If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears

If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
the band members all squashed into a bathtub together; a toilet is prominently visible to the right
Studio album by
the Mamas and the Papas
ReleasedFebruary 28, 1966
RecordedOctober–December 1965
Genre
Length33:42
LabelDunhill
ProducerLou Adler
The Mamas and the Papas chronology
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
(1966) 		The Mamas & the Papas
(1966)
Singles from If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
  1. "Go Where You Wanna Go"
    Released: 1965
  2. "California Dreamin'"
    Released: December 8, 1965
  3. "Monday, Monday"
    Released: March 1966
Audio
"Entire Album" playlist on YouTube

If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears is the debut album from vocal group The Mamas & the Papas (stylized as The Mama's and the Papa's [sic]), released on February 28, 1966. The stereo mix of the album is included on All the Leaves are Brown (2001), a double CD compilation consisting of the band's first four albums and various singles, as well as on The Mamas & the Papas Complete Anthology (2004), a four-CD box set released in the UK. The mono mix of the album was remastered and reissued on vinyl by Sundazed Records in 2010, and on CD the following year. It is the band's only album to reach number one on the Billboard 200.

In 2003, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears was ranked number 127[3] on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, with its rank rising to number 112 in the 2012 revision.[4]

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  2. ^ Harcourt, Nic (2005). "Living in Perfect Harmony". Music Lust. Seattle: Sasquatch Books. p. 120. ISBN 1570614377.
  3. ^ Levy, Joe; Steven Van Zandt (2006) [2005]. "127 | If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears - The Mamas and the Papas". Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (3rd ed.). London: Turnaround. ISBN 1-932958-61-4. OCLC 70672814. Archived from the original on 2 November 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2005.
  4. ^ "500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". Rolling Stone. 2012. Retrieved September 19, 2019.