Big Bambú is the second album by Cheech & Chong, released in 1972

1972 in music

-Events:*January 17 – Highway 51 South in Memphis, Tennessee is renamed "Elvis Presley Boulevard"*January 20 – The début of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at The Dome, Brighton, is halted by technical difficulties,...

. The name Big Bambu is a reference to a type of rolling paper

Rolling papers

Rolling papers are small sheets, rolls, or leaves of paper which are sold for rolling one's own cigarettes either by hand or with a rolling machine...

 made by the Bambu company; the original LP sleeve was designed by Ernie Cefalu

Ernie Cefalu

Ernie Cefalu is a contemporary Senior Creative Director, currently working out of Los Angeles, CA. Cefalu attended the California College of Arts and Crafts and graduated in 1969 with honors...

 and manufactured to look like a giant rolling paper package, and originally contained a giant rolling paper with the record. Since its release, vinyl copies with the rolling paper have been extremely hard to find. The original CD

Compact Disc

The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

 packaging has been slightly reformatted, and does not contain rolling papers of any size.

In a mixed but mostly positive review published in Rolling Stone, Janet Maslin

Janet Maslin

Janet Maslin is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times. She served as the Times film critic from 1977–1999.- Biography :...

 singled out the duo's voice work for particular praise. "The thing Cheech and Chong are great with is voices. Each has terrific ears for dialect, anything from spare change wino to jiveass soul, and there are at least 20 distinct personae showing up here, all of them cleverly done."

The album was nominated for Best Comedy Recording

Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album was awarded from yearly 1959 to 1993 and then from 2004 to present day. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:*From 1959 to 1967 it was Best Comedy Performance...

 at the 15th Grammy Awards, but lost to George Carlin's

Lily Tomlin

Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer. Tomlin has been a major force in American comedy since the late 1960's when she began a career as a stand up comedian and became a featured performer on television's Laugh-in...

 FM & AM

FM & AM

FM & AM is an album by American comedian George Carlin. This album was originally released in 1972 on the Atlantic Records subsidiary label Little David Records, later reissued on Carlin's Eardrum Records label...

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Side 1

1. Sister Mary Elephant
   Sister Mary Elephant
   Sister Mary Elephant is a comedy skit by Cheech and Chong. The recording was released as a single in 1973 and climbed to #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974...
   
   - 3:38 (#50 Canada)
2. Ralph And Herbie - 3:24
3. Streets Of New York Or Los Angeles Or San Francisco Or... - 2:34
4. Rebuttal: Speaker Ashley Roachclip - 1:56
5. The Continuing Adventures Of Pedro De Pacas And Man - 6:22

Side 2

1. The Bust - 2:02
2. Television Medley - 14:18

a) Tortured Old Man - 3:08

b) Empire Hancock - 1:08

c) Let's Make A Dope Deal - 3:57

d) Unamerican Bandstand - 6:05