![]() ![]() I didn’t want to hire a staff of people: “Okay, you write the strings, and you write the horns, and you write the arrangements, and you play the guitar.” I wanted one person that I could work with and really communicate with, who could understand me and my music and what I wanted to say. Because I knew I wasn’t capable of doing it myself I didn’t have the objectivity. I had been looking for six months for the right producer. I guess I was too out of it to listen to it because it didn’t make any impression on me whatsoever the first time I heard it. ![]() Alan had played me Music From The Big Pink. A friend of mine, Alan Pariser, brought him over for dinner. As a matter of fact, I thought he was silly and I thought here’s somebody I can really work with because I’m basically the silliest person I know. I can listen to the vocals and the orchestra and everything and not be chained just to my own voice in a playback. It’s the first thing I’ve ever done I can listen to objectively. But I don’t think I’ll take my new album off. If somebody comes over and says, “Will you play that for me?” what I do is run over to the record player and play “Shake It Up, Baby” or something, because it offends me. I just don’t feel like listening to them. I will admit in all honesty there are a very few songs on all the Mamas and Papas albums that I’m really proud to listen to. John (Phillips) did all the arranging and althought there were a lot of things I didn’t really understand, we did them. My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing. I didn’t quite understand that last album. ![]() The last Mamas and Papas album was lower key than what had preceded it … I guess it’s a lot lower key than a lot of screaming and yelling I did with the Mamas and Papas. Whatever it is, it’s where I’m at right now.” I think it’s more important what other people think of it. Some friends came in – Graham Nash of the Hollies, John Sebastian – and they said, “I’m gonna have to tell you, if it’s bad, I’m gonna have to tell you, because I really love you and I wouldn’t want you to put something out that you’re gonna be ashamed of.” I said, “If it isn’t great, it’s because I’m not great then. Well, David Crosby said about a dozen times it took him further than he’d meant to go, which I thought was such a groovy compliment. She is a Virgo and she said that meant she hated to be late, but explained that she had just come from Dunhill Records, where she had heard for the first time a complete playback of her album, “Dream a Little Dream.” We began our talk with that subject. These subjects, among others, were discussed with all the emotion they were due in the Beverly Hills office of her personal manager, Bobby Roberts. During the sae period she became a real mama, developed an avid interest in the “borderline sciences,” and, thanks in large part to the Democratic convention, became a political activist. But it was as a member of America’s Fantastic Four, the Mamas and Papas, that she built her public reputation in three years, she became the unchallenged queen of the pop music scene. ![]() (long before joining the Mamas and Papas), and as a member of two other groups, the Big Three and the Mugwumps. 2” – was as yet unreleased, but it seemed definite the Mamas and Papas had already said their farewell as a group.Ĭass Elliot had sung alone before, in a jazz club in Washington, D. Another Mamas and Papas album – “Farewell to the First Golden Era. And two networks were bidding for her talents as host of her own weekly variety show. She was picking and choosing carefully from among the dozens of guest star television invitations. She was preparing a night club act for Las Vegas (Caesar’s Palace for three weeks, beginning Oct. When I interviewed her – her first interview in more than a year, she said – she had just finished recording her first solo album. Repeated reports that the Mamas and Papas had broken up were at last, it seemed, confirmed. ![]()
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