James Hunter, "John Phillips (John the Wolfking of L.A.)", Rolling Stone, November 2, 2006. Matthew Greenwald of Allmusic also gave the album four stars. See John Phillips, John Phillips (John, The Wolf King of L.A.), Allmusic. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
Rock Family Trees, Season Two, Episode One: California Dreaming' Archived June 16, 2013, at archive.today, first broadcast on BBC 2, September–October 1998. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
Doherty said, "I wrote the tune. John Phillips wrote the lyric." See Dream a Little Dream (the Nearly True Story of the Mamas and the Papas), Denny Doherty Website. Retrieved May 2, 2013. Phillips said he wrote everything, but gave Doherty a co-composer credit because he had inspired the song.
Rock Family Trees, Season Two, Episode One: California Dreaming' Archived June 16, 2013, at archive.today, first broadcast on BBC 2, September–October 1998. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
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Harris Pickens Dawson III, b. January 4, 1943, d. August 16, 1986, in Long Beach, Brunswick County, North Carolina; see North Carolina, Deaths, 1931–1994, at Family Search. Retrieved May 6, 2013. Dawson is routinely described by contemporaries as a drug dealer; he was also briefly (and wrongly) suspected of involvement in the Manson murders. Fiegel says he was born in 1942 and that his middle name was Pickins, both of which details appear to be incorrect.
