#MAMA CASS ELLIOT

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Bon soir ❤️💤🇺🇲 🛏 ❤️

Mama Cass Elliot 🎶 Dream a Little Dream of Me

(Smothers Brothers Shows)

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"Make Your Own Kind of Music"

Original by Mama Cass Elliot

Covered by Alex Lahey

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The AV Geeks Film Archive, curated by Skip Elsheimer, is a rich vein of 60s, 70s, and early 80s education films and ephemera. My latest obsession from this pile is this TV station sign off film full of Air Force ROTC propaganda set to a corny synthesizer cover of the national anthem... followed by Mama Cass Elliot.

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Just A Bit Of Holiday Spirit ...

I came across this post over on Yadadarcyyada’s blog and it even made this ol’ grinch smile and feel warm ‘n fuzzy inside, so I figured you guys could use a bit of holiday cheer right about now, too!!! Thank you, Donna, for allowing me to share this post, to spread the joy!!! You Gotta Make Your Own Kind of Christmas Music

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Make your own kind of music, sing your own special song

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Song of the day: “It’s Getting Better”... By Mama Cass Elliot 

The song rose to Number 8 in the UK weekly charts

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Michelle Phillips and Cass Elliot in September 1966

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Cass Elliot, June 1972🧵🧶

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This post is to remember the singer Cass Elliot who tragically died due to fatphobia. To put it simply, an entire life of cruelty about Cass Elliot's fatness caused her to resort to starvation diets, substance misuse, and what very well could have been an eating disorder. She attempted to survive the fatphobia by playing the fatphobic, stereotypical role of the "funny fat person." Not even in death was she allowed to escape fatphobia, as her tragic death was used as a fat joke by spreading a rumor that she had died by "gluttony." More specifically: choking on a sandwich. Despite that not being true, people continue to believe that debunked myth today. If not for this fatphobic society, Cass Elliot, an incredibly talented singer, would not have died at age 32, involuntarily leaving her only daughter parentless, and likely would have still been alive today.

If you're not sure who Cass Elliot was, this is one of her most iconic songs with her former band:

And here is a solo performance by her. Some people might recognize this song since it was apparently used for a TikTok trend:

For more details about the horrendous fatphobia she endured her entire 32 years, here is a video and two articles that explain. A trigger warning for the second article since it uses the slur "ob*se" and "overweight."

In memory of her, please do not call her "Mama Cass." She hated that nickname because it was used specifically due to fatphobic stereotypes.

If anyone needed an example of how deadly fatphobia has been for centuries, I hope you'll think of Cass Elliot, one of the plethora of people who have been killed by fat people's systemic oppression and still faces oppression to this day while 6 feet under.

-Mod Worthy

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CASS ELLIOT in LAUREL CANYON (2020) — dir. Alison Ellwood

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Cass Elliot (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974) 🎤

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♫ Leaving On A Jet Plane (Redux) ♫

This is a repeat of a song that I played in October of 2018 and again in October 2019 to mark the death of singer John Denver in a plane crash on October 12th, 1997.  Listen to what Mama Cass has to say at the beginning, for I think that her words back when they did this song are every bit as relevant today as they were when they sang this song in 1972. Yesterday marked the 21st anniversary of…