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All the leaves are brown : how the Mamas & the Papas came together and broke apart
- Title
- All the leaves are brown : how the Mamas & the Papas came together and broke apart / Scott G. Shea.
- Author
- Shea, Scott
- Publication
- Essex, Connecticut ; Lanham, MD : Backbeat Books, [2023]
- ©2023
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JME 23-454 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
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- Description
- viii, 406 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The tumultuous story of how The Mamas and The Papas transformed from folk music wannabes to rock sensations"--
- "Few songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as 'California dreamin',' the iconic folk music single that catapulted the Mamas & the Papas in to rock and roll history. In All the leaves are brown, author Scott Shea details how John Phillips, Denny Doherty, Michelle Phillips, and 'Mama Cass' Elliot becvame standard-bearers for California counterculture, following their transformation from folk music wannabes to rock sensations and chronicling the tumultuous events that followed their unexpected success. ... Drawing on new interviews with former bandmates, session musicians, family members, and many others, All the leaves are brown is a layered, revelatory tale of overnight stardom and its many pitfalls"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-373) and index.
- Call Number
- JME 23-454
- ISBN
- 9781493072118
- 1493072110
- 9781493072125 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022060905
- OCLC
- 1333270856
- Author
- Shea, Scott, author.
- Title
- All the leaves are brown : how the Mamas & the Papas came together and broke apart / Scott G. Shea.
- Publisher
- Essex, Connecticut ; Lanham, MD : Backbeat Books, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-373) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Shea, Scott, All the leaves are brown Lanham : Backbeat, 2023 9781493072125 (DLC) 2022060906
- Research Call Number
- JME 23-454