Cass Elliot's Final Recordings To Be Reissued Plus DVD Set For Release - A Top Story This Week
07/24/2009
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Cass Elliot's Final Recordings To Be Reissued Plus DVD Set For Release was a top story for this week. Here it is again: (conqueroo) While Mama Cass Elliot is mostly remembered for her vocal harmonies with the quintessential California folk-rock quartet the Mamas & the Papas, her story did not end there. Elliot (born Ellen Cohen) came to music via the New York folk scene of the early '60s (with a detour into a road production of The Music Man). She was part of a Kingston-esque trio, the Big Three, which morphed into the proto-folk-rock outfit the Mugwumps. Eventually Elliot and fellow Mugwump Denny Doherty joined John and Michelle Philips to form the Mamas & the Papas, recording such monster hits as "Monday Monday," "California Dreamin'" and "I Saw Her Again." But as successful as the Mamas & the Papas were, they split after only a few years.
Starting in 1968, Elliot recorded two albums and a handful of singles (most notably Dream A Little Dream of Me) under the name of Mama Cass on ABC/Dunhill. However, her most spirited and independent work came when she signed to RCA Records in 1971, dropped the "Mama" and added her surname, and recorded three acclaimed albums. Of these, the eponymous Cass Elliot and its follow-up, The Road Is No Place for a Lady, will be reissued for the first time on CD on August 25 by Collectors' Choice Music. The single-CD reissue, titled Cass Elliot/The Road Is No Place for a Lady, contains two previously unreleased tracks, "We'll See" and "Try it Baby." In addition, Infinity Entertainment Group will release, on the same date, The Mama Cass Television Program, a 1969 television pilot starring Cass with guests Joni Mitchell, John Sebastian and Mary Travers. The program also makes its DVD debut.
The CD package features extensive liner notes by Elliot's personal historian, Richard Campbell, as well as by Owen Elliot-Kugell, Cass' daughter, who oversaw the project. Elliot-Kugell says in the liner notes, "How amazing (it was) in the year 2009 to be able to go into the studio and watch the now 37-year-old tapes be loaded into the machines and actually played. Nothing had disintegrated. And we were transported instantly back to 1972." Attending the mastering session was the original producer of the two RCA albums, Lewis Mermenstein (known also for his work on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks), who regaled Owen-Kugell with stories and memories. - more on this story
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