RE: Go Where You Wanna Go

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

So, does this mean we all thought it was the M&P and it was the 5thD all
along?

- -Larry Lovering

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Scott [mailto:barrys@pop.tiac.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 12:35 PM
> To: Martin J. Waters
> Cc: lloverin@bbnplanet.com; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: Go Where You Wanna Go
>
>
> 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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