Product Code: SSLM 6056
Artist: Mamas & The Papas
Origin: New Zealand
Label: RCA Victor (1967)
Format: LP
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Condition:
Cover: VG+
Record: VG+
Genre: Pop U

Farewell To The First Golden Era

Very smart vinyl with a good gloss cover showing minor shelf wear.

At the time of its release in October 1967, Farewell to the First Golden Era was great for what it was, but ominous for what it foreshadowed, with both of those characteristics apparent in the album title. It was, as the term "Golden Era" indicated, a greatest-hits album, its 12 tracks including all nine of the Mamas & the Papas' chart singles up to that time: the gold-selling number one "Monday, Monday"; the gold-selling Top Ten "California Dreamin'"; the Top Tens "I Saw Her Again Last Night," "Words of Love," "Dedicated to the One I Love," and "Creeque Alley"; the Top 40s "Look Through My Window" and "Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)"; and the chart entry "Dancing in the Street." But this wasn't just the first golden era, it was the only one, and with a lone Top 40 hit (a cover of Rodgers & Hart's "Glad to Be Unhappy") left and one half-hearted album (The Papas & the Mamas, April 1968) to come before the group's breakup, this really was farewell.