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This band’s song “Creeque Alley” [“creaky (15[1])alley”] details their founding in the (15[1])Virgin Islands and ends each verse claiming that “no one's getting fat (15[1])except” one member of (15[1])this group. An album by (15[1])this band features an often-censored toilet bowl on the cover and shows this band sitting together in (-5[1])a bathtub. Denny Doherty claims the title (15[1])day is “so good to me” and (*) “everything I thought it would be'' in a song by (-5[1])this band. (10[1])Another song by this band with the lyrics “I got down on my knees, and I pretend to pray” is played 8 times in Chungking Express; that (10[1])song repeats the line “all the leaves (10[1])are brown”. For 10 (10[1])points, what folk rock band behind the songs “Monday, Monday” and “California Dreamin’” is named for two plural parental figures? ■END■

ANSWER: the Mamas and the Papas (the album is If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears)
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