BURIED TREASURE
Pudding too hard
This month’s rediscovered delicacy: an acid girl group plays baroque R&B.
Slice girls: The Cake (from left) Barbara Morillo, Eleanor Barooshian and Jeanette Jacobs on the The Woody Woodbury Show, December 1967.
Ed Caraeff
CREDITS
Tracks: Ba by That’s Me/World Of Dreams/You Can Have Him/ Medieval Love/Fire Fly/ Rainbow Wood/I Know/Moc king Bird/ Ooh Poo Pah Doo/ Stand By M e/What’d I Say
Personnel: Barbara Mo rillo, Jeanette Ja cobs, Eleanor Ba rooshian (vocals), Harold Battiste (arrangem ent), Dr John (piano , organ), sundry session players
Producers: Charles Greene, Brian Stone
Released : December 1967
Recorded : Gold Star Studio s, Los Angeles
Chart peak: n/a
Current availability: Streaming services
The Cake
The Cake
DECCA, 1967
MAMAS & THE PAPAS singer Michelle Phillips wasn’t expecting any pushback when she refused to let a young female vocal trio called The Cake backstage at Monterey Pop in June 1967. But as founding member and songwriter Barbara Morillo recalls today, their friend Eric Burdon was not pleased: “He said, ‘You’re going to give passes to The Cake – or we’re pulling The Animals and Jimi Hendrix off the show!’”