The Big Three Featuring Mama Cass Elliot [Import]

Big Three | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 21, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sequel Records UK
• ASIN: B000000PSZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #545,087 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. May Be Right

2. Anna Fla (Feher)

3. Tony & Delia

4. Grandfather's Clock

5. Silkie

6. Ringo

7. Down in the Valley

8. Wild Women

9. All the Pretty Little Horses

10. Glory Glory

11. Come Away Melinda

12. Young Girl's Lament

13. The Banjo Song

14. Winken Blinken and Nod

15. Ho Honey Oh

16. Nora's Dove (Dink's Song)

17. Come Along

18. Rider

19. It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad

20. Sing Hallelujah

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, edgy folk music, but the liner notes are a problem, February 15, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Big Three Featuring Mama Cass Elliot (Audio CD)

This is now one of two versions of this excellent group's only record available on CD. The recording quality on both CDs is excellent, and this import contains 3 tracks not on the other, which makes it the better one to have musically -- but -- the liner notes are very disturbing to fans of the mucicians involved. They are depressing, cynical, and inaccurate. Of course they hit a low point when discussing the untimely death of Cass Elliot, somehow managing to avoid the untrue rumor about her having choked on food (she actually died of heart failure), but instead propagating an equally disgusting one concerning the aftermath of that sad event. The newer release (also available through Amazon) has liner notes by a writer who has obviously done his homework, interviewing everyone still living who was involved with the group and retrieving interviews with Cass that even old fans like me didn't know existed. All in all, both CDs are great to listen to, but the better information about the group is with the new (10/2000) version. If you're interested, please see my review of the new album ("Powerful, edgy folk music") under its own listing.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A delightful addition to my ever-expanding library, December 24, 1999

By 

Cal Wilson (Fremont, California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Big Three Featuring Mama Cass Elliot (Audio CD)

of obscure folk groups. While I do not give this collection the five stars rendered by all of the other reviewers of this title, it is still a wonderful assemblage of both traditional and contemporary folk music, and offers the listener an opportunity to experience the pure and powerful sound of a young Cass Elliot. The voices of her two partners, Tim Rose and Jim Hendricks, are passable as compared with other folk groups of the time, but it is Elliot's lovely strains that ultimately carry the trio.

I purchased this title from Amazon.com more out of curiosity than out of an old memory of having ever heard the group. I simply wanted to hear what Mama Cass had to offer prior to the inception of The Mamas And The Papas; and I am not disappointed that I did.

If you're interested in pursuing the overall history of the '60s folk revival, the liner notes are extremely informational, and are worth the price of the CD alone.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest folk band ever, August 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Big Three Featuring Mama Cass Elliot (Audio CD)

Being the biggest Cass elliot fan on the west coast, I was shocked to actually find this collection of works from her band The Big 3, before she became mama cass with the mamas and the papas. This is a great album. I had no idea how great and spectacularly sounding this would be. I saw it in the store and had to get it. If you are a cass fan, you have to get this album. It's amazing to hear the way she sounded before her solo career. Especially because it is a foreign release and you never know how long it will still be available.