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"Go Where You Wanna Go " is a 1965 song written by John Phillips . It was originally recorded by The Mamas & the Papas on their LP If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears and given limited release as a single. However, the record was withdrawn, and its A-side[2] was reassigned to "California Dreamin' ."[3] "Go Where You Wanna Go" was later made into a hit by The 5th Dimension .
P.F. Sloan played guitar on the song. John Phillips said that he wrote it about Michelle Phillips ' affair with Russ Titelman , a songwriter and record producer.[4]
The Fifth Dimension version
The 5th Dimension recorded "Go Where You Wanna Go" for their debut studio album in 1967, Up, Up and Away . The song was the group's first single, and reached number 16 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 . It also did well in Canada. It is among the group's 10 biggest hits.
Producer Johnny Rivers suggested the group record the song.[5] According to Marilyn McCoo , "the record company wasn't going to release it as a single, but we put our whole thing into it, released it and it was a hit".[5]
Chart performance
References
^ Encyclopaedia Universalis (October 27, 2015). Dictionnaire des Musiciens: (Les Dictionnaires d'Universalis) . Encyclopaedia Universalis. p. 3635. ISBN 978-2-85229-140-9 .
^ "Go Where You Wanna Go/Somebody Groovy - The Mama's And The Papa's" . 45cat. Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ "California Dreamin'/Somebody Groovy - The Mama's And The Papa's" . 45cat. Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
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^ a b Moses, Ann (February 14, 1970). "Love Keeps Us 5th Dimensions Together says Marilyn" . New Musical Express . Retrieved April 25, 2019 – via Rock's Backpages .
^ "CHUM Hit Parade - Week of March 06, 1967" . Archived from the original on November 7, 2006. Retrieved April 6, 2017 . Chart No. 524. CHUM .
^ "RPM 100 ", RPM Weekly , Volume 7, No. 2, March 11, 1967. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002
^ Cash Box Top 100 , Cash Box , March 4, 1967. p. 4. Accessed April 6, 2017.
^ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X .
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