Michelle Phillips (Part 1)

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the first part of a 2-part episode, singer, actress and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Michelle Phillips looks back on her seven decades in the entertainment business and regales Gilbert and Frank with tales of the wild days and crazy nights of The Mamas and the Papas, one of the most successful, influential (and short-lived) groups in pop music history. Also in this episode: Cass Elliot beats the rap, Marshall Brickman co-writes "Annie Hall," Michelle dates Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson and The Mamas and the Papas meet the Fab Four. PLUS: "Shampoo"! The genius of Lou Adler! The Halifax Three! Reginald Van Gleason! And Michelle discusses the stories behind "Creeque Alley," "Go Where You Wanna Go" and "I Saw Her Again"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.9	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast
1:19.8	with my co-hosts, Frank Santopadre. I guess this week is a songwriter, TV and film actor,
1:27.7	a Grammy-winning vocalist, a member of the rock and roll whole of fame and a founding
1:34.1	member of one of the most successful and influential and volatile groups in the history of popular
1:44.1	music from the years 1965 to 1968. She and her famous mates, John Phillips, Cass Elliott
1:55.8	and Danny Dirty, recorded hit after hit, including Monday Monday, Words of Love. I saw
2:04.2	her again, 1230, Go where you want to go, and one of the most defining anthems of the
2:14.2	folk rock era, California dreaming, a song that yields so cold. As an actress, she's
2:23.0	appeared in feature films like Valentino Dillinger, Savage Harvest, Let It Ride, Bloodline
2:31.8	and notable TV series like The Loveboat, Mertishu Road Hotel, Star Trek, The Next Generation,
2:42.4	Spin City, Seventh Heaven and The Skeaming and Matheson Sumner on the hit from a Nutslanding
2:53.8	which scored her an award as best villainess from soap opera digest. In 1998, she was
3:05.5	a inducted along with her surviving bandmates into the rock and roll whole of fame for their
3:13.9	numerous contributions to the music industry. She can also be seen in two recent documentaries
3:22.2	about the center of the 1960s music revolution, 2018's Echo in the Canyon and 2020's two
3:36.8	part docu series Laurel Canyon. She's also the author of a terrific memoir and one you
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