The Mamas & The Papas - Monday Monday

What this video is

Released in March 1966 on Dunhill Records and reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 7, 1966 — the group's only US chart-topper — 'Monday Monday' arrived at the precise apex of the California sunshine pop moment. Written by John Phillips in approximately 20 minutes, the song entered a pop landscape still transitioning from early-1960s formalism toward the bohemian folk-rock sound the group helped define. It…

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A canonical artifact of mid-1960s sunshine pop and California folk-rock, 'Monday Monday' represents the commercial and artistic peak of the Mamas & the Papas' four-part vocal harmony style. Alongside 'California Dreamin',' it defined the sound of the Los Angeles bohemian scene for a mass audience…