Mugwumps CD Finally Being Reissued
05/10/07
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(PR) The Mugwumps are best known as the band immortalized in autobiographical song by the Mamas & the Papas. Many know of them, but few have heard their one 1967 album for Warner Bros. Records. Until now, that is, as Collectors� Choice Music prepares its June 5 reissue of The Mugwumps� self-titled album.
�This was the first folk-rock group ever,� Cass Elliot boasted to Johnny Carson about The Mugwumps. In a sense it�s true. Born of the late Greenwich Village folk scene just as many of its proponents prepared to colonize Laurel Canyon, the band consisted of Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty (later of the Mamas & the Papas), Zalman Yanovsky (future guitarist for the Lovin� Spoonful) and Jim Hendricks. A small amount of cross-pollination occurred in the group�s formation: Cass and her erstwhile husband Jim had been in Cass Elliot & the Big Three, a progressive folk outfit. Canadians Denny and Zal hailed from The Haliax Three, a more traditional folk trio. In early �64, Zal and Denny launched a rock alter ego called The Noise. Also in �64, Cass introduced Zal to John Sebastian by claiming Ringo Starr was with her. A historic connection was made as Zal and John went off to form the Lovin� Spoonful, while Cass and Denny joined John & Michelle Phillips to form the Mamas & the Papas, who pioneered rock�s �California Dreamin�� era.
The Mugwumps� name was given to them by producer Erik Jacobsen, who heard them at the skid row flophouse known as the Hotel Albert in Greenwich Village, where the members made their home. A mugwump is a fence-sitter who can�t make up his mind � mug on one side, wump on the other side.
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