{"id":5848,"date":"2012-04-25T10:25:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2012-04-25T10:26:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:26:20","slug":"wilson-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/wilson-phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"WILSON PHILLIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WILSON PHILLIPS \u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Three members of classic pop royalty dedicate an album to the ones they love\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The members of Wilson Phillips first drew worldwide attention for their quintuple-platinum 1990 self-titled debut\u2014and for their status as rock royalty. Sisters Wendy and Carnie Wilson were the daughters of Beach Boy Brian Wilson, while Chynna Phillips\u2019 parents were John and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas. The group has always avoided leaning too much on its famous lineage\u2014which may be why the three have only now recorded Dedicated<\/em>, an album of songs associated with their famous forebears. \u201cAt first it seemed a bit too obvious,\u201d says Wendy Wilson. \u201cIn retrospect, now that we\u2019ve recorded it, it was a brilliant idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dedicated<\/em> is even more of a family affair than its pedigree would at first indicate. The trio invited friend Owen Elliot, daughter of \u201cMama\u201d Cass Elliot and an early member of the group that became Wilson Phillips, to sing her late mother\u2019s part on the\u00a0Mamas & the Papas\u2019 \u201cDedicated to the One I Love.\u201d \u201cNobody can sound like Cass Elliot but Cass Elliot\u2019s daughter,\u201d Wendy says. \u201cWe thought, what a beautiful thing to have Owen sing with us, because we worked with Owen early on. It didn\u2019t work out but we\u2019re still very close to her, and it was such a healing experience to sing with her again. We were honored to have her on the record.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album was produced by Carnie Wilson\u2019s husband, Rob Bonfiglio, who also did the arranging\u2014including a complex a cappella version of the Beach Boys\u2019 daunting epic \u201cGood Vibrations.\u201d \u201cFirst we were scared,\u201d admits Carnie, a California native like her bandmates. \u201cWe were like, \u2018How are we going to do that?\u2019 But it was just layer by layer, vocal\u00a0by vocal, sound by sound. And after\u00a0101 tracks and probably two weeks\u2019 worth of recording, I think it\u2019s the best vocal work that we\u2019ve ever done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buoyed by a renewed wave of attention that included a scene-stealing turn in the blockbuster movie Bridesmaids<\/em>, Wilson Phillips\u2019 next step could be recording its first album of new songs since 1992\u2019s Shadows and Light<\/em>. \u201cThe weird thing about original material\u2014I don\u2019t know about Wendy and Chynna\u2014but I get very anxious about it because you\u2019re like, \u2018Will people like it?\u2019\u201d says Carnie. \u201cThe three of us have to connect as writers, find the right collaborators and producer and go into the cocoon of creativity. Just forget everything else and go with what we feel is right. I\u2019m hoping we get that chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WILSON PHILLIPS \u00a0 Three members of classic pop royalty dedicate an album to the ones they love\u00a0 \u00a0 The members of Wilson Phillips first drew worldwide attention for their quintuple-platinum 1990 self-titled debut\u2014and for their status as rock royalty. Sisters Wendy and Carnie Wilson were the daughters of Beach Boy Brian Wilson, while Chynna Phillips\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[3303,10156,3516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5851,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions\/5851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}