California Dreaming - Sungha Jung

Sungha plays ’California Dreaming’ arranged by Michael Chapdelaine. “California Dreamin’“ is a popular song by The Mamas the Papas, first released in 1965. The song is #89 in Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[1] The lyrics of the song are about a man in a cold winter landscape longing for the warmth of California. According to John Phillips in a Bravo documentary, and Michelle Phillips in an NPR piece, the song was written in 1963 while they were living in New York. He dreamed about the song and woke her up to help him write it. At the time, the Phillipses were members of the folk group The New Journeymen which evolved into The Mamas the Papas.