Coverville 1546: The Mamas & The Papas Cover Story

Coverville: The Cover Music Show (AAC Edition)

Brian Ibbott

Coverville, Music, Cover

4.9 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

For what would have been John Phillips’ 80th birthday, let’s do a long-awaited cover story for the band! (38 minutes)

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0:00.0	coming up on episode were 1,546, this month would have been John Phillips 80th birthday,
0:09.2	John Phillips, one of the four members, the founding member of the Mamas and the Pappas.
0:14.0	So I don't think I've done a Mamas and the Papa's cover store, at least a full one,
0:18.6	ever on this show.
0:19.8	Maybe there have been, you know, obviously there have been songs here and there, but
0:22.6	let's do a full show.
0:24.6	Let's get to it.
0:25.6	Here is The Mamas and the Papa's cover story.
0:27.5	All of it, all this is more coming up right now on Coverville.
0:31.2	I'm going up right now on Coverville. The times are tough now, just getting tougher.
0:44.6	Whole world is rough.
0:45.8	It's just getting rough.
0:47.6	Cover me.
0:50.2	Come on, baby, cover me.
0:55.4	Well, I'm looking for a little over.
0:58.5	Come on in and cover me.
1:04.7	Greetings from Coverville for a Thursday morning.
1:08.4	It's Thursday, August 21st, 2025.
1:10.5	My name is Brian, and welcome to another edition of Coverville.
1:13.3	Today, the music of the Mamas and the Pappas, sometimes spelled incorrectly with an apostrophe.
1:19.7	Even on some of their albums, they spelled it Mamas possessive and Papa's possessive.
1:24.6	One of my pet peeves just drives me nuts. I don't know. I need to let it go,
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