The Mamas & the Papas on BBC Music called it "a treasure chest of pop gold". In addition to the three documentaries ("Straight Shooter", "California Dreamin" and "Here I Am"), Doherty's musical, and the memoirs by John, Michelle, and Mackenzie Phillips, the group is the subject of Doug Hall's "The Mamas and the Papas: California Dreamin" (2000) and Matthew Greenwald's "Go Where You Wanna Go: The Oral History of the Mamas and the Papas" (2002). Cass Elliot is the subject of Jon Johnson's "Make Your Own Kind of Music: A Career Retrospective of Cass Elliot" (1987) and Eddi Fiegel's "Dream a Little Dream of Me:
The Mamas & the Papas singles charted in the UK. The Mamas & the Papas cut their first three albums at United Western Recorders in Hollywood, while the group's subsequent releases were recorded at the eight-track studio John and Michelle Phillips built at their home in Bel Air (at a time when four-track recording was still the norm). John Phillips said, "I got the idea to transform the attic into my own recording studio, so I could stay high all the time and never have to worry about studio time. I began assembling the state-of-the-art equipment and ran the cost up to about a hundred