Go Where You Wanna Go

Album: Up-Up and Away (1966)
Charted: 16
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  • [Chorus:]
    You gotta go where you want to go
    Do what you want to do
    With whoever you want to do it with

    [Chorus]

    You don't understand
    That a girl like me can love just one man
    Three thousand miles, that's how far you'll go
    And you said to me "please don't follow"

    'Cause you gotta go where you want to go
    Do what you want to do
    With whoever you want to do it with

    [Chorus]

    You don't understand
    That a girl like me can love just one man
    You've been gone a week, and I tried so hard
    Not to be the cryin' kind
    Not to be the girl you left behind

    [Chorus x3] Writer/s: JOHN EDMUND ANDREW PHILLIPS
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Sophie Maele from VirginiaListen to these two recordings back-to-back. The Mamas and the Papas recording is so far superior to the 5th Dimension as to be unworthy of discussion. The M&P track jumps from the speakers because of two things: the engineering creates a brighter, more present sound and Cass Elliot's vocals are powerful and evocative as always. She flat-out pushes the orchestration aside and demands your auditory attention. The 5th Dimension, a truly wonderful vocal group, sound constrained in comparison.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 18th 1967, the Fifth Dimension performed "Go Where You Wanna Go" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #21 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and the very next day it would peak at #16 {for 2 weeks} and spent 10 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #9 on the Canadian RPM Singles chart...
    Between 1967 and 1976 the quintet had thirty Top 100 records; seven made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" for 6 weeks in 1969 and "Wedding Bells Blues" for 3 weeks also in 1969...
    They just missed having a third #1 when "One Less Bell to Answer" peaked at #2 for two weeks in 1970 {the two weeks it was at #2, "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison was the #1 record for both those weeks}...
    Sadly, original member Ron Townson passed away on August 2nd, 2001 at the age of 68...
    May he R.I.P.
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