Mama Lion

Mama Lion  was a blues-rock band formed by Canadian producer  Neil Merryweather  and Los Angeles-born singer-songwriter  Lynn Carey.

Merryweather ,  Carey, and  Hall  then formed the band  Mama Lion  in 1972, featuring  Carey  on lead vocals. Neil  saw a restaurant called “ Mama Lion’s ” while driving in downtown LA and took the name for the new band. The band included on vocals and keyboards a young  James Newton Howard, who would go on to become well-known as a writer and performer of movie scores ( Pretty Woman ,  Prince of Tides ,  The Dark Knight , etc.).

The band recorded two albums, " Preserve Wildlife " (which featured a controversial photo of Carey appearing to nurse a tiger cub) in 1972 and " Give It Everything I've Got " in 1973. As often with the  Merryweather  outputs, the music is a rather loose mix of blues and rock.

Mama Lion  disbanded in 1973.