{{About|the Cheech & Chong album|the Doug and Mike Starn artwork|Big Bambú (artwork){{!}}''Big Bambú'' (artwork)}} {{Infobox album | name = Big Bambu | type = [[Album]] | artist = [[Cheech & Chong]] | cover = BigBambu.jpg | alt = | released = June 1972 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Comedy]] | length = 34:14 | label = [[Ode Records]]/[[Warner Bros. Records]] / [[Warner Music Group|WEA]] | producer = [[Lou Adler]] | prev_title = [[Cheech and Chong (album)|Cheech and Chong]] | prev_year = 1971 | next_title = [[Los Cochinos]] | next_year = 1973 }} {{Album ratings |rev1 = [[AllMusic]] |rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r236459|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref> }}
'''''Big Bambu''''' is the second album by [[Cheech & Chong]], released in [[1972 in music|1972]]. The name ''Big Bambu'' is a reference to the actual [[Bambu (rolling papers)|Bambu]] brand of [[rolling paper]]. The original [[vinyl record|LP]] concept and album package was approved by the producer [[Lou Adler]] and designed by [[Ron Larson]] and manufactured by Sound Packaging Corp. to look like a giant rolling paper package, and contained a giant rolling paper with the record. Vinyl copies with the rolling paper have become collectible and hard to find. The original [[Compact Disc|CD]] packaging has been slightly reformatted, and does not contain rolling papers.
In generally positive review published in ''[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]]'', [[Janet Maslin]] 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."<ref name="RS #115">{{cite magazine |last1=Maslin, Janet |date=August 17, 1972 |title=Big Bambu |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |publisher=Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. |issue=115 |pages=54, 56 |author-link1= Janet Maslin}}</ref>
The album was nominated for [[Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album|Best Comedy Recording]] at the [[15th Grammy Awards]], but lost to [[George Carlin's]] ''[[FM & AM]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1973-222.html |title=Grammy Award Nominees 1973 – Grammy Award Winners 1973 |website=Awardsandshows.com |access-date=11 August 2019 }}</ref>
The album was #10 for 3 weeks in [[RPM (magazine)|Canada]], and was on the charts for 39 weeks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4195.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Albums - October 1, 1972}}</ref>
== Track listing == {{Track listing | headline = Side one | title1 = [[Sister Mary Elephant]] | length1 = 3:38 | title2 = Ralph and Herbie | length2 = 3:24 | title3 = Streets of New York or Los Angeles or San Francisco or... | length3 = 2:34 | title4 = Rebuttal: Speaker Ashley Roachclip | length4 = 1:56 | title5 = The Continuing Adventures of Pedro de Pacas and Man | length5 = 6:22 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two | title1 = The Bust | length1 = 2:02 | title2 = Television Medley * a) Tortured Old Man * b) Empire Hancock * c) Let's Make a Dope Deal * d) Unamerican Bandstand | length2 = 14:18 3:08 1:08 3:57 6:05 }}
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