Monday, Monday

"Monday, Monday" is a 1966 song written by John Phillips and recorded by the Mamas & the Papas for their 1966 album If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears. It was the group's only number one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.[1]

Phillips said that he wrote the song quickly, in about 20 minutes.[2]  This song includes a false ending, when there is a pause before the coda of the song, and goes up a half note for the bridges and refrains of the song. It was the second consecutive number one hit song in the U.S. to contain a false ending, succeeding Good Lovin' by the Young Rascals.

On March 2, 1967, The Mamas & the Papas won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for this song.

Arguably the best live or studio version of the song was performed at the Monterey Rock Festival (California) in 1967. [3]  The performance was recorded for film at the time but not in a solo album. [4]

The song appears on the soundtrack of Michael Apted's Stardust.



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 * 2 Cover versions
 * 3 References in popular culture
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links
 * 7" Vinyl
 * 1) "Monday, Monday" (Phillips) — 3:27
 * 2) "Got a Feelin'" (Doherty, Phillips) — 2:44
 * Petula Clark on her album I Couldn't Live Without Your Love (1966)
 * The Beau Brummels on their album Beau Brummels '66 (1966)
 * Neil Diamond on The Feel of Neil Diamond (1966)
 * Jay and the Americans on their album Livin Above Your Head (1966)
 * Sérgio Mendes on his instrumental album The Great Arrival (1966)
 * Marianne Faithfull on Faithfull Forever (1966)
 * Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass on their album The Beat of the Brass (1968)
 * Ed Ames from the album Who Will Answer? and Other Songs of our Time (1968)
 * The Cowsills on The Johnny Cash Show
 * The 5th Dimension on their album, The 5th Dimension/Live!! (1971)
 * Dionne Warwick on Only Love Can Break A Heart (previously unreleased recording)(1977)
 * Galenskaparna och After Shave Swedish translation Bandy. Bandy (1988)
 * The Adventures on Lions and Tigers and Bears (1993)
 * Hear'Say on Popstars (2001)
 * Wilson Phillips three times: a modern rock take on their album, California (2004) and an a cappella single version the same year, and a straightforward take paying tribute to the original on albumDedicated (2012)
 * Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs on their album, Under the Covers, Vol. 1 (2006)
 * Foxes and Fossils on A Curious Mix (2012)
 * ESPN announcer Chris Berman referred to Rick Monday as "Monday, Monday."
 * The Mamas and the Papas' version of Monday, Monday is heard in a chase scene in the 2010 movie The Other Guys.
 * The song is used in one of the Discovery Channel's promos for the reality TV series Dirty Jobs, which ran for 8 seasons.
 * The Daredevil villain, Typhoid Mary, sings this song while fighting Yakuza.
 * Episode 126 of the Disney animated series Recess is entitled "Mundy,Mundy" as a reference to the song, due to the episode's focus on a bully named Mundy who saves a child from being hit by a playground ball.