Australian singles charts:
California Dreamin‘ entered the Kent charts on 2 April 1966 and peaked at #87.
Album:
The song is on the 1966 album If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears.
Songwriters:
John Phillips, Michelle Phillips
Producer:
Lou Adler
Wikipedia:
California Dreamin’ was written by John Phillips and Michelle Phillips and was first recorded by Barry McGuire. However, the best-known version is by the Mamas and the Papas, who sang backup on the original version and released it as a single in 1965. The song is #89 in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The lyrics of the song express the narrator’s longing for the warmth of Los Angeles during a cold winter in New York City.
The song became a signpost of the California sound, heralding the arrival of the nascent counterculture era.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Dreamin’
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