When members John and Michelle Phillips, Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty — musicians who’d all played in other bands, sometimes with each other — formed their group in the mid 60s, they named themselves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ed Sullivan Show was a classic piece of American television and the longest-running variety series, from 1948 to 1971. Every ...

The Ed Sullivan Show was an invaluable resource to artists of the late 1940s to early 1970s, widening their audience by giving them a national platform to promote their music and, in the case of the ...

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas chatted about her illustrious career in the music and recording industry. Michelle Phillips. Photo Courtesy of Dunhill Records ...

Certain celebrity deaths have inspired many conspiracy theories and urban legends. To this day, people are fascinated with the tragic passings of people like Marilyn Monroe and Aaliyah. Mama Cass ...

The Mamas and the Papas were the epitome of California-based sunshine hippie pop and folk-rock, blending their voices to create two huge anthems of the ‘60s in “California Dreamin’” and “Monday, ...

Jampol Artist Management Inc., whose roster includes such legacy artists as The Doors, Janis Joplin, Ramones, Otis Redding, Muddy Waters and Jefferson Airplane, among others, has signed seminal 60s ...

One of The Monkees’ songs has a line about The Mamas & the Papas’ Mama Cass. The song also references The Beatles. The track was a huge hit. The Monkees took more control over their songs as the 1960s ...

Denny Doherty, whose alluring tenor was a cornerstone of the Mamas and the Papas’ “sunshine pop” sound, died Friday in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, after a short illness. He was 66.

Wilson Phillips will celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band by releasing Dedicated, a forthcoming album featuring covers of songs by the Beach Boys and the Mamas and the Papas. The group’s members ...

Lost Under Heaven, the creative collaboration between WU LYF's Ellery James Roberts and Ebony Hoorn, released Something Is Announced By Your Life! only last June; it featured singles such as "Dark ...