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 critical favor. "Rolling Stone" gave it four stars when it was reissued in 2006, calling it "a genuine lost treasure". Denny Doherty said that if the Mamas & the Papas had recorded the album, it might have been their best. Phillips wrote songs for the soundtrack to "Brewster McCloud" (Robert Altman, 1970) and original music for the soundtracks to "Myra Breckinridge" (Michael Sarne, 1970) and "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (Nicolas Roeg, 1976). He also wrote the ill-fated stage musical "Man on the Moon" (1975) and songs with and for other artists, including most of the tracks on the