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:
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