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1967......#5 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #3 Canada, #6 Australia Original video edited and AI remastered with HQ stereo sound. “Words of Love“ is a song appearing on the album The Mamas & the Papas. The song was written by John Phillips, and featured Cass Elliot as the primary vocalist. It was released as a single in November 1966 (backed with a cover of Martha and the Vandellas's “Dancing in the Street“). Given the disappointing chart placement of the prior single, Look Through My Window, hopes were high that Words of Love would return the group to the upper reaches of the charts: on the week of January 21, 1967, the single fulfilled this hope, as it reached No. 5 in the United States. Overseas, it peaked at No. 47 in the United Kingdom. In the lyrics, Elliot advises men that simply reciting words of love “won't win a girl's heart anymore.“ She tells men to demonstrate their love and admiration for a potential girlfriend by sending her “somewhere
