Re: Go Where You Wanna Go

[Barry Scott <barrys@pop.tiac.net>]

The Mamas and Papas version was an unreleased album track when the 5th Dimension
recorded it.

Martin J. Waters wrote:

> >Larry Lovering wrote::
> >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.
>
>         A friend checked the Billboard book listing hit singles since the
> '50s, and it shows the 5th Dimension version as peaking at #16 on 2/4/67.
> It was on the charts for seven weeks and it was the group's first top-40
> hit. The M&P version is not listed, I am told. I guess they were so heavily
> played then that their version got play even though it was not a single? Or
> maybe it was a B side for them? Funny that many people, like you, now ID
> the song with the M&P.

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