TOP 100 SONGS OF 1967 ― NUMBER 54

50 years ago this year these songs were released. I took the top 100 from Rolling Stone for 1967 and put them in the order in which I think they should have listed, since this was the decade of the music I grew up on. Enough of the formalities, here we go. Enjoy.

DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE ― THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS

GENRE ― Pop / Soul



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"Dedicated to the One I Love" is a song written by Lowman Pauling and Ralph Bass which was a hit for the "5" Royales, the Shirelles and the Mamas & the Papas. Pauling was the guitarist of The "5" Royales, the group that recorded the original version of the song, produced by Bass, in 1957. Their version was re-released in 1961 and charted at number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Mamas and The Papas version ― 

A subsequent and more popular cover version by the Mamas & the Papas[1] released on the Dunhill label went to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967. This version also reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The lead singer on the Mamas & the Papas version was Michelle Phillips. It was the first time that Phillips was given the lead over Cass Elliot. The song was also included on the group's 1967 album The Mamas & The Papas Deliver.

While the song mixes of the group's singles differ significantly from their album counterparts with some frequency ("Words of Love" and "Creeque Alley," in particular, feature overdubbed instruments that don't appear on the album versions of the songs), "Dedicated to the One I Love" used the same mix for both single and album. However, there are differing versions of the song available. The original single and album releases had a running time of 2:54, and featured a double-tracked lead vocal, as well as a prominent piano track. A shorter version of the song, which the band can be seen lip-synching to on various television shows in the sixties, has a running time of only 2:12, because it omits the only occurrence of the song's verse, as well as the subsequent chorus, and instead goes straight into the instrumental bridge. In this mix the piano is less prominent and only one of Michelle Phillips' vocal tracks is audible.

In 1992, the long-running CBS nighttime soap opera Knots Landing, in which Michelle Phillips starred, named an episode "Dedicated to the One I Love", in which the Mamas & the Papas version of the song is played in the background.

The Mamas & the Papas version is played at the end of the last scene and during the credits of the 2014 movie The One I Love. In D-TV Disney, the Mamas and the Papas' version was also set to Sleeping Beauty.

Other versions ― 

• 1965: Johnny Preston released a version of the song as the B-side of his single "Running Bear '65".
• 1965: Reparata and the Delrons covered the song on their LP Whenever a Teenager Cries.
• 1967: The Lettermen released a version of the song on their album Spring!
• 1968: The O'Kaysions released a version of the song on their debut album, Girl Watcher and as the B-side of their single, "Love Machine".
• 1972: The Temprees' version reached number 17 on the US R&B chart and number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100.
• 1973: Ruben and the Jets released it on their album For Real!
• 1981: Bernadette Peters recorded a Hot 100 hit version, which reached number 65.
• 1994: Bitty McLean recorded a reggae remake, which reached number 6 on the UK Singles Chart.[13]
• 1996: Linda Ronstadt made it the title song of her album Dedicated to the One I Love.
• 1998: Tanya Stephens included the song on her album Ruff Rider.
• 2000: Holly Cole included the song on her album Romantically Helpless.
• 2001: Rosie & the Originals recorded an a cappella version for their album Angel Baby Revisited.
• 2007: Renée Geyer recorded a version on her album Dedicated.
• 2013: Wilson Phillips included it on their album Dedicated.

The song in popular culture ― 

• In the 1980s, a version of the song was used in a Kellogg's Special K commercial.
• In an episode of the television show China Beach, the actress Chloe Webb, portraying a USO touring backup singer, offers a tender and emotional version of the song to a fatally injured soldier as a last request as he is dying.
• The song was used in a scene in the 1986 film House.
• The song was used in the last scene and fade-out of the 2002 movie Morvern Callar.
• In 2005, the song was covered by the final 10 of the second season of New Zealand Idol.

From Wikipedia and Google (image)