Mama

The song Mama, performed by Mary MacGregor, is from her debut album, Torn Between Two Lovers, released in December 1976. This work was produced and co-written in part by Peter Yarrow. The full album reached number 17 on the Billboard 200 chart. Three singles were extracted from this album that managed to appear on both the Country music charts and the Hot 100. The album's title track, Torn Between Two Lovers, became a number one hit in the pop and adult contemporary music categories.Regarding critical reception, Robert Christgau, in his 1981 Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies, rated the album a "C".

In his review, Christgau noted the peculiarity that Peter Yarrow's first commercial success of that decade was a replacement for Olivia Newton-John's style, albeit with a willingness to admit infidelity in the lyrics. For his part, Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times described Mary MacGregor in the context of this release. The duration of Mama is 3 minutes and 19 seconds.