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Re: Go Where You Wanna Go



The song was featured a few years ago in a radio
ad for Northwest Airlines.



- ---Barry Scott <barrys@pop.tiac.net> wrote:
>
> 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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