California Dreamin' The Mamas & the Papas 1 HOUR ///+

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California Dreamin' The Mamas & the Papas 1 HOUR ///+If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears is the 1966 debut album by The Mamas & the Papas. In 2003, the album was ranked number 127 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It reached no 1 in the USA in February 1966 and hit no 3 in the UK soon after.California Dreamin' is a song by The Mamas & the Papas, first released in 1965. Celebrated as an anthem of West Coast hippy bliss, John Phillips wrote the song in a state of depression in 1964 after a cheerless winter's walk through New York's Central Park. It's a song not of joy, but of immense pain.California Dreamin 'pjesma je The Mamas & the Papas, koja je prvi put objavljena 1965. Proslavljena kao himna hippy blaženstva zapadne obale, John Phillips napisao je pjesmu u stanju depresije 1964. nakon neraspoložene zimske šetnje njujorškim Central Parkom . To je pjesma ne radosti, već neizmjerne boli.Lyrics:

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)

I'd be safe and warm
(I'd be safe and warm)
If I was in L.A.
(If I was in L.A.)
California dreaming
(California dreaming)
On such a winter's day

Stopped into a church
I passed along the way
Well, I got down on my knees
(Got down on my knees)
And I pretend to pray
(I pretend to pray)
You know the preacher like the cold
(Preacher like the cold)
He knows I'm gonna stay
(Knows I'm gonna stay)
California dreaming
(California dreaming)
On such a winter's day

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)

If I didn't tell her
(If I didn't tell her)
I could leave today
(I could leave today)
California dreaming
(California dreaming)
On such a winter's day
(California dreaming)
On such a winter's day
(California dreaming)
On such a winter's day

"California Dreamin'" is a song written by John Phillips and Michelle Phillips and was first recorded by Barry McGuire. However, the best-known version is by the Mamas and the Papas, who sang backup on the original version and released it as a single in 1965. The song is No. 89 in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The lyrics of the song express the narrator's longing for the warmth of Los Angeles during a cold winter in New York City.

The song became a signpost of the California Sound, heralding the arrival of the nascent counterculture era.

"California Dreamin'" was certified as a Gold Record (single) by the Recording Industry Association of America in June 1966 and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.

The song was written in 1963 while John Phillips and Michelle Phillips were living in New York City. He dreamed about the song and woke her up to help him write it. At the time, John and Michelle Phillips were members of the folk group the New Journeymen, which evolved into the Mamas and the Papas.

They earned their first record contract after being introduced to Lou Adler, the head of Dunhill Records, by Barry McGuire. In thanks to Adler, they sang the backing vocals to "California Dreamin'" with members of the session band The Wrecking Crew on McGuire's album This Precious Time. The Mamas and the Papas then recorded their own version using the same instrumental and backing vocal tracks, to which they added new vocals and an alto flute solo by Bud Shank. The guitar introduction was performed by P. F. Sloan. McGuire's original vocal can be briefly heard on the left channel at the beginning of the record, having not been completely erased.

The single was released in late 1965 but was not an immediate breakthrough. After gaining little attention in Los Angeles upon its release, a radio station in Boston was the catalyst to break the song nationwide. After making its chart debut in January 1966, the song peaked at No. 4 in March on both the Billboard Hot 100, lasting 17 weeks, and Cashbox, lasting 20 weeks. For all of 1966, "California Dreamin'" was the number one single in Billboard and tied for number one with "Ballad of the Green Berets" in Cashbox. "California Dreamin'" also reached number 23 on the UK charts upon its original release, and re-charted after its use in a Carling Premier commercial in 1997, peaking at number nine there.

The song is repeatedly used in the 1994 Hong Kong film Chungking Express as a central plot point./*//+//+///+I have no copyright or copyright for this D.V.D.Album, unless the administration,you tube considers that I have violated the copyright will be deleted and removed from my channel, my respect and thank you!!!/+

California Dreamin' 1 hour