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3 unusual facts about Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys


Cafe Wha?

Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, The Velvet Underground, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Kool and the Gang, Peter, Paul & Mary, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and many others all began their careers at the Wha?

Imperial Golden Crown Harmonizers

Also Charlie Prichard, Cindy Cashdollar, Lavelle White, Bill Kirchen, Kim Deschamps, Ruthie Foster, and Gary Primich (now deceased), have occasionally joined in.

King Progress

It would be the only album that included Charlie Harcourt (who would later go on to join Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys and Lindisfarne), Tommy Slone, and Mario Enrique Covarrubias Tapia who would leave shortly after the album was released.


Buzzy Linhart

His prowess on the vibraphone found him performing as a session musician on recordings by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Richie Havens, Carly Simon, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, and Jimi Hendrix (on the Cry of Love album).


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