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The Mamas & The Papas - Greatest Hits (1971)

Track listing:
  1. California Dreamin' 2:38
  2. Go Where You Wanna Go 2:26
  3. Monday, Monday 3:24
  4. I Call Your Name 2:37
  5. Do You Wanna Dance 2:57
  6. I Saw Her Again 3:12
  7. You Baby 2:19
  8. Dancing Bear 4:09
  9. Words of Love 2:14
  10. No Salt on Her Tail 2:40
  11. Look Through My Window 3:06
  12. Dancing in the Street 3:46
  13. Dedicated to the One I Love 2:57
  14. Creeque Alley 3:47
  15. Glad to be Unhappy 1:41
  16. Twist and Shout 2:51
  17. Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon) 3:23

Notes

Not to be confused with earlier hits compilations, the catalog number on this 20-song collection is MCAD-11740. This is the single-CD successor to Creeque Alley, the double-disc career retrospective issued in the early 1990s. All of the hits from "California Dreamin'" to "Dream a Little Dream of Me" are here, along with their more celebrated album tracks, and the notes by Joseph Laredo provide a decent overview of the group's formation and history. The stuff has been remastered yet again, although the level of improvement over Creeque Alley seems modest (Creeque Alley sounded really good) compared with that double disc's improvement over the earlier, wholly inadequate masters from the 1980s. For someone who doesn't have a lot of money to spend on the band, this is the place to start, superseding all other single-disc hits collections.