"Dedicated to the One I Love": which is most recognizable, the version by the Shirelles or the version by the Mamas & the Papas?

M&P's, don't think I've heard the Shirelles version.

love both groups and both versions. don't really understand the question.

Which version you hear most on the radio or tv or just around in different places.

none?

it's not that hard a question to understand. which is the one that you've heard more in your life, i think is pretty much the question

i would say MandP but when i was a little kid i think i would have said shirelles.

M&P's, don't think I've heard the Shirelles version.

― Mark G, Wednesday, May 11, 2011 4:16 PM (26 minutes ago)

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Like both. M&P's is better produced but the Shirelles kind of define the vocals for me.

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Funny, I would have thought it was the Shirelles version, but I had to check to make sure and the clip on Amazon sounds a little foreign! So, I guess it's the M&P version, but like surmounter I think I heard Shirelles more a longer time ago. It was a number one hit!

UK/USA divide.

Do we forget the number 6 hit of Bitty Mclean?

Don't think I've heard the Shirelles versh.

Don't think I even heard this song until I watched Morvern Callar actually..

Shirelles, no question.

very tight race in terms of quality, but w/r/t original question, Mamas and Papas, though I'm probably biased by Morvern Callar..

Mamas+Papas but this...

UK/USA divide.

― Mark G, Thursday, 12 May 2011 09:47 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

UK/USA divide

Yeah, I was gonna say. I've never heard the Mamas and Papas version on the radio in my life while The Shirelles version is a oldies radio staple.

I kind of don't understand how it's possible to have heard the Mamas and the Papas version of this more, but then again I grew up in a household of do-woppers rather than hippies.

Oops, I just relistened to the Mamas and Papas version, and now I remember it too. I think they both get lots of radio play in the US, so it's impossible to decide. But if you say "Dedicated to the One I Love", I immediately hear the Shirelles version in my head.

Definitely the Shirelles

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Mamas and Papas version is fine, but it's leaning toward some of their obnoxious old-timey a capella material.

i never even knew there was a mama & papas version, i voted for shierelles as it seemed obvious but app not

It's obvious only to those of us looking through wrong end of fiberchalloptic thread