The Mamas and Papas Live Recording: The Charles Lewis Tapes

The Charles Lewis Tape collection features countless professional live raw recordings of some of the biggest names in music.Complete and unedited since the performance this one tape includes audio of a live concert by The Mamas and the Papas. The audio was taken off the board by the sound engineer Charles Lewis.Tape measures 7.5" in diameter and box measures 11.75".

Tape features about an hour of audio and includes the songs:
1.Straight Shooter
2.Got a Feeln'
3.California Dreamin'
4.Words of Love
5.Creek Alley - partial
6.Monday Monday

Chuck Lewis started his career in sound in the late fifties at Otto K. Olsen in Hollywood. While working there, he was the soundman/sound mixer for red carpet premiers at Grauman's Theater. In the sixties, Chuck was in charge of working at and overseeing performances at both the Hollywood Bowl and the Music Center. Chuck did sound for all types of performances; rock, jazz, classical, stand up, and theater. He worked with everyone from the Beatles to Baryshnikov. Chuck did have his favorites some of which were Robert Goulet, Groucho Marx, Don Rickles, Frank Sinatra, and Florence Henderson. In his later years, he worked solely for the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion as sound director and over-seeing the Center Theater Group.

Several years after Chuck's passing his children started to clear out his garage. Chuck had a sound rental business for a few years after he retired and his children were selling the sound equipment. They came across several boxes of reel to reel tapes that they had no idea existed. Among these tapes there was everything from rock, jazz, stand up,classical, and plays. These tapes feature live recordings that have gone untouched and unheard for 45 years or more.

The Mamas & the Papas were an American folk rock vocal group that recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968, and were a defining force in the music scene of the Counterculture of the 1960s. The band reunited briefly in 1971. The group was composed of John Phillips, Denny Doherty, Cass Elliot, and Michelle Phillips nee Gilliam. Their sound was based on vocal harmonies arranged by John Phillips,the songwriter, musician, and leader of the group who adapted folk to the new beat style of the early sixties.

They released a total of five studio albums and seventeen singles over a four-year period, six of which made the Billboard top ten, and have sold close to 40 million records worldwide.The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 for their contributions to the music industry.

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