If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears

Infobox Album | Name = If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
Type = Album
Artist = The Mamas and the Papas


Released = March 1966
Genre = Pop rock, folk rock, psychedelic pop
Length = 33:42
Recorded = 1965—1966
Label = Dunhill
Producer = Lou Adler
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:73o20r4ac48n link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/themamasthepapas/albums/album/243864/review/5944350/if_you_can_believe_your_eyes__ears link]
Last album =
This album = "If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears"
(1966)
Next album = "The Mamas & the Papas"
(1966)

"If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears" is the 1966 debut album by The Mamas & the Papas (spelled "The Mama's and the Papa's" on the cover). RS500|127

Album covers

"If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears" is one of the first albums to have several different covers. The first cover featured the group in a bathroom sitting in a bathtub with a toilet in the corner. The album with this cover was pulled from stores after the toilet was declared indecent. The remaining covers featuring the toilet have since become collector's items. A second album cover was then released with a scroll over the toilet listing the presence of "California Dreamin'" on the album. Two more songs were later added to the scroll/box over the toilet. Still later, a Gold Record Award blurb was added (in black) to the left of the group. Finally, a later album covers were released with a closely cropped shot of the band surrounded by a black border that removed any hint that the picture was taken in a bathroom.

Track listing

# "Monday, Monday" - 3:27
# "Straight Shooter" - 3:27
# "Got a Feelin'" - 2:31
# "I Call Your Name" - 2:39
# "Do You Wanna Dance?" - 2:57
# "Go Where You Wanna Go" - 2:30
# "California Dreamin'" - 2:41
# "Spanish Harlem" - 3:21
# "Somebody Groovy" - 3:15
# "Hey Girl" - 2:27
# "You Baby" - 2:19
# "The 'In' Crowd" - 3:10

Chart positions

External links

* [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6598702 "Rolling Stone" 500 greatest albums of all time listing]
* [http://www.bsnpubs.com/abc/dunhill.html About the album's cover]

succession box
before = "Ballads of The Green Berets" by SSgt. Barry Sadler
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album
years = May 21 - May 27 1966
after = "What Now My Love"
by Herb Alpert and His Tijuana Brass