Monday, Monday
Monday, Monday is the title of a millionaire sold by Mamas & Papas in 1966 , composed by their group member John Phillips .
History of origin
The Mamas & Papas, two singers and two singers, had just released their first single, California Dreamin ' , in November 1965 when they had scheduled a new studio appointment at Western Recorders in Hollywood for December 16, 1965 - a Thursday . The close harmony style counterpoint singing vaguely deals with Monday as the worst working day of the week, which disillusioningly follows after a lovely weekend. John Phillips wrote the song overnight. Under the music producer Lou Adler and the technical supervision of sound engineer Bones Howe, the core of the studio musicians The Wrecking Crew accompanied the choral sound of the group. Larry Knechtel (keyboards), Joe Osborn (bass) and Hal Blaine (drums) were in attendance, PF Sloan also played guitar, violins were arranged by Al De Lory. Mama Cass initially had difficulty following the pitch of the composition with her alto voice . A break of almost three seconds before the coda was first used as a musical element. However, it deceived the DJs who heard the song for the first time about the true ending of the song that started again, which eventually ended with a fade-out as an extro . The song was written under the working title Monday Morning (according to the recording protocol) in three hours on Western Recorders in Studio 3. That was unusually short as the group tried to perfect their harmonies. So 20 hours in the recording studio were not uncommon. "Mama Cass is going green in the face, we stop for today."
Publication and Success
When it was recorded, the previous single California Dreamin ' was not yet in the US charts , as it only entered the charts on January 8, 1966 at number 99. This was recorded Monday, Monday before California Dreamin 'could become a hit. It was published Monday, Monday / Got A Feelin ' (Dunhill 4026) on March 24, 1966 and sold 160,000 copies on that day alone. The single entered the US hit parade on April 9, 1966, where it reached first place and held it for three weeks. It was the group's first and only number one hit and, at the same time, their biggest hit with 3.5 million copies sold. The single sold over 500,000 times in Germany alone, for which the band received a gold record from their music label. The song won a Grammy for the best contemporary rock 'n' roll recording by a vocal group. The title led the Bravo annual charts in Germany in 1966 .
He was at least 44 times gecovert , including the German version, titled Monday, Monday, what you bring to me by Peter Haupt (September 1966), which by Günter Loose authored German text rather geared exactly to the original text.
literature
- Gerald Moore: Mamas & Papas . Life Magazine , Sep. 30, 1966, pp. 77-84
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerald Moore: Mamas & Papas , p. 78.
- ^ Joseph Murrells: Million Selling Records , 1985, p. 226.
- ↑ Gerald Moore: Mamas & Papas , p. 84.
- ^ Mamas & The Papas, The - Biography. ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Abbreviated text from: Siegfried Schmidt-Joos, Wolf Kampmann (Hrsg.): Rock-Lexikon . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 2008. From: Musicline.de , accessed on November 16, 2016.
- ^ Günter Ehnert: Hit balance sheet - German chart singles 1956-1980 . 1st edition. Verlag popular music-literature, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 445 .
- ↑ Grammy Award Highlights . Billboard , Mar. 18, 1967, p. 16.
