Mamas (& Papas) and Mondays in May!
The Mamas & the Papas made radio news commiserating with the lovelorn, as their melancholy
“Monday, Monday” hit
the top of the charts, throughout May 1966.
As early as the May 8th
issue of “The Original Official Top Thirty,” WGH/Tidewater, Virginia, latched on to the song that is
distinguished as the group’s only #1 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Were you listening when Bob “Ol’ Boob” Calvert or Roger “The Lodger” Clark set “Monday,
Monday” to spinning on the turntable?
Or were you in Chicago when WCFL listeners jammed the (Jim) Stagg Line requesting The Mamas and the Papas’ popular song,
keeping it at #1 as late as the May 26th Sound 10 Survey?*
In late May, though no longer
charting at KFWB/98, L.A., The Mamas
and the Papas were front page news in the station’s Hitline newsrag. (Vol. 1, No. 52, May 31, 1966) Were Wink Martindale, Lord Tim and Gene Weed your
fave KFWB heartthrob DJs? Speaking of love …