June 1966.

How about some California sound to go with a lovely sunny Sunday morning? Yeah, I thought you might agree.

This was one of only three songs co-written by Denny Doherty and John Phillips, the others being For the Love of Ivy and Got a Feelin‘, and was allegedly inspired by the affair between Doherty and Michelle Phillips (married at the time to John). That affair, along with her dalliance with Gene Clark of The Byrds, led to Michelle’s expulsion from the band for a brief time.

Whilst mixing the recording, engineer Bones Howe inadvertently left in Denny’s miscue on the chorus (the bit where you him go a bit too early with “I saw her…”) but producer Lou Adler insisted that it remained in the recording, and so it did.

Released as the lead single from their eponymous second album, this gave them a top ten hit when it reached number one in the Canadian charts and number five in the US. Here in the UK it spent eleven weeks on the chart and just missed out on the top ten when it peaked at number eleven.