<P> Later, at a party hosted by the band to celebrate Elliot's acquittal, John Phillips interrupted Elliot as she was telling Mick Jagger about her arrest and trial: "Mick, she's got it all wrong, that's not how it was at all ." Elliot "screamed" at Phillips "before storming out of the room". Elliot was ready to quit, the Royal Albert Hall and Olympia dates were cancelled, and the four went their separate ways; John and Michelle Phillips to Morocco, Doherty back to the United States, and Elliot either back to the United States (according to John Phillips) or to a rendezvous in Paris with Pic Dawson (according to Michelle Phillips). In an interview with Melody Maker, Elliot unilaterally announced that The Mamas and the Papas had disbanded: "We thought this trip would give the group some stimulation, but this has not been so ." </P> <P> In fact, Phillips and Elliot did patch things up sufficiently to complete The Papas & The Mamas, which was released in May 1968 . It was relatively successful in both the UK and US, although it was their first not to go gold or reach the top ten in America . "12: 30 (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)" had been released as a single in August 1967; it peaked at number twenty in the US, but failed to chart in the UK . After the second single, "Safe in My Garden" (May 1968), made it only to number fifty - three, Dunhill released Elliot's solo feature from the album, a remake of "Dream a Little Dream of Me", as a single credited to "Mama Cass with the Mamas and the Papas" in June 1968--against John Phillips' wishes . It reached number twelve in the US and became the band's first single to chart in the UK after five failures, peaking at number eleven . It was the only Mamas and Papas single to chart higher in the UK than in the US . The fourth and final single from The Papas and the Mamas was "For the Love of Ivy" (July 1968), which peaked at number eighty - one in the US and did not chart in the UK . For the second time, Dunhill returned to their earlier work for a single . In this case it was "Do You Wanna Dance" from the debut album, released as a single in October 1968 . It failed to chart in the UK and reached number seventy - six in the US . </P> <P> The success of "Dream a Little Dream of Me" confirmed Elliot's desire to embark on a solo career, and by the end of 1968 it appeared that the group had split . Its chart performance had become increasingly erratic, with three of its last four singles failing on both sides of the Atlantic . As John Phillips recalled, "Times had changed . The Beatles showed the way . Music itself was heading toward a technological and compositional complexity that would leave many of us behind . It was tough to keep up ." The group "made it official" at the beginning of 1969: "Dunhill released us from our contracts and we were history, though we still owed the label another album ." Elliot (billed as Mama Cass) had released her solo debut Dream a Little Dream in 1968, Phillips released John Phillips (John, the Wolf King of L.A.) in 1970, and Denny Doherty followed with Watcha Gonna Do? in 1971 . </P> <P> Dunhill maintained momentum by releasing The Best of the Mamas and the Papas: Farewell to the First Golden Era in 1967, Golden Era Vol. 2 in 1968, 16 of Their Greatest Hits in 1969, and the Monterey live album in 1970 . It was also determined to get the promised last LP, for which it had given the band an extension until September 1971 . It warned that each member of the group would be sued for $250,000 if they did not deliver (about $1.4 million apiece in 2010 values). There was suit and counter suit but these were settled out of court and it was reported that the band would record under John Phillips's own label, Warlock Records, distributed by Dunhill . Phillips wrote another collection of songs, which was arranged, rehearsed, and recorded in fits and starts over about a year, depending on the availability of the other group members: "It was rare we were all together . Most tracks were dubbed, one vocal at a time ." </P>

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