Yeah, I am the type of person to always be moved by a well written or well spoken word. It is rare in pop that there exist such actually useful lyrics.
They treated her like crap because of her size. And she was Amazing!! They lost the most beautiful diamond they ever had!! And because of that she didn't love herself that I wish she had. You're missed Mama Cass! RIP 💜😮
I was bullied in high school by a girl named Jean. Every chance she got she'd call me "Mama Cass." It destroyed me back then but all I can say now is "Thanks for the compliment, Jean." RIP beautiful Cass Elliott.
We can appreciate people like her now that the world is devoid of any real talent. There was no agenda and nothing fake about it and no computers. I loved her in HR Pufnstuf! I miss all that.
Here’s my personal list I created (strictly 1960-1979). BEST FEMALE SINGERS 1960s & 1970s: *best overall female: Lay Down/Candles in the Rain (melanie safka) Monday, Monday & California Dreamin (Mama Cass of the mamas & the Papas) Psychedelic: White Rabbit (Grace slick) Venus (shocking blue) Protest music: The Night They drove old Dixie Down (Joan Baez) One Tin Soldier (Dixie Lee Stone & the Original Caste) Baroque pop: as tears go by (Marianne Faithful) Different drum (Linda Ronstadt) Breakup song: Both sides now (Joni Mitchell) You don’t own me (Leslie Gore) Rockabilly: Jolene (Dolly Parton) Delta Dawn (Tanya tucker) Blues Rock: Because the night (patti smith) It’s a heartache (Bonnie Tyler) Bubble Gum: Don’t sleep in the subway (petula Clark) I’ll never find another you (the seekers) Folk: Close to You (Karen Carpenter) (Leaving on a jet plane) Peter Paul Mary Southern: Ode to Billie Joe (Bobbie Gentry) The lights went out in Georgia (Vicki Lawrence) New Wave: Cherry Bomb (The runaways) Denis (Blondie) Ballad: Windmills of your mind (Dusty Springfield) To Sir With Love (Lulu) Power Pop: gypsies, tramps, & thieves (Cher) Knowing me knowing you (ABBA) Orchestral Soul: Mahogany (Diana ross) MacArthur Park (Donna Summer) Pianist: the way I always heard it should be (Carly Simon) It’s too late (Carole king) Psychedelic Soul: Age of Aquarius (5th Dimension Marilyn McCoo) Hurdy Gurdy Man (eartha kitt) Black folk: Band of Gold (Freda Payne) Les Fleurs (Minnie riperton) 60s Girl Band: Leader of the pack (shangri las) Nowhere to Run to (Vandellas) Spiritual: The Lord’s Prayer (Sister Janet Meade) Turn, Turn, Turn (Judy Collins) Lounge: There’s always something there to remind me (Dionne Warwick) These boots were made for walking (Nancy Sinatra) Orchestral: Where the boys are (Connie Francis) At last (Etta James)
Yes down in the bunker! Seeing that got me back to this song otherwise it had disappeared in my memory. After that episode I had to get a copy of this fantastic song!
Seeing Desmond wake up and get ready for his day while he played this song, unmatched! One of the best TV series ever to exist and some of the best music choices as well, this song will forever live with me!
Who else replays this song over and over again? I usually play this song at least 5 times back to back. Love this song and Mama Cass. A voice from the heavens.
I do I love the song and I love Mama Cass' voice she was an amazing singer at a time when lyrics were written to inspire people to be themselves and not to follow "the crowd". Yet another great singer ho was taken too soon.You are missed Mama Cass.
Sammy was right- she was incredible! I wish she'd of lived longer- she helped shape my childhood and made it ok to b unique and yourself!!! What a great voice and spirit!!!
She was one of the rare ones, like Ethel Merman and Reba McIntyre (among a few others), who had such a distinctive a distinctive voice that you could recognize it from just one word or sentence. Many of today's singers don't have such extremely unique voices.
Oh, I think everyone she worked with "knew" that..she's an ICON .Singing acapella (Heartaches etc., ) I love the oldies... Perfect pitch IS very rare. I have "relative" pitch...but Mama Cass just " floated her voice through both the alto and the soprano so strongly" as if singing was absolutely effortless! What a great lady! You can hear her taking her "controlled" breaths between phrases...called " evenly executed breathing" I think, not sure. And the LA DE DA parts, Do viewers get the "feeling" that those were the "notes" she wanted a guitarist to play FOR her somehow ? When others sing her song, they always leave that part out; I think it's her special "composing on the spot?" What a great lady and singer !
No, It's good, but " Dream" was and still IS, MS Cass Elliott!Singing acapella (Heartaches etc., ) I love the oldies... Perfect pitch IS very rare. I have "relative" pitch...but Mama Cass just " floated her voice through both the alto and the soprano so strongly" as if singing was absolutely effortless! What a great lady! You can hear her taking her "controlled" breaths between phrases...called " evenly executed breathing" I think, not sure. And the LA DE DA parts, Do viewers get the "feeling" that those were the "notes" she wanted a guitarist to play FOR her somehow ? When others sing her song, they always leave that part out; I think it's her special "composing on the spot?" What a great lady and singer !
does anyone else get goose bumps at around 2:06? Incredible... It gets me every time. One of the Best Female vocalist in her era. A voice made from the heavens.
+Kayla B back in the day..cass and Karen carpenter had the most beautiful voices...i had to be a closeted listener of them to maintain my acid rock image...
I know what you mean. That was such a shocker scene for me. I just started to like Zach, then it happened. i was not ready for that. This song will always send a little uneasy feeling in my head, whenever I hear it, thanks to that specific scene.
one of the greatest most distinctive voices in the popular music industry … you could always tell when mama cass was singing as no one sounded like her she was an angel in disguise x
Really? You are either joking or you are hard of hearing. Cass had a very powerful voice but it has an abrasive edge to it. It is not a smooth voice. Listen to a voice like Alicia Keys and then the abrasiveness of Cass's voice will stun you. Although I acknowledge that Cass had good pipes and musical talent, I actually can't stand to listen to loud, caberet, Broadway show, belt-it-out voices like Cass, Bet Midler, Ethel Mermon. It is a a bombastic style and not smooth and velvety and pleasant. My opinion.
You can give your opinion which I respect. We all have different tastes. What you don’t need to do is say “you’re hard of hearing.” The opening up with a demeaning comment is just so unnecessary.
boo hoo, it was teasing. I will say though, not teasingly, you are very histrionic for a guy. When you post on social media that no voice comes close to Cass Elliot then you do open yourself up for people being perplexed and commenting. Very perplexed as if you hear differently than everyone else. LOL Don't post ridiculous opinions if you can't take some ribbing. (lighten up)@@ubsamexbill1
Straight up legend. Cass always sung with a lot of heart and soul. She could blast out a note and harmonize a chorus with equal ease. Heavenly voice and a life cut way too short.
..and Desmond puts the record on the player in the Hatch :)...simply an amazing song!..what shocks me is, when doing some research on this song, it seems it didn't chart very high when it came out...why??..mind boggling that it didn't, has all the makings of a late '60's pop #1....
I am sorry that no one can leave their comments here. I had to cut that option because there were vicious and very inappropriate remarks ( i seriously believe in respecting the dead and found the hideous remarks evil). Sadly i have to also lose the opportunity to hear other's good and loving remarks. I just wanted to say thank you so much to all of you who agree with me concerning the loveliness of miss Cass Elliot. God bless her eternally and may she be singing among the choirs of angels.
Linda I agree she's the only one of the 4 that had a successful solo career. It would be nice if she were alive and could look back on her achievements!
Wow She was already 19 years dead when I first open my senses about this life and now listening to her music is astounding...Indeed music touches generation to generation.. I just discovered her music just yesterday..
+Larry L but the truth is that if anybody of you see her at work or taking the bus, only a few of people would notice the fact that she's beautiful..... u know what i mean???
Wow! This is my first time seeing Mama Elliot perform on video. The energy I feel radiating from her is delightful; I promised I would just listen to her sing, but it was infectious and I had to sing along!
Truly a one-of-a-kind incredible voice-deep and resonant, with the kind of power and positivity that only comes from a tough life. Even in her own time, she was mocked for her size, but she made light of it (see “Creeque Alley”) and used it to fuel her art. A voice for the angels. Thank you, Miss Cass.
My mom loved this song. I will forever wish for the opportunity to be along side her, listening and loving this song. Some things just aren’t meant to be. I love you mom xx
This was back in the day when not all film/TV/pop/rock stars all looked alike. Not that cosmetic surgery and fad diets didn't exist in the early '70s, it's just that not everyone was doing it so they could look like everyone else. Kind of refreshing when you think of it.
I have often thought that. Apparently when Lou Grade met them (she was actually the driver) he liked the way they looked and he could not, of course ignore Mama Cass's powerhouse vocals. He signed all four (much to the disgust of John Philips who thought she was too fat.) Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. However, back in the 70s you could probably get away with being a tad overweight, now even size zero does not seem to be zero enough and image is everything. Mama Cass would not have a hope in hell in our image conscious world.
una mckillen I actually got that idea from and editorial in the NY Times when the actor Harold Gould died. He was a character actor who played specific roles that, quite frankly, do not exist anymore. (He played, among other things, Kid Twist in The Sting.) They were the ones who spoke about how everyone in entertainment today looked the same. TV today all much too cookie cutter. All the guys are blonde or light brown haired, muscular but with a three day stubble that gives them a tired, boyish vulnerability. All the girls are leggy and hot and identical. (I can't watch talk shows because every chick on every one is a cutie in a little black dress who uses the word "excited" in every other sentence. It's a real bore.) Mama Cass used her brash outlook, her powerful voice and her Jewish mama charm to create a persona that was warm, comical and entertaining. You CARED about her. You wanted to know her, hang out with her and have her sing for you and your friends.
arkady714 I do so agree, particularly about the guys and the stubble. Advertisers now use that tired, boyish vulnerability to sell every product imaginable to the modern "dad" (an advertiser's construct bearing no resemblance to reality, even with the stubble). The "girls", well they sure as hell ain't the mothers so they are the ever young "cuties". I have noticed in modern advertising the men do the parenting and the women speak in cutesie, cutesie little voices and preen - my hair, my skin, my nails, my hair-free under-arms. Mama Cass was the absolute antidote to all of that. From her biography she was funny, ironic, kind, giving and talented. Without her no Lovin' Spoonful, no Crosby, Stills and Nash and possibly no Mamas and the Papas. She was, after all, half of The Mamas. You are right. You cared about her. I sure did and I hate the way internet trolls now traduce her memory.
una mckillen Let's not also forget the required cute and light hearted ukulele music that accompanies any ad that sells anything from food to insunrance to adult diapers. The announcer - with a high pitched, boyish and unthreatening voice -will then explain that Mr. or Ms. X has a problem and/or need that any normal person - including you - has...and that it can all be combatted and remedied with XYZ. It's all become quite cliche.
Ive just very recently learnt about the mamas and the papas and cass and denny both stood out to me and now if finding out ive been listening to them for years, just now realising and appreciating the people who made them.
Wow I only remember the song from listening to radio two in the morning when I was 8ish . Im 48 nows And I really endeared to mw the song of been a individual ❤ its !
This is me now 62 years old sitting in the pub pumping the jukebox. And i never fail to get somebody criticise my choice of music. So i educate them by putting this song on because it says exactly what i want to say but so much better.
It's because of Cass Elliott that I currently sing kareoke...which I NEVER imagine that I could! Now where I sing kareoke, they all call me Selena from Houston, Texas. But, I remind them that I'm NOT Selena.😂 I absolutely LOVE Cass' voice...so I am going to begin singing her songs at kareoke. I actually sang Miley Cyrus'"Flowers" and the ENTIRE restaurant AND Bar went WILD and gave me a Standing Ovation!!!😮
Mama Cass had a beautiful singing voice, and a beautiful soul. She had beautiful hair, and dressed beautifully. She did not get the credit she should had musically (loved her singing with The Mama's and the Papas too).
