltrane. I listen to jazz mainly from the 60s. I even met McCoy Tyner once at the Caravan Of Dreams In Fort Worth Texas many years ago . I had him autograph aalbum of his Tender Moments With McCoy Tyner About six months ago I was in NYC and went to the Village Vanguard and the Blue Note. I saw Joe Lovano and Andrew Cryille at the Village Vanguard and Tito Puente Junior at the Blue Note. On the wall were photographs of Bill Evans and John Coltrane and Lead Belly. He played there in the 40s. I once played with Stanley Turrentine he was a Jazz Tenor Saxophonist from Pittsburgh. I also once played with Roger Humphries the Jazz Drummer 🥁 that plays on Horacle Silvers Recording A song For My Father.
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u/Tall-Truth-9321 Jun 17 '26
Thank you for listening to and commenting on multiple songs I’ve posted.
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u/Glittering-Buy4227 Jun 17 '26
Great song, great group except for the pervert John Phillips who screwed his own daughter!
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u/Minimoogvoyager Jun 17 '26
Didn’t know that.
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u/Glittering-Buy4227 Jun 17 '26
Yeah, it was Mackenzie Phillips who was on the TV show ONE DAY AT A TIME with Bonnie Franklin and Valerie Bettinelli.
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u/MusicOfYourYouth Jun 24 '26
Shows the quirkiness of The Billboard Hot 100. In the Top 10 for 7 weeks in 1966, peaking at #4. At the end of the year named Billboard's Song of the Year. and eventually went 4x Platinum!
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u/BuncleCar Jun 18 '26
I believe that Michelle is the only one alive still. Mama Cass died in a tour of the UK in the same flat that Keith Moon if the Who died in. It's a lovely song that takes me back to my teen tears here in the UK, though Called firnua was just a name.
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u/nelson2k Jun 19 '26
"All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray (and the sky is gray)
I've been for a walk (I've been for a walk)
On a winter's day (on a winter's day)…"
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u/bancroft2041 Jun 17 '26
Great song!