Go Where You Wanna Go — The Mamas and The Papas / The 5th Dimension

No Words, No Song
7 min readOct 1, 2022
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“Go Where You Wanna Go” is one of pop music’s most pivotal songs — ironically because, at first, it was unsuccessful.

Written by “Papa” John Phillips, The Mamas and The Papas released “Go Where You Wanna Go” in 1965 but despite everyone involved feeling it was a great record, it went precisely nowhere in the charts. Sometimes there’s no accounting…

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No Words, No Song

Without words, it’s just a nice tune. Add words — now you’ve got a song. And songs can change your world. I write about some that changed mine.