The Mamas and the Papas took a more circuitous route to fame and fortune.
Bobby Womack calls himself the "last soul man, " and his 1968 version of The Mamas and the Papas' "California Dreamin'" demonstrates that it's no exaggeration.
John Sebastian and Zal Yanovsky of The Lovin' Spoonful, and Cass Elliott and Denny Doherty of The Mamas and the Papas all started off in the group.
The 1967 event was organized by Lou Adler and the late John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas and it was caught on film by documentary filmmaker D.
The Monterey International Pop Festival, which preceded Woodstock by two years, brought together a diverse group of big-name acts including the Mamas and the Papas and Jefferson Airplane as well as some then-unknown performers, notably Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.
Michelle Phillips, a member of the Mamas and the Papas, remembers how Hendrix amazed the crowd and fellow artists with his jaw-dropping performance, playing his guitar on his back, behind his back, lying down and setting the instrument on fire.
Phillips, the 49-year-old former child star and daughter of the Mamas and the Papas founder John Phillips, says she had sex with her father the night before she was to marry Jeff Sessler, a member of the Rolling Stones entourage, in 1979, according to People.com.
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Eventually, she and her father went to rehab together and she later toured with him in a band called the New Mamas and the Papas, according to People.com.
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The Epic Moms are connected to Vail Resorts and the Mile High Mamas provide information on a wide variety of topics, snow sports included, in the Denver area.
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Ms. WILLIAMS: It's a factor to the extent that the mother - and single mamas listen to me here when I say this - to the point where the mother makes it an issue.
The singer was a close friend of Mamas and Papas star John Phillips, who wrote and produced the San Francisco track.
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And to that question when single mamas come on and ask me on the free advice section, you know, what can I do to make ends meet, what I suggest is that they tap into their talent.
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