The Mamas & The Papas - I Call Your Name

A certain nostalgia for the south de­veloped, but at the same time, the trans­planted Blacks were becoming more soph­isticated, preferring to listen to music played by musicians more sophisticated than the rural blues performers. Thus small blues combos, with piano, guitar, harmonica and other instruments, began to replace the solo performers. From the 40's onwards, they converted to electric in­struments, and began to play a new form of blues, louder, more aggressive, which came to be call­ed urban blues.

After a period of hibernation in the 50's, the growing popularity of blues with young white audiences gave a lot of black blues singers the opportunity to play again on a larger scale, for more money than before.

Source: Music: the story of the Blues by Robert Springer

The Mamas & The Papas - I Call Your Name

• Released in: 1973
• Produced by: Lou Adler
• Genre: Rock

"The Mamas & The Papas recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968, releasing five albums and charting ten hit singles, spending relatively a short time in the realm of popular music."

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