The Mama Cass Television Program
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Actor: Barbara Bain, Buddy Hackett, Joni Mitchell, Jr. Sammy Davis, Martin LandauBrand: IFE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 65 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-08-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: IEG2150
Studio: Classic World
DVD Reviews of The Mama Cass Television Program
DVD Review: Great to see Cass
Summary: 4 Stars
I have mixed feelings about this, largely due to some of the comedy moments.
Thumbs up: Cass singing California Dreamin', Monday Monday, I Can Dream Can't I?, and Dream a Little Dream; solos from Mary Travers, Joni Mitchell and John Sebastian; amazing pairing of Cass, Joni and Mary; nice duet with John; funny and touching sketch with Bain and Landau; Cass closing and somewhat touching comments.
So-so: Sketch with Cass and Buddy is a nice idea but the writing seems forced; Cass's closing song, Dancing in the Streets. She gives it a lot of energy, but it somehow runs out of steam. I also have to say that the budget for the show must have been a relatively small one. The studio was a VERY small, with perhaps 150 people in the audience, and production values are not much. The woman who did Cass' hair must have been coming off a bad trip as neither setting is very flattering (Cass had a long face, made longer by stretch marks under her chin. As such, she alwways looked better with bangs); John Sebastian interview. He looks great for his age, and it is nice to hear what little he said, but it was not much.
Thumbs down: Opening sketch with Buddy Hackett is often not funny, and the song is trite; sketch/song with Cass, Hackett, Bain and Landau is AWFUL, though Bain looks as though she had fun doing something silly; Sammy & Cass - what were they thinking when the producers chose that song? I have a lot of variety shows from sixties and seventies and very often the material chosen was ill-suited for the singers and this is certainly the case for Sammy and nearly as much for Cass. Fun to see, but considering all of the great work she did elsewhere on tv from 1968-1973, I cannot help wonder why they chose to put this on the dvd.
Despite it's flaws, I still think it is worth owning. How much nicer it would have been with a full-length bio on Cass, or clips from her work elsewhere on tv (Burnette Show, Tom Jones, Julie Andrews Hour, etc.)
FYI, the show was filmed in the late summer of 1968, a month prior to her disasterous Vegas appearance and in fact she and Hackett discuss the forthcoming appearance. Odd, as the show was set to air in December 1968, after the Vegas dates. Cass also says her daugher is 20 months old, which she would have been in December 1968 (Owen was born sometime in late April 1967). In any event, airing of the special was pushed back to give her career time to recover from the huge setback of a failed Vegas gig that should have lasted three weeks but lasted two nights. I have to say I am surprised they booked her in Vegas. Cass had only just begun her career as a solo artist, and good though she was, I believe it took her a few years past the time of this program to gain the gravitas it took to perform well as a live, solo act. She is much more secure in her 1973 program. And if reviews are anything to go by, her work in person as a solo was far superior in her later years.
Description of The Mama Cass Television Program
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 08/25/09
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
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