Bubblegum, Lemonade and… Something for Mama is the second solo album released by Cass Elliot. It was recorded in 1969 and arranged and produced by Steve Barri. The album was originally released on July 5, 1969 with only 11 tracks. It was released again on December 6, 1969 under a new title and with a different album cover as Make Your Own Kind of Music/It’s Getting Better. "Make Your Own Kind of Music" had just become a hit and was added to the album. Primarily a "bubblegum" pop album, it contained several other types of music, from country, tin pan alley and jazz. 01 It's Getting Better 02 Blow Me A Kiss 03 Sour Grapes 04 Easy Come Easy Go 05 I Can Dream Can't I 06 Welcome To The World 07 Lady Love 08 He's A Runner 09 Move In A Little Closer Baby 10 When I Just Wear My Smile 11 Who's To Blame 12 Make Your Own Kind Of Music LINK
Ellen McIlwaine is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career as a slide guitarist. Born in Nashville, McIlwaine was adopted by missionaries and raised in Kobe, Japan, giving her exposure to multiple languages and cultures. She attended Canadian Academy, a K-12 international school in Kobe, graduating in 1963. Her first experience in music was playing Ray Charles, Fats Domino and Professor Longhair songs on piano that she heard on Japanese radio. On moving to back to the United States she bought a guitar, beginning a stage career in Atlanta, Georgia in the mid-1960s. As a female vocalist who is known more for her acoustic guitar, her music tends to be classified in the folk sections of record stores, despite her strong roots in blues, soul and rock music, and her cover versions of songs by Isaac Hayes, Stevie Wonder and Browning Bryant. She has also recorded several covers of songs by Jimi Hendrix: she wrote "Underground River" about him. 01 - Ain't No Two Ways About It (It's Love) 02 - All To You 03 - Sliding 04 - Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune 05 - Farther Along 06 - I Don't Want To Play 07 - Underground River 08 - Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (But Nobody Wants To Die) 09 - Jimmy Jean 10 - We The People LINK
Linda Perhacs is an American psychedelic folk singer, who released her only album Parallelograms in 1970. Linda's sole album, originally released on Kapp in 1970, has gained its deserved fame and reputation in the folk-psych scene in the last years after the NY label Wild Places released it on CD format some few years ago. We could talk about Joni Mitchell and the likes if we had to compare with anything, but fans of folk music in all its variety must be delighted with this amazing album, a truly hippie psychedelic folk masterpiece and without any doubt one of the top albums of the genre. 01 - Chimacum Rain 02 - Paper Mountain Man 03 - Dolphin 04 - Call Of The River 05 - Sandy Goes 06 - Parrallelograms 07 - Hey Who Really Cares 08 - Moons And Cattauls 09 - Morning Colors 10 - Porcelain Baked Over Cast-Iron Wedding 11 - Delicious LINK
The Great Society (aka The Great! Society!!) were a 1960s San Francisco rock band that existed between 1965 and 1966, and were closely associated with the burgeoning Bay Area acid rock scene. Best known as the original group of model turned singer, Grace Slick, the initial line-up of the band also featured her then-husband Jerry Slick on drums, his brother Darby Slick on guitar, David Miner on vocals and guitar, Bard DuPont on bass, and Peter van Gelder on saxophone. Miner and DuPont would not remain with the band for the duration of its existence. The Matrix, a renovated former pizza shop, was a nightclub in San Francisco from 1965 to 1972 and was one of the keys to what eventually became known as the "San Francisco Sound" in rock music. Located at 3138 Fillmore Street, The Matrix opened August 13, 1965 showcasing Jefferson Airplane, which singer Marty Balin had put together as the club's "house band." 01 - Sally Go Round The Roses 02 - Didn't Think So 03 - Grimly Forming 04 - Somebody To Love 05 - Father Bruce 06 - Outlaw Blues 07 - Often As I May 08 - Arbitration 09 - White Rabbit 10 - That's How It Is 11 - Darkly Smiling 12 - Nature Boy 13 - You Can't Cry 14 - Daydream Nightmare 15 - Everybody Knows 16 - Born To Be Burned 17 - Father LINK
Carolyn Hester is an American folk singer and songwriter. She was a figure in the early 1960s folk music revival. Carolyn Hester's first album was produced by Norman Petty in 1957. In 1960, she made her second album for the label run by the Clancy Brothers. She became known for "The House of the Rising Sun" and "She Moved Through the Fair". Hester was one of many young Greenwich Village singers who rode the crest of the 1960s folk music wave, and appeared on the cover of the May 30, 1964 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. According to Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times, Hester was "one of the originals—one of the small but determined gang of ragtag, early-'60s folk singers who cruised the coffee shops and campuses, from Harvard Yard to Bleecker Street, convinced that their music could help change the world." Hester was dubbed "The Texas Songbird," and was politically active, spearheading the controversial boycott of TV's Hootenanny when Pete Seeger was blacklisted from it. 01 - Come On Back 02 - Come On In 03 - 10 Train 04 - Captain,my Captain 05 - Water Is Wide 06 - Carry It On 07 - High Flying Bird 08 - Three Young Men 09 - Outward Bound 10 - The Weaving Song 11 - Sing Hallelujah 12 - That's My Song 13 - Summertime 14 - It Takes So Long 15 - Ain't That Rain 16 - Buckeye Jim 17 - Will You Send Your Love 18 - Jute Mill Song 19 - What's That I Hear 20 - Where Did My Little Boy Go 21 - Sidewalk City 22 - I Saw Her 23 - The Bad Girl 24 - Playboys And Playgirls LINK
Liz Damon's Orient Express was a 1970s band from Hawaii, featuring lead singer Liz Damon, two female backup singers and a rotating backup band. The name apparently derived from the original backup band being entirely Asian. Their only song to make the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 was "1900 Yesterday", which made it to #33 on the U.S. and #16 on the Canadian charts in early 1971. Most impressively, it peaked at #4 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey.The band was the house band at the Garden Bar at the Hilton Hawaiian Village for 18 months and recorded its first album, At the Garden Bar, Hilton Hawaiian Village in 1970. Originally released on Makaha Records, it was then picked up by White Whale Records, who released it as an eponymous album and also released "1900 Yesterday" as a single. 01 - 1900 Yesterday 02 - Something 03 - But For Love 04 - You Make Me Feel Like Someone 05 - Bring Me Sunshine 06 - You're Falling In Love 07 - Everything Is Beautiful 08 - That Same Old Feeling 09 - Close To You 10 - Let It Be 11 - Heaven In My Heart 12 - Quando, Quando, Quando 13 - Canadian Sunset 14 - Wave 15 - Danny Boy LINK
