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Cass Elliot / The Road Is No Place For A Lady
Collector's Choice Music - This is a very special reissue for us at 'Collectors' Choice Music', and it's not just because we're restoring to availability some classic albums that have been gathering dust in the vaults (that's standard operating procedure around here)! No, it's also because, as Cass Elliot's daughter Owen put it to us, these albums were by far the most representative of her mother's artistic vision, as Cass, freed from the commercial strictures at ABC/Dunhill, the Mamas & Papas' old label, was given free reign by RCA to select her own repertoire and collaborators. The result was two absolute gems, both of which have been mysteriously absent from CD ('Cass Elliot' has been out of print for years, 'The Road', her final studio album, has never been on CD at all). Plus, we've added unreleased bonus tracks—a full portrait of an artist at the top of her game! Arranged and conducted by Benny Golson, 'Cass Elliot' includes 'I'll Be Home; Baby I'm Yours; Jesus Was a Cross Maker; That Song; When It Doesn't Work Out; I'll Be There; Disney Girls; I Think It's Going to Rain Today; Cherries Jubilee', and 'All in the Game', plus the bonus tracks 'East of the Sun (and West of the Moon); We'll See', and 'Try It Baby'. 'The Road', which features Chris Spedding on guitar among other luminaries, includes '(If You're Gonna) Break Another Heart; Saturday Suit; Does Anybody Love You; Walk Beside Me; All My Life; Say Hello; Who in the World; Love Was Not a Word; Oh Babe, What Would You Say; The Road Is No Place for a Lady', and the unreleased bonus track 'Don't Make Me a Memory'. With notes by Mama maven Richard Campbell!
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The Mama Cass Television Program (dvd)
Collector's Choice Music - As we all know by now, 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, but it also marks the 40th anniversary of a unique and colorful TV special that, in its own small way, captured the spirit of the Festival and, indeed, of the decade as well as anything that ever aired on network television. 'The Mama Cass Television Program' was a pilot for a regular variety series that aired once and once only in 1969, and, after viewing it, one suspects that the vibe on the show was just a little bit too flower power for the network execs to pick it up as a regular series. John Sebastian, Joni Mitchell and Mary Travers all join Mama Cass for a singalong that's a little slice of ‘60s music utopia (and we sure could use a little bit of that in these hard-bitten days); includes rare solo vocal performances by Cass of the Mamas and Papas hits 'California Dreamin'' and 'Monday, Monday', plus further solo turns on 'Dream a Little Dream of Me; River of Life; I Can Dream, Can't I?', and 'Dancing in the Street'; 'Both Sides Now' Joni Mitchell; 'And When I Die' Mary Travers; 'I Shall Be Released' Cass, Joni & Mary; 'She's a Lady' John Sebastian, and 'Darlin' Companion' Cass & John.
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