# The Mamas & the Papas discography

The Mamas & the Papas were a vocal group from Los Angeles, California that was active from 1966 to 1969. Their discography consists of a total of five albums and 17 singles, six of which made the Billboard top ten, and sold close to 40 million records worldwide. "Monday, Monday" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in March 1966 and "California Dreamin'" was the top song on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1966.
The Mamas & the Papas' recordings were released on Dunhill Records until 1967, when the company was sold and the label became ABC-Dunhill. Around 1973, ABC-Dunhill discarded all multi-track session recordings and mono masters because they were deemed obsolete and too expensive to store. The original recordings of the Mamas & the Papas, and of labelmates such as Three Dog Night, are therefore lost, and it has been necessary to create digital versions from the stereo album masters, often second- or third-generation tapes. This is why the sound quality of Mamas and Papas' reissues does not match the best from the 1960s. In 2012, Sundazed Records located a mono master of If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears in the UK and released it on 180-gram vinyl and a limited edition of 500 compact discs. Three years later an extensive search of label archives worldwide turned up all the mono singles and mono LP masters from which the 50th Anniversary 2-CD set was made a year later and reissued for Record Store Day in 2018.
The singles "California Dreamin'", "Dream a Little Dream of Me", and "Monday, Monday" have been certified as 3× platinum, platinum, and gold by the RIAA, respectively.

## Albums
### Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected details, peak chart positions and certifications :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | US | CAN | GER | UK | Certifications |
| If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears | Released: February 1966 Label: Dunhill (D 50006 / DS 50006) | 1 | — | — | 3 | RIAA: Platinum |
| The Mamas & the Papas | Released: September 1966 Label: Dunhill (D 50010 / DS 50010) | 4 | 10 | 14 | 24 | RIAA: Gold |
| Deliver | Released: February 1967 Label: Dunhill (D 50014 / DS 50014) | 2 | 3 | 30 | 4 | RIAA: Gold |
| The Papas & the Mamas | Released: May 1968 Label: Dunhill (DS 50031) | 15 | — | — | — | |
| People Like Us | Released: November 1971 Label: Dunhill (DSX 50106) | 84 | 55 | — | — | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |||||||

### Live albums

List of live albums, with selected details :
| Title | Album details |
| Historic Performances at the Monterey International Pop Festival | Released: 1970 Label: Dunhill (DSX 50100) |
| Greatest Hits: Live in 1982 | Released: 1989 Label: Success (2170CD) |
| Live in Concert | Released: 1991 Label: PolyTel Elite (848 697-2) |
| California Dreamin' | Released: 1997 Label: Prism Leisure (PLATCD 274) |
| Live! | Released: 1999 Label: Pegasus (PEG CD 269) |

### Select compilation albums

List of select compilation albums, with selected details, peak chart positions and certifications :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | US | AUS | BEL (FL) | NL | UK | Certifications |
| Farewell to the First Golden Era | Released: 1967 Label: Dunhill (D 50025 / DS 50025) | 5 | — | — | — | — | RIAA: Gold |
| Golden Era Vol. 2 | Released: 1968 Label: Dunhill (DS 50038) | 53 | — | — | — | — | |
| Hits of Gold | Released: 1969 Label: Stateside (5007) | — | — | — | — | 7 | |
| 16 of Their Greatest Hits | Released: 1969 Label: Dunhill (DS 50064) | 61 | 13 | — | — | — | |
| A Gathering of Flowers | Released: 1970 Label: Dunhill (DSY 50073) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 20 Golden Hits | Released: 1973 Label: Dunhill (DSX 50145) | 186 | — | — | — | — | |
| The Best of the Mamas and the Papas | Released: 1977 Label: Arcade (ADEP 30) | — | — | — | — | 6 | |
| The ABC Collection | Released: 1979 Label: ABC Records (AC-30005) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| The Hit Singles Collection | Released: 1986 Label: MCA (LMCL 521) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| The ★ Collection | Released: 1991 Label: MCA (MCD 17756) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Creeque Alley: The History of the Mamas and the Papas | Released: 1991 Label: MCA (MCAD2-10195) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| California Dreamin': The Very Best of the Mamas and the Papas | Released: 1995 Label: Polygram (5239732) | — | — | 45 | 33 | 14 | |
| California Dreamin': The Greatest Hits of the Mamas and the Papas | Released: 1997 Label: Telstar (TTVCD 2931) | — | — | — | — | 30 | |
| Greatest Hits | Released: 1998 Label: MCA (MCAD-11740) | 123 | — | — | — | — | |
| Before They Were the Mamas & the Papas... The Magic Circle | Released: 1999 Label: Varèse Sarabande (VSD-5996) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Mamas & the Papas | Released: 1999 Label: Geffen, MCA | — | — | — | — | — | RIAA: Gold |
| All the Leaves Are Brown: The Golden Era Collection | Released: 2001 Label: MCA (088 112 653-2) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Complete Anthology (4-disc box set) | Released: 2004 Label: MCA (982 168 0) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Gold | Released: 2005 Label: Geffen (B0002616-02) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| California Dreamin': The Best of the Mamas and the Papas | Released: 2006 Label: UMTV (9841715) | — | — | — | — | 21 | |
| Icon | Released: 2011 Label: Geffen (B0015530-02) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| The Complete Singles (50th Anniversary Collection) | Released: 2016 Label: Real Gone Music (RGM-0418) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Ultimate Anthology | Released: 2016 Label: UMe/Universal Music Special Markets (B0024954-02) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. ||||||||

### Video albums

List of video albums, with selected details :
| Title | Album details |
| Straight Shooter | Released: 1989 Label: Rhino Home Video (RNVD 1931) |
| The Very Best of the Mamas and the Papas | Released: 2001 Label: MVD (MVD 08582) |
| California Dreamin': The Songs of the Mamas and the Papas | Released: 2005 Label: Hip-O (B0004218-09) |
| The Mamas & the Papas & Other '60s Greats | Released: 2005 Label: Eagle Vision/SOFA Home Entertainment (EREDV514) |
| Legends of the Canyon | Released: 2009 Label: Image Entertainment (ID4847ISDVD) |
| The Ed Sullivan Show Presents: The Mamas & the Papas | Released: 2016 Label: SOFA (DVD-MPES) |
| The Ed Sullivan Show Presents: California Dreaming' - The Songs of the Mamas & the Papas | Released: 2016 Label: SOFA/TJL/Treasury Collection (DVD-MP01) |

## Singles

List of singles, with selected peak chart positions and certifications :
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album |
| Title | Year | US | AUS | BEL (FL) | BEL (WA) | CAN | GER | NL | NZ | SA | UK | Certifications | Album |
| "Go Where You Wanna Go" | 1965 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears |
| "California Dreamin'" | 1965 | 4 | 87 | — | — | 3 | 31 | — | 14 | — | 9 | RIAA: 3× Platinum | If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears |
| "Monday, Monday" | 1966 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | RIAA: Gold | If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears |
| "I Saw Her Again" | 1966 | 5 | 9 | — | 47 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 11 | | The Mamas & the Papas |
| "Look Through My Window" | 1966 | 24 | 67 | — | — | 5 | — | — | 18 | — | 53 | | Deliver |
| "Words of Love" | 1966 | 5 | 6 | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | 47 | | The Mamas & the Papas |
| "Dancing in the Street" | 1966 | 73 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | The Mamas & the Papas |
| "Dedicated to the One I Love" | 1967 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 26 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 2 | | Deliver |
| "Creeque Alley" | 1967 | 5 | 4 | — | 26 | 1 | — | — | 16 | 19 | 9 | | Deliver |
| "Twelve Thirty" | 1967 | 20 | 20 | — | — | 14 | — | — | 11 | 16 | 51 | | The Papas & the Mamas |
| "Glad to Be Unhappy" | 1967 | 26 | 55 | — | — | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | | Golden Era Vol. 2 |
| "Dancing Bear" | 1967 | 51 | — | — | — | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | | The Mamas & the Papas |
| "Safe in My Garden" | 1968 | 53 | 86 | — | — | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | | The Papas & the Mamas |
| "Dream a Little Dream of Me" | 1968 | 12 | 1 | — | — | 7 | 5 | — | — | 8 | 11 | RIAA: Platinum | The Papas & the Mamas |
| "For the Love of Ivy" | 1968 | 81 | — | — | — | 55 | — | — | — | — | — | | The Papas & the Mamas |
| "Do You Wanna Dance" | 1968 | 76 | — | — | — | 37 | — | — | — | — | — | | If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears |
| "Step Out" | 1972 | 81 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | People Like Us |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. ||||||||||||||