Dream a Little Dream of Me 1968 album release "The Papas & The Mamas". The group had often sung the song for fun, having been familiarized with it by member Michelle Phillips, whose father had been friends with the song's co-writer, Fabian Andre, in Mexico City where Michelle Phillips' family had resided when she was a young girl. "Mama" Cass Elliot suggested to group leader John Phillips that the group record "Dream a Little Dream of Me". According to him she was unhappy while recording the song, objecting to its campiness. However, Elliot herself would later tell "Melody Maker": "I tried to sing it like it
The Mamas & the Papas discography recordings of The Mamas and the Papas, and of labelmates such as Three Dog Night, are therefore lost, and it has been necessary to create digital versions from the stereo album masters, often second- or third-generation tapes. This is why the sound quality of Mamas and Papas' reissues does not match the best from the 1960s. In 2012, Sundazed Records located a mono master of "If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears" in the UK and released it on 180-gram vinyl and a limited edition of 500 compact discs. The singles "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday" have both been