That perfect, triple-threat, definitively Mamas and Papas attack of voices, words and music is conspicuously absent”. It bombed and David Fricke of Rolling Stone damned it: “John's lyrics fall flat here and there, Mama Cass is almost totally wasted, and the group's harmony vocalising rarely exceeds limpness. So in 1971 the Mamas and the Papas appeared again with People Like Us. ![]() When we look at the cast of misfits, murderers and murder victims, oddballs and eccentrics in our articles at WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT, you'd be entitled to ask why Rock and Roll Hall of Famers and hit-makers The Mamas and the Papas should be in such strange company.īy way of explanation, let us start at the end.īecause in the real world the group – John and Michelle Phillips, Denny Doherty and Cass Elliot – broke up acrimoniously in 1968 and the members went their separate ways.īut then ABC/Dunhill Records stepped in and demanded one final contractual obligation album.
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