The Mugwumps

The Mugwumps were an American band, 1964 by Denny Doherty, Cass Elliot, Zal Yanovsky and James "Jim" Hendricks was founded in New York's Greenwich Village. John Sebastian also played occasionally, with in the group.

History

After the folk group The Big 3, which had consisted of Elliot, Doherty and Tim Rose and won the New York area in popularity in 1963 was broken apart, Cass and Doherty joined in the same year Yanovski and Hendricks to the group Mugwumps together. Also in 1963 married the band members Elliot and Hendricks. The music of the Mugwumps can be characterized as a folk -based pop music. An early 1964 single released by Warner Brothers Records was unsuccessful. In August 1964, the material was recorded for an album that was not released because the group disbanded shortly afterwards. Only against the background of the later successes of the members of the Mugwumps, the album was released in 1967.

End of 1964, Elliot and Doherty joined with John Phillips and Michelle Gilliam along to the group The New Journeymen which renamed itself in 1965 in The Mamas and the Papas.

James "Jim" Hendricks made ​​a career as a songwriter and country singer, for example, he wrote the hit for Johnny Rivers Summer Rain and took over fifty albums of folk and country music.

The group Mugwumps was only a short time, but was the breeding ground for two successful bands: 1965 founded Sebastian and Yanovsky The Lovin ' Spoonful, while Phillips, Elliot and Doherty achieved worldwide success with the Mamas & Papas.

The music historical significance of the Mugwumps is that traditional folk singer from the Greenwich Village through their approach to pop music attempted commercialization and thus a broader impact of folk music. The two resulting from the Mugwumps folk-rock groups Lovin ' Spoonful and the Mamas & Papas path to the popularization and commercialization of folk music has been consistently trod.

Discography

Singles

  • I Do not Wanna Know b / w I'll Remember Tonight (1964, Warner Bros. 5471 )
  • Searchin ' b / w Here It Is Another Day (1967, Warner Bros. 7018 )

Album

The Mugwumps 1967 ( Warner Bros., U.S. and UK catalog number WS 1697 )

Instrumentation: Cass Elliot (vocals), Denny Doherty (vocals), Zal Yanovsky (guitar, vocals), James Hendricks (guitar)

Recorded in August 1964, produced by Roy Silver and Bob Cavallo.

  • A-side: Searchin ', I Do not Wanna Know, I'll Remember Tonight, Here It Is Another Day, Do You Know What I Mean
  • B-side: You Can not Judge a Book By the Cover, Everybody's Been Talkin ', Do What They Do not Say, So Fine
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