Cass Elliot
Cass Elliot
2000: BMG/RCA BVCM-37159
Wanna get maudlin and cry your eyes out? This is a great album for it. I used to listen to my friend Keith’s vinyl album of this and get fantastically depressed; in fact at one low point in the late 1980s this was one album I played over and over again while playing a solitaire variation on Canfield I developed (doubling the deck but not the playing field) called “Suicide Solitaire.” Wanna know the rest of that story? I actually wrote a brief poem about it much later.
“Cherries Jubilee” in particular is a heart-wrencher. I wish I could sum it up here in one pithy phrase, but only hearing Cass’s presentation of the song will do.
Comments © 2005 Mark Ellis Walker, except as noted, and no claim is made to the images and quoted lyrics.