The Mamas & The Papas’ version is the most well-known, and for Cass Elliot, it became her signature song. She dreamed about performing on Broadway and landed a touring role in The Music Man though she ...

When members John and Michelle Phillips, Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty — musicians who’d all played in other bands, sometimes with each other — formed their group in the mid 60s, they named themselves ...

The Mamas & The Papas enjoyed an incredible stretch of success in the 60s, proving that the vocal group approach still had legs in the psychedelic rock era. But theirs was a relatively brief heyday.

When Denny Doherty decided to craft “Dream a Little Dream” – a musical about the Mamas and the Papas – he apparently had second thoughts about telling it all. He called it a “nearly true story. The ...

As the voice of 1960s “flower children,” The Mamas and The Papas came to define that decade with songs — like “California Dreamin’” and “Monday, Monday” — we still recognize today. The music of the ...

It’s been said that ‘if you remember the sixties you really weren’t there’ because everyone was whacked out on drugs. But everyone remembers the music and Dream a Little Dream: The Nearly True Story ...

One fun fact you'll learn at "Dream a Little Dream" is that Mama Cass Elliot's favorite piece of music was the theme from "Peyton Place." Which makes sense when you consider what a tangled soap-opera ...

Halifax-born singer-songwriter Denny Doherty, who achieved his greatest fame as a member of the Mamas and the Papas folk group in the 1960s, has died. The pop group the Mamas and the Papas pose ...