The Big 3 (folk group)

The Big 3 was an American folk trio consisting of singer Cass Elliot (1941–1974), singer-songwriter-banjo player Tim Rose (1940–2002), and singer-guitarist Jim Hendricks (b. 1940).

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In 1962, Tim Rose and John Brown met Cass Elliot in Georgetown, DC: "After trying a few songs together, they went on the road as The Triumvirate. In Omaha, Nebraska, they recruited James Hendricks before heading for New York City as The Big Three." Brown appears to have been left behind. In New York, the reconfigured trio played coffee houses and folk clubs – including The Bitter End – with sufficient effect to secure spots on national television programs such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), Hootenanny (1963), and The Danny Kaye Show (1963). They made twenty-six television appearances in all. Meanwhile, Elliot had married Hendricks to help him avoid the draft; it is said that the union was never consummated. The trio released two albums and two singles before personal and musical differences led to its demise. Rose went solo, while Elliot and Hendricks went on to co-found The Mugwumps, which in turn begat The Mamas and the Papas and The Lovin' Spoonful.

Banjo (disambiguation)

A banjo is a stringed instrument common in folk and popular music. It may also refer to:

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The Banjo (Gottschalk)

The Banjo, Op. 15, is a composition for piano by the American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Composed in 1853, it is one of Gottschalk's best-known works. The piece features captivating imitations of mid-nineteenth-century African-American banjo techniques and includes demonstrations of techniques, such as up-picking and strumming, which are not found in other sources from the period.

History

During the summer of 1853, Gottschalk undertook several compositions; among them was the first version of The Banjo. After taking the piece through a major overhaul, Gottschalk submitted it for publication in 1854 as his Opus 15.

The accuracy of Gottschalk's banjo imitations in the piece makes it a unique record of the sound of pre-Civil War African-American banjo playing, and it contains evidence of techniques not found in other sources, including combinations of "downstroking" and "up-picking" found in West African plucked lute performance. This unusual accuracy has enabled at least one modern banjo player to recreate the banjo music that Gottschalk transcribed, which invited speculation that Gottschalk may have taken his banjo imitations from actual transcription of an unnamed African-American banjo player. Unlike most banjo music in the popular minstrel shows of the time that more closely followed the melody of dance music, most of "The Banjo" consists of variations of a repeating phrase as is done by musicians in the Senegambia region in West Africa, the source for the banjo's ancestors.

The Banjo (3logy song)

"The Banjo" is a 2014 single by the Norwegian music formation 3logy (stylized as 3LOGY) featuring Susanne Louise. The song was released on RCA Records label and was performed live during the Norway Cup 2014 Opening Show called "NRJ in the Park" and appeared the following week on VG-lista, the official Norwegian Singles Chart. It also charted in Tracklisten, the Danish Singles Chart. The track has certified double platinum with more than 8 million streams on Spotify & iTunes. An international version named “The Banjo (Cruise Control)” was released on 10 October 2014, featuring Amy King (Amy Hodgson) instead of Susanne Louise Olijnyk. “The Banjo (Cruise Control)” was picked up by Sony Music Germany in the fall of 2014 pending an international launch worldwide for the spring of 2015 after its success in Scandinavia. So far the track has just entered the top 100 on the German "Deutschedjcharts" chart in the end of February 2015.

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