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''For the member of the Texas House of Representatives, see Ellen Cohen.''
'Cass Elliot' (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), born 'Ellen Naomi Cohen', was a noted American singer, best remembered as 'Mama Cass' of the pop quartet The Mamas & the Papas. After the group broke up, she had a successful solo career, releasing nine albums. Elliot was found dead in her hotel room in London from an apparent heart attack after two sold-out performances at the Palladium.
Ellen Cohen was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up there and in Alexandria, Virginia (a suburb of Washington, DC). She adopted the name "Cass" in high school – possibly, as Denny Doherty tells it, borrowing it from the actress Peggy Cass – but in any case, it was just 'Cass,' not 'Cassandra.' She assumed the surname Elliot sometime later, in memory of a friend who had died.
She started her acting career with a part in the play ''The Boy Friend'' while she was still in school. After leaving school, she went to New York City, where she appeared in ''The Music Man'' but lost the part of Miss Marmelstein in ''I Can Get It for You Wholesale'' to Barbra Streisand in 1962.
While working as a hat check girl at "The Showplace" in Greenwich Village, Elliot would sometimes sing, but it wasn't until she returned to the Washington area, to attend American University, that she began to pursue a singing career. As America's folk music scene was on the rise, Elliot met banjoist and singer Tim Rose and singer John Brown, and the three began performing as The Triumvirate. In 1963, James Hendricks replaced Brown and the trio was renamed The Big Three. Elliot's first recording, ''Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod,'' with The Big Three, was released by FM Records in 1963.
When Tim Rose left The Big Three in 1964, Elliot and Hendricks teamed up with Canadians Zal Yanovsky and Denny Doherty as The Mugwumps. This group lasted eight months, after which Cass performed as a solo act for a while. Yanovsky joined with John Sebastian to co-found The Lovin' Spoonful while Doherty joined The New Journeymen with John Phillips and his wife, Michelle. In 1965, Doherty finally convinced Phillips that Cass should join the group. She did so, officially, while they were vacationing in the Virgin Islands.
Now that The New Journeymen had two female members, it needed a new name. According to Doherty, Elliot had the inspiration for the band's new name. Doherty writes on his website:
Doherty went on to say that the occasion marked the beginning of his affair with Michelle. Elliot was in love with Doherty (though married platonically to Jim Hendricks at the time), so was displeased when he told her about the affair. Doherty has said that Cass once proposed to him, but that he was so stoned at the time, he couldn't even respond.
Elliot, known for her sense of humor and optimism, was considered by some to be the most charismatic member of the group. Her warm, distinctive voice was a large factor in their success. She is best remembered for her vocals on the group's ''Billboard'' hits ''California Dreamin''', ''Monday Monday'', and ''Words of Love'', and particularly for the solo ''Dream a Little Dream of Me'', which the group recorded in 1968 after learning about the death of Fabian Andre, one of the men who co-wrote it, whom Michelle Phillips had met years earlier. Elliot's version is noteworthy for being a ballad, whereas almost all earlier recordings of "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (including one by Nat King Cole) had been quick, up-tempo versions — the song having actually been written in 1931 as a dance tune for the nightclubs of the day.
They continued to record to meet the terms of their record contract until their final album was released in 1971. Elliot's voice is noticeably weak on that album, as she herself was physically weak from crash dieting.
After the breakup of The Mamas & the Papas, Elliot went on to have a successful solo singing career. Her most successful recording during this period was 1968's ''Dream a Little Dream of Me'' from her solo album of the same name, released by Dunhill Records though it had originally been recorded for and released on the album ''The Papas & the Mamas Presented By The Mamas and the Papas'' earlier that year. She headlined briefly in Las Vegas at Caesar's Palace for the unusually lucrative pay of USD$40,000 per week, although her performances were not well reviewed.
She was a regular on TV talk shows and variety shows in the 1970s, including ''The Julie Andrews Hour'', ''The Mike Douglas Show'', ''The Andy Williams Show'', ''Hollywood Squares'', and ''The Carol Burnett Show''. She guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on ''The Tonight Show'' and appeared on that show 13 other times. Elliot also was a guest panelist for a week in late 1973 on the hit game show ''Match Game '73''. She appeared in the 1973 ''Saga of Sonora'', a TV music-comedy-Western special with stars of the day such as Jill St. John, Vince Edwards, Zero Mostel, and Lesley Ann Warren.
Throughout the early 1970s, Elliot continued her acting career as well. She had a featured role in the 1970 movie ''Pufnstuf'' and made guest-star acting appearances on TV's ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'', ''Young Dr. Kildare'', ''Love, American Style'', and ''The Red Skelton Show'', among others.
Apart from her time with Denny Doherty, Elliot was married twice. The first marriage, to bandmate Jim Hendricks, began in 1963. This was reportedly a purely platonic arrangement, however, to assist him in avoiding being drafted into the army during the Vietnam War. The marriage reportedly was never consummated and was annulled in 1968. In 1971, Elliot married journalist Donald von Wiedenman[1][2] That marriage ended in divorce after a few months.
Elliot gave birth to a daughter, Owen Vanessa Elliot, on April 26, 1967. She never publicly identified the father, but many years later, Michelle Phillips helped Owen locate her biological father. Owen grew up to become a singer as well and toured with former Beach Boy Al Jardine.[3]
At the height of her solo career in 1974, Elliot performed two sold-out concerts at the London Palladium. She telephoned Michelle Phillips after the final concert, utterly elated that she had received standing ovations each night. She then retired for the evening, and died in her sleep of a heart attack.[4] The New York Times reported, "Dr. Keith Simpson, a British pathologist, and Gavin Thurston, a London coroner, issued a report yesterday that ruled out the theory that "Mama" Cass Elliot choked to death on a ham sandwich."[5]
At Elliot's death, her sister, Leah Kunkel, received custody of Cass' daughter Owen, then just seven years old. Kunkel is also a singer and charted in 1984 as a member of the Coyote Sisters on the single "Straight From The Heart (Into Your Life)." Kunkel was interviewed by VH1 in 1997 and discussed her famous sister for the "Mamas & Papas" episode of the network's documentary series ''Behind The Music.''
An urban legend arose that Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich. Speaking to the press shortly after her body was discovered, the police noted that a partly eaten sandwich had been found in her room and speculated that she may have choked while eating it. When the coroner's autopsy was performed, no food was found in her trachea and the cause of death was determined to have been heart failure and that she had died in her sleep. But by then, the specious Fatal Ham Sandwich story was already making the rounds and the real cause of death was ignored by press and public.[6]
Another popular legend about Elliot is that her vocal range was improved by three notes after she was hit on the head by some copper tubing shortly before joining the group, while they were in the Virgin Islands. Elliot herself confirmed the story; in an interview with ''Rolling Stone'' magazine in 1968 she said,
Since her death, Mama Cass in general, and specifically the false legend surrounding the cause of her death, have been the butt of jokes in comedy routines, movies, and songs, by performers such as Frank Zappa, Adam Sandler, Denis Leary, Mike Myers (in the first ), TISM, Jack Black, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Robin Williams and others.
Examples:
★ On The Jim Rome Show emailers frequently reference Mama Cass' choking on a ham sandwich. Rome's typical response: "Well she didn't choke on a salad, did she?
★ On an episode of ''Sanford and Son'' called "The Card Sharps", Skeeter Matthews (Thalmus Rasulala) said, "You must be Poppa Sanford?" Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) replied, "No, I'm Mama Cass!"
★ The "ham sandwich" myth was used as a joke in ''. Having been defrosted after 30 years (1967-1997), Austin Powers is lamenting the fates of his friends from the 1960s. For Cass Elliot, he writes, "Mama Cass, deceased: ham sandwich."
★ Denis Leary makes a comment about Elliot by saying, "I think Mama Cass said it best when she said: All the Leaves are ''(choking sound)''. Monday ''(choking sound)''."
★ In Father of the Pride, Larry the lion insults a rude pig by yelling, "You people killed Mama Cass!"
★ In the film Stranger Inside, directed by Cheryl Dunye, when asked which woman would have the top bunk, the thinner inmate responded, "Do you think I would let Mama Cass and her fat ass sleep on top of me?"
★ In his "Dancin' and Pantsin'" song (off his 1997 album What's Your Name?), Adam Sandler sings, "Shake your big, round ass with the ghost of Mama Cass. (Blast from the past, the ghost of Mama Cass.)"
★ In the 2003 film, ''School of Rock'', there was a line cut out of the final version. "Mama Cass was a big lady, too." "Whatever happened to her?" "She died from choking on a ham sand- never mind, that's not the point."
★ In the first episode of the Australian comedy series ''Double the Fist'' during the "Fistory" segment, where the Womp was praising the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, he concludes with, "Iceberg, I think you deserve the Full Fist...for your power that remained unrivalled until a ham sandwich came out of nowhere to take on Mama Cass".
★ In the "Weird Al" Yankovic song, "Close, But No Cigar" from the 2006 album ''Straight Outta Lynwood'' there is a line, "She got me all choked up like Mama Cass."
★ In the TISM song, ''(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River'', there is a line, "Mama Cass' sandwhich? I ate the same!"
★ In the Foetus song, "The Throne of Agony", amongst other brutalities, there's the line "Yeah, I'm the one who gave the sandwich to Mama Cass".
★ A cruel joke has linked this myth with the demise of Karen Carpenter, who died of anorexia: "If Mama Cass had shared her sandwich with Karen Carpenter, they would both be alive today."
Other media have featured her music or referred to her in a more positive light, such as:
★ Her recording of "Make Your Own Kind of Music" is prominently featured in three episodes of the television series ''Lost'' — Man of Science, Man of Faith, Adrift, and Flashes Before Your Eyes — along with a sitar arrangement of the song in Live Together, Die Alone.
★ In the British film ''Beautiful Thing'' one of the supporting characters is obsessed with Elliot. Of the 16 tracks on the soundtrack album, 15 are songs by either Cass Elliot or The Mamas & the Papas.
★ Cass Elliot is one of the names mentioned by Alan Freed as an upcoming act in Stephen King's ''You Know They Got a Hell of a Band'', a short story revolving around a town inhabited by late music legends who perform a concert every night. This story is part of King's ''Nightmares and Dreamscapes'' book and the reference is left intact when the story was adapted for television in 2006.
★ The Crosby, Stills & Nash Greatest Hits album released in 2005 was dedicated to Cass Elliot
★ The song "Mama, I Remember You Now" by the Swedish artist Marit Bergman is a tribute to Mama Cass.
★ She is the subject of a stage production, ''The Songs of Mama Cass'', with Kristin Kapelli performing main vocals.
★ Elliott appeared as the voice for her own likeness in a guest episode of ''Scooby-Doo'', where she joked about her weight.
★ 1968: ''Dream a Little Dream'' - US #87
★ 1969: ''Bubblegum, Lemonade, And... Something for Mama'' - US #91
★ 1969: ''Make Your Own Kind of Music'' - US #169 (a reissue of ''Bubblegum, Lemonade...'' with the hit title song added)
★ 1971: ''Cass Elliot''
★ 1971: ''Mama's Big Ones'' (solo greatest hits) - US #194
★ 1971: ''Dave Mason and Mama Cass'' - US #49
★ 1972: ''The Road Is No Place for a Lady''
★ 1973: ''Don't Call Me Mama Anymore''
★ 1968: "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Mama Cass with the Mamas & the Papas) - US #12 Pop/#2 AC, UK #11
★ 1968: "California Earthquake" - US #67
★ 1969: "Move in a Little Closer, Baby" - US #58 Pop/#32 AC
★ 1969: "It's Getting Better" - US #30 Pop/#13 AC, UK #8
★ 1969: "Make Your Own Kind of Music" - US #36 Pop/#6 AC
★ 1970: "New World Coming" - US #42 Pop/#4 AC
★ 1970: "A Song That Never Comes" - US #99 Pop/#25 AC
★ 1970: "The Good Times Are Coming" - US #104 Pop/#19 AC
★ 1970: "Don't Let the Good Life Pass You By" - US #110 Pop/#34 AC
1. July 12, 1971 Time Magazine announcement of Elliot's marriage to von Wiedenman
2. For a photo, see the Official Cass Elliot Website.
3. http://www.superseventies.com/faq_beachboys.html
4. Staff report (July 30, 1974). Cass Elliot, Pop Singer, Dies; Star of the Mamas and Papas; A Hearty Performer. ''New York Times''
5. Staff report (August 6, 1974). Cass Elliot's Death Linked to Heart Attack; Notes on People. ''New York Times''
6. Snopes debunks story
★ Tribute and biography of Elliot
★ The true origin of the "hit on the head with a pipe" myth
★ Snopes report on the ham sandwich myth
★ Image of Cass Elliot's death certificate
★ Review of Cass' music
★
★ Find-A-Grave profile for Cass Elliot
'Cass Elliot' (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), born 'Ellen Naomi Cohen', was a noted American singer, best remembered as 'Mama Cass' of the pop quartet The Mamas & the Papas. After the group broke up, she had a successful solo career, releasing nine albums. Elliot was found dead in her hotel room in London from an apparent heart attack after two sold-out performances at the Palladium.
| Contents |
| Early life and career |
| The Mamas and the Papas |
| Solo career |
| Family and death |
| Urban legends |
| References to Cass Elliot in media |
| Solo discography |
| Albums |
| Singles |
| References |
| External links |
Early life and career
Ellen Cohen was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up there and in Alexandria, Virginia (a suburb of Washington, DC). She adopted the name "Cass" in high school – possibly, as Denny Doherty tells it, borrowing it from the actress Peggy Cass – but in any case, it was just 'Cass,' not 'Cassandra.' She assumed the surname Elliot sometime later, in memory of a friend who had died.
She started her acting career with a part in the play ''The Boy Friend'' while she was still in school. After leaving school, she went to New York City, where she appeared in ''The Music Man'' but lost the part of Miss Marmelstein in ''I Can Get It for You Wholesale'' to Barbra Streisand in 1962.
While working as a hat check girl at "The Showplace" in Greenwich Village, Elliot would sometimes sing, but it wasn't until she returned to the Washington area, to attend American University, that she began to pursue a singing career. As America's folk music scene was on the rise, Elliot met banjoist and singer Tim Rose and singer John Brown, and the three began performing as The Triumvirate. In 1963, James Hendricks replaced Brown and the trio was renamed The Big Three. Elliot's first recording, ''Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod,'' with The Big Three, was released by FM Records in 1963.
When Tim Rose left The Big Three in 1964, Elliot and Hendricks teamed up with Canadians Zal Yanovsky and Denny Doherty as The Mugwumps. This group lasted eight months, after which Cass performed as a solo act for a while. Yanovsky joined with John Sebastian to co-found The Lovin' Spoonful while Doherty joined The New Journeymen with John Phillips and his wife, Michelle. In 1965, Doherty finally convinced Phillips that Cass should join the group. She did so, officially, while they were vacationing in the Virgin Islands.
The Mamas and the Papas
Now that The New Journeymen had two female members, it needed a new name. According to Doherty, Elliot had the inspiration for the band's new name. Doherty writes on his website:
Doherty went on to say that the occasion marked the beginning of his affair with Michelle. Elliot was in love with Doherty (though married platonically to Jim Hendricks at the time), so was displeased when he told her about the affair. Doherty has said that Cass once proposed to him, but that he was so stoned at the time, he couldn't even respond.
Elliot, known for her sense of humor and optimism, was considered by some to be the most charismatic member of the group. Her warm, distinctive voice was a large factor in their success. She is best remembered for her vocals on the group's ''Billboard'' hits ''California Dreamin''', ''Monday Monday'', and ''Words of Love'', and particularly for the solo ''Dream a Little Dream of Me'', which the group recorded in 1968 after learning about the death of Fabian Andre, one of the men who co-wrote it, whom Michelle Phillips had met years earlier. Elliot's version is noteworthy for being a ballad, whereas almost all earlier recordings of "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (including one by Nat King Cole) had been quick, up-tempo versions — the song having actually been written in 1931 as a dance tune for the nightclubs of the day.
They continued to record to meet the terms of their record contract until their final album was released in 1971. Elliot's voice is noticeably weak on that album, as she herself was physically weak from crash dieting.
Solo career
After the breakup of The Mamas & the Papas, Elliot went on to have a successful solo singing career. Her most successful recording during this period was 1968's ''Dream a Little Dream of Me'' from her solo album of the same name, released by Dunhill Records though it had originally been recorded for and released on the album ''The Papas & the Mamas Presented By The Mamas and the Papas'' earlier that year. She headlined briefly in Las Vegas at Caesar's Palace for the unusually lucrative pay of USD$40,000 per week, although her performances were not well reviewed.
She was a regular on TV talk shows and variety shows in the 1970s, including ''The Julie Andrews Hour'', ''The Mike Douglas Show'', ''The Andy Williams Show'', ''Hollywood Squares'', and ''The Carol Burnett Show''. She guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on ''The Tonight Show'' and appeared on that show 13 other times. Elliot also was a guest panelist for a week in late 1973 on the hit game show ''Match Game '73''. She appeared in the 1973 ''Saga of Sonora'', a TV music-comedy-Western special with stars of the day such as Jill St. John, Vince Edwards, Zero Mostel, and Lesley Ann Warren.
Throughout the early 1970s, Elliot continued her acting career as well. She had a featured role in the 1970 movie ''Pufnstuf'' and made guest-star acting appearances on TV's ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'', ''Young Dr. Kildare'', ''Love, American Style'', and ''The Red Skelton Show'', among others.
Family and death
Apart from her time with Denny Doherty, Elliot was married twice. The first marriage, to bandmate Jim Hendricks, began in 1963. This was reportedly a purely platonic arrangement, however, to assist him in avoiding being drafted into the army during the Vietnam War. The marriage reportedly was never consummated and was annulled in 1968. In 1971, Elliot married journalist Donald von Wiedenman[1][2] That marriage ended in divorce after a few months.
Elliot gave birth to a daughter, Owen Vanessa Elliot, on April 26, 1967. She never publicly identified the father, but many years later, Michelle Phillips helped Owen locate her biological father. Owen grew up to become a singer as well and toured with former Beach Boy Al Jardine.[3]
At the height of her solo career in 1974, Elliot performed two sold-out concerts at the London Palladium. She telephoned Michelle Phillips after the final concert, utterly elated that she had received standing ovations each night. She then retired for the evening, and died in her sleep of a heart attack.[4] The New York Times reported, "Dr. Keith Simpson, a British pathologist, and Gavin Thurston, a London coroner, issued a report yesterday that ruled out the theory that "Mama" Cass Elliot choked to death on a ham sandwich."[5]
At Elliot's death, her sister, Leah Kunkel, received custody of Cass' daughter Owen, then just seven years old. Kunkel is also a singer and charted in 1984 as a member of the Coyote Sisters on the single "Straight From The Heart (Into Your Life)." Kunkel was interviewed by VH1 in 1997 and discussed her famous sister for the "Mamas & Papas" episode of the network's documentary series ''Behind The Music.''
Urban legends
An urban legend arose that Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich. Speaking to the press shortly after her body was discovered, the police noted that a partly eaten sandwich had been found in her room and speculated that she may have choked while eating it. When the coroner's autopsy was performed, no food was found in her trachea and the cause of death was determined to have been heart failure and that she had died in her sleep. But by then, the specious Fatal Ham Sandwich story was already making the rounds and the real cause of death was ignored by press and public.[6]
Another popular legend about Elliot is that her vocal range was improved by three notes after she was hit on the head by some copper tubing shortly before joining the group, while they were in the Virgin Islands. Elliot herself confirmed the story; in an interview with ''Rolling Stone'' magazine in 1968 she said,
References to Cass Elliot in media
Since her death, Mama Cass in general, and specifically the false legend surrounding the cause of her death, have been the butt of jokes in comedy routines, movies, and songs, by performers such as Frank Zappa, Adam Sandler, Denis Leary, Mike Myers (in the first ), TISM, Jack Black, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Robin Williams and others.
Examples:
★ On The Jim Rome Show emailers frequently reference Mama Cass' choking on a ham sandwich. Rome's typical response: "Well she didn't choke on a salad, did she?
★ On an episode of ''Sanford and Son'' called "The Card Sharps", Skeeter Matthews (Thalmus Rasulala) said, "You must be Poppa Sanford?" Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) replied, "No, I'm Mama Cass!"
★ The "ham sandwich" myth was used as a joke in ''. Having been defrosted after 30 years (1967-1997), Austin Powers is lamenting the fates of his friends from the 1960s. For Cass Elliot, he writes, "Mama Cass, deceased: ham sandwich."
★ Denis Leary makes a comment about Elliot by saying, "I think Mama Cass said it best when she said: All the Leaves are ''(choking sound)''. Monday ''(choking sound)''."
★ In Father of the Pride, Larry the lion insults a rude pig by yelling, "You people killed Mama Cass!"
★ In the film Stranger Inside, directed by Cheryl Dunye, when asked which woman would have the top bunk, the thinner inmate responded, "Do you think I would let Mama Cass and her fat ass sleep on top of me?"
★ In his "Dancin' and Pantsin'" song (off his 1997 album What's Your Name?), Adam Sandler sings, "Shake your big, round ass with the ghost of Mama Cass. (Blast from the past, the ghost of Mama Cass.)"
★ In the 2003 film, ''School of Rock'', there was a line cut out of the final version. "Mama Cass was a big lady, too." "Whatever happened to her?" "She died from choking on a ham sand- never mind, that's not the point."
★ In the first episode of the Australian comedy series ''Double the Fist'' during the "Fistory" segment, where the Womp was praising the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, he concludes with, "Iceberg, I think you deserve the Full Fist...for your power that remained unrivalled until a ham sandwich came out of nowhere to take on Mama Cass".
★ In the "Weird Al" Yankovic song, "Close, But No Cigar" from the 2006 album ''Straight Outta Lynwood'' there is a line, "She got me all choked up like Mama Cass."
★ In the TISM song, ''(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River'', there is a line, "Mama Cass' sandwhich? I ate the same!"
★ In the Foetus song, "The Throne of Agony", amongst other brutalities, there's the line "Yeah, I'm the one who gave the sandwich to Mama Cass".
★ A cruel joke has linked this myth with the demise of Karen Carpenter, who died of anorexia: "If Mama Cass had shared her sandwich with Karen Carpenter, they would both be alive today."
Other media have featured her music or referred to her in a more positive light, such as:
★ Her recording of "Make Your Own Kind of Music" is prominently featured in three episodes of the television series ''Lost'' — Man of Science, Man of Faith, Adrift, and Flashes Before Your Eyes — along with a sitar arrangement of the song in Live Together, Die Alone.
★ In the British film ''Beautiful Thing'' one of the supporting characters is obsessed with Elliot. Of the 16 tracks on the soundtrack album, 15 are songs by either Cass Elliot or The Mamas & the Papas.
★ Cass Elliot is one of the names mentioned by Alan Freed as an upcoming act in Stephen King's ''You Know They Got a Hell of a Band'', a short story revolving around a town inhabited by late music legends who perform a concert every night. This story is part of King's ''Nightmares and Dreamscapes'' book and the reference is left intact when the story was adapted for television in 2006.
★ The Crosby, Stills & Nash Greatest Hits album released in 2005 was dedicated to Cass Elliot
★ The song "Mama, I Remember You Now" by the Swedish artist Marit Bergman is a tribute to Mama Cass.
★ She is the subject of a stage production, ''The Songs of Mama Cass'', with Kristin Kapelli performing main vocals.
★ Elliott appeared as the voice for her own likeness in a guest episode of ''Scooby-Doo'', where she joked about her weight.
Solo discography
Albums
★ 1968: ''Dream a Little Dream'' - US #87
★ 1969: ''Bubblegum, Lemonade, And... Something for Mama'' - US #91
★ 1969: ''Make Your Own Kind of Music'' - US #169 (a reissue of ''Bubblegum, Lemonade...'' with the hit title song added)
★ 1971: ''Cass Elliot''
★ 1971: ''Mama's Big Ones'' (solo greatest hits) - US #194
★ 1971: ''Dave Mason and Mama Cass'' - US #49
★ 1972: ''The Road Is No Place for a Lady''
★ 1973: ''Don't Call Me Mama Anymore''
Singles
★ 1968: "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Mama Cass with the Mamas & the Papas) - US #12 Pop/#2 AC, UK #11
★ 1968: "California Earthquake" - US #67
★ 1969: "Move in a Little Closer, Baby" - US #58 Pop/#32 AC
★ 1969: "It's Getting Better" - US #30 Pop/#13 AC, UK #8
★ 1969: "Make Your Own Kind of Music" - US #36 Pop/#6 AC
★ 1970: "New World Coming" - US #42 Pop/#4 AC
★ 1970: "A Song That Never Comes" - US #99 Pop/#25 AC
★ 1970: "The Good Times Are Coming" - US #104 Pop/#19 AC
★ 1970: "Don't Let the Good Life Pass You By" - US #110 Pop/#34 AC
References
1. July 12, 1971 Time Magazine announcement of Elliot's marriage to von Wiedenman
2. For a photo, see the Official Cass Elliot Website.
3. http://www.superseventies.com/faq_beachboys.html
4. Staff report (July 30, 1974). Cass Elliot, Pop Singer, Dies; Star of the Mamas and Papas; A Hearty Performer. ''New York Times''
5. Staff report (August 6, 1974). Cass Elliot's Death Linked to Heart Attack; Notes on People. ''New York Times''
6. Snopes debunks story
External links
★ Tribute and biography of Elliot
★ The true origin of the "hit on the head with a pipe" myth
★ Snopes report on the ham sandwich myth
★ Image of Cass Elliot's death certificate
★ Review of Cass' music
★
★ Find-A-Grave profile for Cass Elliot
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