The Mama's and The Papa's-If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966)


 

Artist: The Mama's and the Papa's

Title:  If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears

Label: Dunhaill

Format: LP

Cat #:D-50006

Year of Release: 1966

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1966 Mono

Listed Condition: G+/VG+

Sell Date:1/10/22

Sell Price: $4.99

Discogs Last Sold: 1/13/22 VG/VG $3.99

Low: $1.25 VG/generic

Median: $4.00

Average: $5.35

High: $13.95 VG+/VG+

Current low price: $2.00 G+/G+, $2.90 G+/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 31

Have/Want: 3684/419

Where Sold: Chatham, Ontario, Canada

Time it took to sell: 7 years

Where and When Bought: AlBums $1.00 bin used

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

A few weeks ago I had a parody of "Monday Monday" going through my head that made me chuckle.  My own joke to myself, unshared with anyone, until, this very moment, where I have to say something profound about the album.  In my sick brain, the lyrics go "every other day..."  Mama Cass chimes in "EVERY OTHER DAY"  Denny Doherty counters on the quick "Every Other Day" then Michelle Phillips gloriously sings "WE EAT PIE!" then Mama Cass lustily chimes in "WE EAT PIE ALL OF THE TIIIIME."  

We'll no bad thought goes unpunished this album sold to $5 to a Canadian customer before the $21.99 was tacked on to ship to Canada.  $21 flat is the postage rate, but after fees and the money I pay for boxes my net was maybe $3 for the sale of a middling Mono copy graded as such.

I was indeed looking forward to hear the non-hit side openers (that would be the aforementioned non-Pie eating edition of "Monday Monday" and the other mega-hit "California Dreamin'").  I really never need to hear either of those songs again as long as I live but I'm sure they will be in the background dozens more times of my remaining years.

So many songs on this are standards to the world of (gasp) punk rock--Bobby Freeman's "Do You Wanna Dance" was mellowed out Mama Papa--style,  before the Ramones revved it up a decade later.  "The In Crowd" has an elevator polish one always assumed but never focused on. They also do a take on the Beatles "I Call Your Name" that makes some of the previously undecipherable lyrics understandable.  I never, ever thought Lennon was WEEPing.  I always thought he couldn't get a good night's sleep.  Until today.

For me the song of the record is "Straight Shooter."  They may be high, but they want everyone to know in straightsville that they would never ever do such a thing as a toot or a toke or tab, wink wink.  

Every other day...we eat pie...

All of the time!



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