Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's no other musician quite like Mama Cass. As a member of the Mamas & the Papas, she established herself as one of the most ...

SNL created a hilarious sketch about Mama Cass' song "Make Your Own Kind of Music" being forgotten and then suddenly used in movies. The sketch features Mama Cass fighting back against executives who ...

Owen Elliot-Kugell with her mother Cass Elliot in 1974 Owen Elliot-Kugell will always remember the last day she spent with her mother, Cass Elliot. “She took me to the airport to get on a plane by ...

For decades, Owen Elliot-Kugell had to put up with hearing a cruel rumor about how her mother died. "Mama" Cass Elliot, a singer in the ‘60s group The Mamas & The Papas, died after performing a series ...

Contrary to popular myth, Mama Cass Elliot did not die from choking on a ham sandwich, her daughter is keen for people to know. On the eve of the 50 th anniversary of the death of the songstress with ...

Owen Elliot-Kugell was just seven years old when her mother, “Mama” Cass Elliot, died of a heart attack in 1974. Since then, she’s tried to untangle the myth of the hippie icon — especially the ...

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Known as Mama Cass, Elliot was married twice, first to musician Jim Hendricks in 1963, which was annulled in 1968, and a second marriage to journalist Donald von Wiedenman in 1971, which lasted just a ...

Owen Elliot-Kugell was only seven years old when her mother died unexpectedly. And though her mom’s birth certificate read “Ellen Naomi Cohen,” fans around the world knew the woman with the powerhouse ...

A half century after her tragic early death at age 32, Mama Cass Elliot remains a legendary figure in popular music. In the 1960s she rose to national and international prominence as one of the ...