Cass Elliot - California Earthquake

Cass is amazing as she sings a song on the Smothers Brothers show (in the late 60's) that's even more relevant today than it was then.

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Music

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• Cass
• Elliot
• Smothers
• Brothers
• Mamas
• Papas

[9InchWarrior]

Is this from a M&P album, or is it just a solo of Cass'?

[2old2Rock]

It's definitely a solo number but it does appear on some M&P compilation (i.e 'Best of") albums.

[KEvronius]

everything about cass was big. big talent. big voice. big body. big heart. big intellect. big appetites. big presence.

while you just are a small fuck, watching one of her very many brilliant performances archived here.

KEvron

[Soonni2k6]

Wow, someone needs to get a life.

Instead of insulting dead people.

Congratulations on being weak :}

[anatoriac]

Her voice gives me goosebumps :)

[roughrun]

She was the voice of the 60's, probably the most under rated off all time, she carried a generation on her back, and the load proved too much for her.

[Dexie78]

Cass sounds great, as always and she looks SO slim here - I always believe that some people just aren't built to be tiny and I believe that with Cass, too but this was a great size for her. She looks good.

[auspete]

An astonishing song made even more amazing in this performance by the fact she is singing LIVE to a boom microphone. The first time I ever heard this song was as a disquieting backdrop to a Horizon (BBC) documentary about San Francisco's earthquake history, and the ineptitude of town planners at that time (probably 1973-74) to take the fault line into consideration, even building schools over it.

[SupernalOne]

kind of an alarming song - "we're all gonna die!"

[Charis114]

This woman had some voice, and I don;t think she received the recognition she deserved while she was alive. No matter what she sang, she sang with her whole heart. Long live Mama Cass!

[DanielSelby1965]

Always loved this song.

[waynebrasler]

A wonderful record and Cass certainly believed in it but it did nothing. Worse, when she performed it in Las Vegas (and as I remember opened with it) it proved a major ingredient in the engagement being a disaster. Cass was all over T.V., including being a guest host on the Tonight Show, and didn't hesitate to talk about this song and its consequences. She could laugh at the whole thing. Her whole debut solo album was outstanding, including "The Room Nobody Loves In," my favorite.

[Marker773]

Just wondering . . . despite the magnificent voice and excellent song - would someone who looked like Cass Elliot even be allowed on teh teevee here in 2010? Look what they did to Susan Boyle.

Maybe we should become extinct.

[Marker773]

Glorious!! Love this.