Safe in My Garden Safe in My Garden "Safe in My Garden" is a song written by John Phillips, and recorded by The Mamas and the Papas. The single was briefly in the Top 100 pop chart in the United States. AllMusic.com calls the song "One of the group's finest latter-day records." After Cass Elliot left the group temporarily in 1967, she returned in 1968 to complete their fourth album, The Papas & The Mamas. While the 1967 single Twelve Thirty appears on the album and was intended to be the first single for the fourth album, nearly a year had passed between its
The Mamas & the Papas (album) quickly reinstated. Copies of the rare "Crashon" pressings are now highly sought after collectors items. The album was first issued on CD in 1988 (MCAD-31043) and also appears in its entirety on "All the Leaves Are Brown", a retrospective compilation of the band's first four albums, with the single versions of "I Saw Her Again" and "Words of Love". All songs by John Phillips, unless otherwise noted. The Mamas & the Papas (album) The Mamas & the Papas is the self-titled second studio album by The Mamas & the Papas, released in 1966. The album peaked at number 4 on