Bubblegum, Lemonade, and... Something for Mama it contained several other types of music, including country, tin pan alley, and jazz. The album came after the disaster of Elliot’s collapse during her Vegas show in 1968. Plagued with bills, the studio executives at Dunhill took creative control and felt that the fastest and easiest solution would be to have Elliot record an album full of music similar to what she had done with The Mamas & the Papas. Steve Barri was appointed by Dunhill to arrange the album and choose the material. The album was a moderate success when first released reaching up to the 91st spot
The Mamas & the Papas peaking at number eleven. It was the only Mamas and Papas single to chart higher in the UK than in the US. The fourth and final single from "Papas & The Mamas" was "For the Love of Ivy" (July 1968), which peaked at number eighty-one in the US and did not chart in the UK. For the second time, Dunhill returned to their earlier work for a single. In this case it was "Do You Wanna Dance" from the debut album, released as a single in October 1968. It failed to chart in the UK and reached number seventy-six in