Words of Love (The Mamas & the Papas song) enough airplay on its own accord to reach #73 on the Billboard Pop Chart. In 1971, Mama Cass featured "Words of Love" as the B-side of one of her UK single releases, "One Way Ticket." This inclusion provided "Words of Love" with additional exposure in Britain given its relatively tepid chart showing five years earlier. Words of Love (The Mamas & the Papas song) "Words of Love" is a song appearing on the album "The Mamas & the Papas". The song was written by John Phillips, and featured Cass Elliot as the primary vocalist. It was released as a single
The Mamas & the Papas album "Romance Is on the Rise" (1974) by his then wife Geneviève Waïte, which he also produced; and he co-wrote "Kokomo" (1988), which was a number-one hit for the Beach Boys. Phillips was lost to heroin addiction through much of the 1970s, a period that culminated in his arrest and conviction in 1980 on a charge of conspiring to distribute narcotics, for which he spent a month in jail in 1981. In later years he performed with the New Mamas and the Papas (see below) and appeared in revival shows and television specials. He told his side of the Mamas