Best Mamas and Papas: I Call Your Name
Their harmonies were just awesome.
Words of love, so soft and tender
Won’t win a girl’s heart anymore
If you love her then you must send her
Somewhere where she’s never been before
Worn out phrases and longin’ gazes
Won’t get you where you want to go, no
Words of love, soft and tender
Won’t win her
You oughta know by now
You oughta know, you oughta know by now
Words of love, soft and tender
Won’t win her anymore
You oughta know by now
You oughta know, you oughta know by now
Words of love, soft and tender
Won’t win a girl’s heart anymore
If you love her then you must send her
Somewhere where she’s never been before
Worn out phrases and longin’ gazes
Won’t get you where you want to go
Words of love, soft and tender
Won’t win her anymore, anymore
That got a lot of airplay out here on Boss Radio 93 KHJ as well at “KFWB, Channel 98!” and KRLA (the 50,000-watt rock blaster at 1110 kilocycles, not today’s conservative talk station at 870 kcs). And it brings back memories—the 1967 Rose Bowl, which the Purdue Boilermakers hung on to win after a USC Trojan two-point conversion attempt failed, and the Super Bowl, now designated Super Bowl I, which, because it didn’t sell out, was blacked out on local TV—the Super Blackout as it was dubed.
FunFact: Cass Elliot was reported to have had an IQ of 165!