Episode 151: “San Francisco” by Scott McKenzie
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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Adler's California Dreamin Was a Solo Composition
mc guire was also hanging round with elliot and hendrik, and decided that he wanted to have luadler hear the four of them. He thought they might be useful, both as backing vocalists on his second album and as a source of new songs. The group were excellent vocalists but adler found michel phillips extremely attractive. And the second is a song that john and michel had written, which he thought might be very suitable for mc guire's album. Most people who knew john phillips think of california dreamin as a solo composition. But michel has been very insistent that she wrote the livics to the second
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