Dedicated to the One I Love

"Dedicated to the One I Love" is a song written by Lowman Pauling and Ralph Bass which was a hit for The "5" Royales, The Shirelles and The Mamas & the Papas.[1]  Pauling was the guitarist of The "5" Royales, the group that recorded the original version of this song, produced by Bass, in 1957. Their version was re-released in 1961 and charted at #81 on the Billboard Hot 100.



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[hide]  *1 The Shirelles version  ==The Shirelles version[ edit] == ==The Mamas & The Papas version[ edit] == ==Other versions[ edit] == ==Song in popular culture[ edit] ==
 * 2 The Mamas & The Papas version
 * 3 Other versions
 * 4 Song in popular culture
 * 5 Notes
 * 6 External links
 * A version recorded by The Shirelles<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pc36_1-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  was a hit for them in 1959. In 1961, they re-released their version and it reached #3 on the Hot 100 chart and #2 on the R&B charts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]
 * A subsequent and more famous cover by The Mamas & the Papas<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pc36_1-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  released on the Dunhill label went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  This version also reached #2 on the UK charts. The lead singer on the Mamas & the Papas version was Michelle Phillips. It was the first time that Phillips was given the lead over Mama Cass Elliott.
 * Reparata and the Delrons covered the song on their 1965 LP Whenever a Teenager Cries.
 * In 1972, The Temprees' version reached #93 on the Hot 100.
 * In 1973, there was a reggae version by Hubert Ree (Hubert Lee) on the Count Shelly label - CS-026.
 * Bernadette Peters recorded a Hot 100 hit version in 1981, reaching #65.
 * Bitty McLean recorded a reggae remake in 1994, which reached #6 on the UK Singles Chart.
 * In 1996, Linda Ronstadt recorded "Dedicated to the One I Love" and made it the title song of her album, Dedicated to the One I Love released that year which featured oldies redone as lullabies.
 * Tanya Stephens included the song on her 1998 album Ruff Rider.
 * Holly Cole included the song on her 2000 album Romantically Helpless.
 * Ruben and the Jets released it on their 1973 album For Real!
 * Wilson Phillips, featuring Chynna Phillips, the daughter of John and Michelle from the Mamas and the Papas, released it on their 2013 album Dedicated with Cass Elliot's daughter Owen Elliot-Kugell singing Cass's line "And it's something that everybody needs." <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]
 * In 1992, the long-running CBS night time soap, Knots Landing, named an episode, "Dedicated to the One I Love", in which The Mamas & The Papas' version of the song is played in the background.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]
 * In D-TV Disney, the Mamas and the Papas' version was set to Sleeping Beauty.
 * In 2005, the song was covered by the final 10 of the second season of New Zealand Idol.
 * The song is used in the last scene and fade-out of the movie Morvern Callar (1995).
 * In an episode of the television show China Beach, which has been described as a Vietnam-era version of M*A*S*H, the actress Chloe Webb, portraying a USO touring backup singer, offers a tender and emotional version of this song to a fatally injured soldier as a last request to help his death.