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California Dreamin'

Index California Dreamin'

"California Dreamin is a song written by John Phillips and Michelle Phillips and was first recorded by Barry McGuire. [1]

87 relations: Adult Contemporary (chart), Al Jardine, Alto flute, America (band), American International Pictures, Ballad of the Green Berets, Barry McGuire, BBC, Billboard Hot 100, Bobby Womack, Bud Shank, California Dreamin', California Dreaming (1979 film), California Sound, Capitol Records, Carl Wilson, Carling O'Keefe, Casablanca Records, Cashbox (magazine), Cass Elliot, Counterculture of the 1960s, Cover band, Dan Peek, Dance Club Songs, Denny Doherty, Dewey Bunnell, Disaster film, Discogs, DJ Sammy, Dotdash, Dunhill Records, Fly Me to the Moon (Bobby Womack album), Folk rock, Gerry Beckley, Go Where You Wanna Go, Grammy Hall of Fame, Highway (America album), Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, In Concert (1995 America album), John Phillips (musician), Kokomo (song), Lady Lynda, List of number-one dance singles of 2016 (U.S.), Little Richard, Liverpool, London Central Elementary High School, Los Angeles, Lou Adler, Made in U.S.A. (The Beach Boys album), ..., Michelle Phillips, Monday, Monday, Music recording certification, Myspace, New York City, Official Charts Company, Ogg, P. F. Sloan, Pete Frame, Phonograph record, Recording Industry Association of America, River City People, Rock 'n' Roll to the Rescue, Rock music, Roger McGuinn, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, Royal Gigolos, San Andreas (film), Sia (musician), Silent Letter (album), Soft rock, St. Martin's Press, Sunshine pop, Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique, Terry Melcher, Thank God It's Friday (film), The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Complete Greatest Hits (America album), The Dead Milkmen, The Mamas & the Papas, The Wrecking Crew (music), Twelve-string guitar, UK Singles Chart, You Can Do Magic (song), 1965 in music. Expand index (37 more) »

Adult Contemporary (chart)

The Adult Contemporary chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary radio stations in the United States.

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Al Jardine

Alan Charles Jardine (born September 3, 1942) is an American musician, singer and songwriter, who co-founded the Beach Boys.

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Alto flute

The alto flute is a type of Western concert flute, a musical instrument in the woodwind family.

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America (band)

America is a British-American rock band formed in England in 1970 by Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek, and Gerry Beckley.

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American International Pictures

A typical AIP double feature that inspired the idea for Grindhouse. --> American International Pictures (AIP) was a film production and distribution company formed on April 2, 1954 as American Releasing Corporation (ARC) by James H. Nicholson, former Sales Manager of Realart Pictures, and Samuel Z. Arkoff, an entertainment lawyer.

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Ballad of the Green Berets

"The Ballad of the Green Berets" is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the Green Berets, an elite special force in the U.S. Army.

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Barry McGuire

Barry McGuire (born October 15, 1935) is an American singer-songwriter.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bobby Womack

Robert Dwayne Womack (March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Bud Shank

Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist.

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California Dreamin'

"California Dreamin is a song written by John Phillips and Michelle Phillips and was first recorded by Barry McGuire.

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California Dreaming (1979 film)

California Dreaming is a 1979 American comedy-drama film starring Glynnis O'Connor, Dennis Christopher, Seymour Cassel and Tanya Roberts and directed by John D. Hancock.

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California Sound

The California Sound is a popular music aesthetic that originates with American pop and rock recording artists from Southern California in the 1960s.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Carl Wilson

Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys.

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Carling O'Keefe

Carling O'Keefe was a brewing conglomerate in Canada.

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Casablanca Records

Casablanca Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated under Republic Records.

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cash Box is a music industry trade magazine iconic brand.

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Cass Elliot

Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen; September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), also known as Mama Cass, was an American singer and actress, best known as a member of the Mamas & the Papas.

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Counterculture of the 1960s

The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) and then spread throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, with London, New York City, and San Francisco being hotbeds of early countercultural activity.

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Cover band

A cover band (or covers band), is a band that plays mostly or exclusively cover songs.

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Dan Peek

Daniel Milton "Dan" Peek (November 1, 1950 – July 24, 2011) was a musician best known as a member of the folk rock band America from 1970 to 1977, together with Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell.

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Dance Club Songs

The Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly chart published exclusively by Billboard in the United States.

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Denny Doherty

Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty (November 29, 1940 – January 19, 2007) was a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician and actor.

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Dewey Bunnell

Lee Martin "Dewey" Bunnell (born 19 January 1952) is a British-American musician, singer, guitarist, and songwriter, best known as a member of the folk rock band America.

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Disaster film

A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a website and crowdsourced database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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DJ Sammy

Samuel Bouriah (born 19 October 1969), better known by his stage name DJ Sammy, is a Spanish DJ and record producer.

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Dotdash

Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its "topic sites", of which there are nearly 1,000.

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Dunhill Records

Dunhill Records was started in 1964 by Lou Adler, Al Bennett, Pierre Cossette and Bobby Roberts as Dunhill Productions to release the music of Johnny Rivers on Imperial Records.

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Fly Me to the Moon (Bobby Womack album)

Fly Me to the Moon is the debut studio album by American musician Bobby Womack.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Gerry Beckley

Gerald Linford "Gerry" Beckley (born September 12, 1952, in Fort Worth, Texas) is a founding member of the band America.

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Go Where You Wanna Go

"Go Where You Wanna Go" is a 1965 song written by John Phillips.

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Grammy Hall of Fame

The Grammy Hall of Fame is a hall of fame to honor musical recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

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Highway (America album)

Highway: 30 Years Of America is the third principal major label compilation album by American folk rock duo America, released by Rhino Records in 2000 (see 2000 in music).

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears

If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears is the 1966 debut album by The Mamas & the Papas (erroneously spelled "The Mama's and the Papa's" on the cover).

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In Concert (1995 America album)

In Concert is the third officially released live album by American folk rock duo America, released by King Biscuit Records in 1995.

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John Phillips (musician)

John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and promoter, most notably of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, a landmark event of the counterculture era and the Summer of Love.

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Kokomo (song)

"Kokomo" is a song written by John Phillips, Scott McKenzie, Mike Love, and Terry Melcher and recorded by American rock band the Beach Boys.

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Lady Lynda

"Lady Lynda" is a song written by vocalist and guitarist Alan Jardine and Ron Altbach for the American rock band The Beach Boys.

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List of number-one dance singles of 2016 (U.S.)

This is a list of the United States Billboard Dance Club Songs number one hits of 2016.

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Little Richard

Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known as Little Richard, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, and actor.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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London Central Elementary High School

London Central Elementary High School was a United States Department of Defense Dependents School (DoDDS) in the Isles District of DoDDS Europe for pupils in kindergarten through grade 12.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Lou Adler

Lou Adler (born December 13, 1933) is an American record producer, music executive, talent manager, songwriter, film director, film producer, and co-owner of the famous Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California.

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Made in U.S.A. (The Beach Boys album)

Made in U.S.A. is a 1986 double vinyl album (or one-CD) compilation of some of The Beach Boys' biggest successes.

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Michelle Phillips

Michelle Phillips (born Holly Michelle Gilliam; June 4, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter and actress.

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Monday, Monday

"Monday, Monday" is a 1966 song written by John Phillips and recorded by the Mamas & the Papas using background instruments played by members of The Wrecking Crew for their 1966 album If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Myspace

Myspace (stylized as MySpace) is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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P. F. Sloan

P.

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Pete Frame

Peter 'Pete' Frame (born 10 November 1942 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England) is an English music journalist and historian of rock music.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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River City People

River City People were a folk rock quartet formed in Liverpool, England in 1986, by vocalist Siobhan Maher, guitarist Tim Speed, his drummer brother Paul Speed, and bassist Dave Snell.

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Rock 'n' Roll to the Rescue

"Rock 'n' Roll to the Rescue" is a single released by The Beach Boys on June 9, 1986.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Roger McGuinn

James Roger McGuinn (born James Joseph McGuinn III; July 13, 1942), known professionally as Roger McGuinn and previously as Jim McGuinn, is an American musician.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone, issue number 963, published in December 2004, a year after the magazine published its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

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Royal Gigolos

Royal Gigolos were a German pumptech group, formed in late 2003 and dissolved in 2008 by the producers DJ Tyson and DJ Kosmonova with the vocalists Melanie and Jay, and later after 2008 with Lauren Dyson and Thorsten Kaiser.

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San Andreas (film)

San Andreas is a 2015 American disaster film directed by Brad Peyton and written by Carlton Cuse, with Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore receiving story credit.

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Sia (musician)

Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer-songwriter, record producer and music video director.

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Silent Letter (album)

Silent Letter is the eighth studio album by American folk rock duo America, released by Capitol Records in June 1979.

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Soft rock

Soft rock (or lite rock) is a subgenre of pop rock that largely features acoustic guitars and slow-to-mid tempos.

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St. Martin's Press

St.

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Sunshine pop

Sunshine pop (originally called soft pop) is a lightly produced subgenre of pop music that originated in Southern California in the mid 1960s.

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Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique

The National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique; SNEP) is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry.

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Terry Melcher

Terrence Paul Melcher (born Terrence Paul Jorden, February 8, 1942 – November 19, 2004) was an American musician and record producer who was instrumental in shaping the 1960s California Sound and folk rock movements, particularly during the nascent counterculture era.

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Thank God It's Friday (film)

Thank God It's Friday is a 1978 American musical disco comedy film directed by Robert Klane and produced by Motown Productions and Casablanca FilmWorks for Columbia Pictures (whose torch-holding mascot, in a specially produced animation, dances to disco music before the opening credits).

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Byrds

The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964.

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The Complete Greatest Hits (America album)

The Complete Greatest Hits is the fourth principal major label greatest hits album by American folk rock duo America, released by Rhino Records in 2001.

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The Dead Milkmen

The Dead Milkmen are an American punk rock band formed in 1983 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Mamas & the Papas

The Mamas & the Papas were a Canadian-American folk rock vocal group who recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968.

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The Wrecking Crew (music)

The Wrecking Crew was a loose collective of session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and early 1970s, including several hundred Top 40 hits.

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Twelve-string guitar

The 12-string guitar is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a richer, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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You Can Do Magic (song)

"You Can Do Magic" is a song by singer-songwriter Russ Ballard which was recorded as a 1982 single by folk rock duo America from their album View from the Ground.

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1965 in music

List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1965.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Dreamin'

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