RE: Go Where You Wanna Go (Was RE: First radio thread meets tight playlist thread)

["Larry A. Lovering" <lloverin@bbnplanet.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin J. Waters [mailto:mwaters@wesleyan.edu]
>         I like it when everybody's right. I heard the Fifth Dimension. The
> correct title is Go Where You Wanna Go. And the Mamas & Papas also did it,
> which I had forgotten. That's the version that you now hear most often, by
> far (to the extent that you hear it at all). I just checked to make sure I
> wasn't having a brain cramp about the Fifth Dimension, by searching the
> WWWW (wonderful world wide web). I don't know which version was first.
> Maybe it was one of those times that used to happen when two versions of a
> song were released as singles more or less simultaneously (Gloria, All I
> Really Wanna Do). I do know that the Fifth Dimension's version is, IMNSHO,
> way better.
>

The song was writted by John Phillips, and first appeared on the M&P album,
"If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears" in 1966.  The 5th Dimension picked
it
up for their first album, "Up, Up and Away" in 1967.

- -Larry

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