4/19/2023 0 Comments California dreaminSince its rerelease, he has been acknowledged as a driving force, with his guitar, his voice, and his sheer talent. The one album he recorded, 1971’s Time and Place, wasn’t discovered by soul fans until after his death in 1998. Lee Moses didn’t get anywhere near the attention he deserved in his lifetime. Lee Moses – California Dreaming (The Mamas & The Papas cover) The album featuring her take on “California Dreamin’,” 1969’s Walk a Mile in My Shoes, was released only a few years before Ward died of a series of strokes Aretha sang at her funeral. Franklin, Aretha’s father, and Ward served as her mentor. No wonder Ward and her singers regularly toured with Rev. If she had, it might have sounded something like Clara Ward’s version. I can’t find any indication that Aretha Franklin ever sang “California Dreamin'” – a missed opportunity, that. He’d gone through enough ups (riches from the Stones covering his “It’s All Over Now”) and downs (ostracized for marrying Sam Cooke’s widow) to have a lot to pour into his “California Dreamin’.” Clara Ward and the Ward Singers – California Dreamin’ (The Mamas & The Papas cover) Bobby Womack – California Dreamin’ (The Mamas & The Papas cover)īobby Womack’s debut album was a long time coming by the time Fly Me to the Moon was released in 1969, the twenty-five-year-old Womack had been singing professionally for over fifteen years. Jose Feliciano’s version is probably the most famous cover, but these five easily match it for the changes they put it through, and the success of those changes. It also has a tensile strength, with artists speeding it up, slowing it down, and adding any color they liked to great effect. The song has retained its wistful hold on distant comfort to this (winter’s) day. (Even if most of America, including Cass Elliot herself, misheard the lyric “I got down on my knees / And I pretend to pray” as “I began to pray.”) But in Boston, a town that knows a thing or two about wishing for warmth in the dead of winter, it hit big, and from there it soon made it to all of America. The Mamas and the Papas version came out first, and in Los Angeles, it did nothing. It was earmarked to be Barry McGuire’s next big hit after “Eve of Destruction” – they’d recorded the backing vocals for him and everything – but then the powers that be decided to strip McGuire’s lead and add Denny Doherty’s. “This” was the start of “California Dreamin’,” the Mamas and the Papas’ first big hit. The next morning, John woke her up and told her to write this down. The couple had spent the day walking together, stopping by a church to warm up in the process. She grew up in Mexico and California, so when she went to New York to stay at the Earle Hotel with her husband John, she didn’t have the right clothes. Michelle Phillips had never seen snow before.
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