100% they weren't going to add her too the band cause she couldn't hit the high notes. They were down south. Place they were hanging were fixing a AC machine or soda dispenser. Any way mama came in the coil feel hit her on the head knocking her unconscious. After that mama Cas could hit those high notes. She was one in a lifetime. 🤘❤🤘
Always love The Mamas & the Papas a rock and roll Legends hard at work bringing music to our sweet ears always thought Mama Cass was a sweetie 👍👍👍👍👍✌✌✌✌😎😎😎
Momma cass has always had such an amazing influence in my life. This song made me so angry when I heard it because it’s absolutely disgusting that he was that cruel to such an amazing person. No matter what anyone said she held her head up high and I was so proud of her.
Few great groups like this captured their own history in an autobiographical beauty of a great tune like this. RIP the great Mama Cass and thank you for this great memory of the 60's.
This ballad is a one-of-a-kind tour de force! A masterpiece. The lyrics and the harmonies, telling a real-life story of how this music group came together. There simply isn't any other song like it in the Great American Songbook. It stands alone. 😊👍👍👍❤
"She loved it", says Michelle of the "noone's getting fat except Mama Cass" line. Except she didn't. She went along with it - like a lot of people who laugh at fat jokes at their expense - and it gnawed away at her. It also directly contributed to the crash diets and massive repeated rapid weight loss that led to her heart attack. It almost literally killed her.
Don't know about that, I think she showed a great sense of mischief/humor and irreverence all along ( "cue the tape" ) twirling the mic and in this vid at 0:45 she actually jokes about it . . . NOT sounding upset is she ! In that time ppl. often had a laugh at each other and 'took it on the chin'. WE just didn't take it seriously it was ALL in fun . . . you lot need to grow skin or grow up! because it seems oh so thin! Todays generations are just SO obsessed with political correctness that I don't believe you can think logically any more no matter how smart you think you are. Sorry if that upsets but you ppl. need to get a grip! So much B/s today is ok with you lot, but morality and decency is out the window, legalize this and that etc. etc. ever realized that most pedophiles are homosexuals? and in the west supposed Christians for all your gods' sake? and yet the slightest unimportant things get you going. . . . Futility! Show us where Cass told of her distress . . . can you? Also in OZ ✨
@@johnzuijdveld9585 Cass had to have been upset but she hid it very well, John Philips was absolutely horrid to her, he said her eyes were too close, she couldn't reach certain notes, made her do some takes 'till she collapsed from exhaustion, she had no choice but swallow her hurt
@@margaretmc4707 I know/agree the constant barrage would wear any-one down eventually but initially she was strong, mind you, she had been getting it since much earlier too, so her skin may've been thicker than most.
I can definitely understand why anyone would secretly resent it but put on a good face. However, a lot of people are stating this as a fact. I've yet to see any references to this being case. Also, the switch to everyone's getting fat except for Mama Cass indicates that the other meaning is appropriate. That being that she was the most successful one of the group as well as their friends, and then they all started getting bigger. And she could have done better going solo.
@@michaelsmith1262 I guess if you don't see multiple crash diets that contributed to her early death as evidence that the fat jokes affected her, then you're pretty determined not to see the evidence. Also, to see the "nobody's getting fat 'kept Mama Cass" line as good-natured humour that was only really intended as a reference to her success is to ignore all the context. It's unquestionably a snarky jibe at her weight, not only because it clearly is, but because Phillips was known by everyone to have a mile-wide nasty streak. Today he'd be called out for bullying. But in the 60s men like him got away with that kind of crap.
Pointing out each of the people as their names came up in song has been very helpful. I wish I could have shown this to my dad as it would have helped fill in a few gaps.
Wait hold on… I am 39 and when I was a kid I rode around with my Deddy in his old green truck listening to these old songs… I LOVED when they said “no ones getting fat except for mama cat!” I thought it was about a mama cat until RIGHT NOW! 😅
Zal Yanovsky had one the best restaurants/ eateries I've been to. Pan Chancho in Kinston Ontario. He had Chez Piggy there as well, which was more formal.
She's giggling at Cass' act of professional disobedience, "cue the tape". Audiences were supposed to think performers were performing and Cass blew the lid off the pretense. Denny breaks up too and John's delighted. Always good to hear the lost reprise of "becoming a reality" at the end. For the life o' me I can't figure out why they took that out in a later mix -- although in this video it sounds like they sung it live --- maybe another protest against that mix?
@@notvalidcharacters the look on John's face when she says cue the tape really cracks me up. He avoids strumming his guitar momentarily, making it even more obvious. It looks as though he feigns tweaking the tuning, which is hilarious!
@@joannecoletta4501 I notice they also cut out the first two bars, so the tape wasn't properly cued in the first place. Oof. Just to be pedantic, he's adjusting his capo, which of course is irrelevant for lip-synching, AND he's playing a 6-string where the record has a 12-string.
A lot of people may be wondering what they meant about "John and Mitchie getting kind of itchy..." Mitchie is their nickname for Michelle Phillips. "Michelle, John, and Denny gettin' very tuneful" was probably a reference to John Phillips, his then-wife Michelle, and Denny Doherty. They were all in the Mamas and Papas along with Mama Cass. Michelle Phillips is the only surviving member of that group.
Today, from an optics standpoint, these talented people could never be heard or seen. As a group they do not “fit” the optics of today’s alleged pop stars. Yet, they were a vocal tour de force,
I have to disagree with that sentiment. In the modern world the power of the internet has allowed many artists that would have stayed completely underground to flourish. It's easier now more than ever to find genuine talent so long as that talent actually puts there stuff out there to be found. These guys would've been picked up on the spot.
Its a great song. Cass had such great ideas for her parts. The joke is sad and nasty, though, it is such an unusual refrain it makes the song work. The truth is John Phillips kept her out of the group for quite while because of her weight despite the fact that they weren't making enough to even live on.
That Ms. Elliot had to endure that man! She and Denny had 10x the musical talent. John, the genius who abandoned his wife and infant for a teen, went on to sexually assault his daughter. Poor Mac hero-worshiped that creep.
I don't know know if she liked it or not. She didn't like being called "Mama Cass." Usually people that are big make jokes and laugh it off, but it doesn't mean deep down they feel that way.
You can tell john was fuming when cass said "cue the tape" and michelle laughing. Cass elliot was above them and they knew it! Hence their jeslously. It killed them that they wouldve been nothing without her.
Not true. Cass was Jewish.. they found nothing in her throat. She died of a heart attack brought on by diet pills she lost about 100lbs before her death.
❤ Michelle's giggle when Mama say "... que the tape"! Just beautiful!!
Whomever came up with the flute solo should be in some kind of Hall of Fame.
Isn't he Bud Shanks who also played with Astrud Gilberto?
The most powerful drug of the Sixties - of all times - music.
Mama Cass was the heart and soul of that band. She mentored so many musicians. Too bad she died young. So much talent
My dad played me these love him ❤
That's my dad ❤
mama cass was a beautiful person. she had a very low self esteem. I think that's why she got into drugs.
I love that mischievous grin and bounce Cass gives after she tells them to cue the tape. She was just genuinely funny and charismatic.
Cass had the most beautiful voice.
I remember the day the news of her death came on the radio. I was in the car with some friends and we were devastated.
Such an incredable lady with a beautiful voice.
@th Are we talking about singing voices, or beauty?
@th She died from a heart attack. Stop propagating cruel myths.
Jeeze, Cass Elliot was absolutely the star of the Mama's and the Pappa's. Yep, I'm old enough to say that!
Cue the tape! Famous words. There’s only one Mama Cass!
100% they weren't going to add her too the band cause she couldn't hit the high notes. They were down south. Place they were hanging were fixing a AC machine or soda dispenser. Any way mama came in the coil feel hit her on the head knocking her unconscious. After that mama Cas could hit those high notes. She was one in a lifetime. 🤘❤🤘
@@ronrossmore211 It is written all over Internet. It is told by Michelle and Denny on TH-cam. So?
@@ronrossmore211 fuccking rude
Great song
Hola, amiguito 🙋🏼♀️
Hermosísima ele, desearía responderte desde la cuenta original 😭❤️
One of the best Groups We ever had.
The best harmonising group ever, never to be surpassed.
@@alanhodges8839CSNY, Dead, Beatles, etc, they all harmonized in the days.
I remember when Mama Cass died. It was at a time when music was really changing. She is still missed.
One of the most ones that would make me happy
I’m happy because now we know Cass is the real genius in this group
Always love The Mamas & the Papas a rock and roll Legends hard at work bringing music to our sweet ears always thought Mama Cass was a sweetie 👍👍👍👍👍✌✌✌✌😎😎😎
This groovy tune is like wine it never ages it gets better with time ☮️
Love this so much ❤❤❤
Hit the airwaves when I was 8
Just a little kid 👧🏼
Nothing can get higher on the scale than The Mamas And Papas and Creeque Alley.
Momma cass has always had such an amazing influence in my life. This song made me so angry when I heard it because it’s absolutely disgusting that he was that cruel to such an amazing person. No matter what anyone said she held her head up high and I was so proud of her.
Are you talking about John that was cruel?
~Dutch
“Getting fat”was an expression for getting paid at that time cass was a jazz singer and making money
@@WhiteCalf136 its obviously a double entendre. you know what they were implying. be so fr
Absolutely wonderful 💎
What a song.. when I think the 60's this is it
brilliant
Love the song the band and the story behind this song. Fantastic!!
Love this so much. Self effacing humor. She had a wonderful voice & sense of humor.
She didnt wrote the text
God bless you, Mama Cass :)
Cass Elliot was the star of this group gone way too young
What a fun song. You can tell they were having a good time playing it.
Few great groups like this captured their own history in an autobiographical beauty of a great tune like this. RIP the great Mama Cass and thank you for this great memory of the 60's.
This ballad is a one-of-a-kind tour de force! A masterpiece. The lyrics and the harmonies, telling a real-life story of how this music group came together. There simply isn't any other song like it in the Great American Songbook. It stands alone. 😊👍👍👍❤
One of my favorite rock songs of all times!!! Love it !!!
& then there was one. hugs & thanks!
MICHELLE PHILLIPS IS SO BEAUTIFUL
"She loved it", says Michelle of the "noone's getting fat except Mama Cass" line. Except she didn't. She went along with it - like a lot of people who laugh at fat jokes at their expense - and it gnawed away at her. It also directly contributed to the crash diets and massive repeated rapid weight loss that led to her heart attack. It almost literally killed her.
Don't know about that, I think she showed a great sense of mischief/humor and irreverence all along ( "cue the tape" ) twirling the mic and in this vid at 0:45 she actually jokes about it . . . NOT sounding upset is she ! In that time ppl. often had a laugh at each other and 'took it on the chin'. WE just didn't take it seriously it was ALL in fun . . . you lot need to grow skin or grow up! because it seems oh so thin!
Todays generations are just SO obsessed with political correctness that I don't believe you can think logically any more no matter how smart you think you are. Sorry if that upsets but you ppl. need to get a grip!
So much B/s today is ok with you lot, but morality and decency is out the window, legalize this and that etc. etc. ever realized that most pedophiles are homosexuals? and in the west supposed Christians for all your gods' sake? and yet the slightest unimportant things get you going. . . . Futility!
Show us where Cass told of her distress . . . can you?
Also in OZ ✨
@@johnzuijdveld9585 Cass had to have been upset but she hid it very well, John Philips was absolutely horrid to her, he said her eyes were too close, she couldn't reach certain notes, made her do some takes 'till she collapsed from exhaustion, she had no choice but swallow her hurt
@@margaretmc4707 I know/agree the constant barrage would wear any-one down eventually but initially she was strong, mind you, she had been getting it since much earlier too, so her skin may've been thicker than most.
I can definitely understand why anyone would secretly resent it but put on a good face. However, a lot of people are stating this as a fact. I've yet to see any references to this being case. Also, the switch to everyone's getting fat except for Mama Cass indicates that the other meaning is appropriate. That being that she was the most successful one of the group as well as their friends, and then they all started getting bigger. And she could have done better going solo.
@@michaelsmith1262 I guess if you don't see multiple crash diets that contributed to her early death as evidence that the fat jokes affected her, then you're pretty determined not to see the evidence. Also, to see the "nobody's getting fat 'kept Mama Cass" line as good-natured humour that was only really intended as a reference to her success is to ignore all the context. It's unquestionably a snarky jibe at her weight, not only because it clearly is, but because Phillips was known by everyone to have a mile-wide nasty streak. Today he'd be called out for bullying. But in the 60s men like him got away with that kind of crap.
Beautiful voices and song. They are both compelling and intriguing to me.
Who really would ever think?
Memories of Music & the 60's ♡♡♡
❤ love potion n07
One of the coolest videos I've seen about these wonderful talents.
Group history in a song, a very good song.
One of the greatest driving around sing out loud songs of all time! Love the way you put this together!
My dear old man loved these songs
Ahh! they were so good lyrically and together the sound was magic, it took more than 1 to make them great, and so inventive!
Tremendous harmonies, different sounds, only recorded for two years. Drama & personalities got in the way. When it was show time they were on.
Still fantastic in 2024. ❤
Oh this song is so good it just gives me goosebumps
Pointing out each of the people as their names came up in song has been very helpful. I wish I could have shown this to my dad as it would have helped fill in a few gaps.
Great music
wow the nostaglia !! very moving . absolute classic brian
Love that song
Together
Friends
Mama was a beautiful soul
Wait hold on… I am 39 and when I was a kid I rode around with my Deddy in his old green truck listening to these old songs… I LOVED when they said “no ones getting fat except for mama cat!” I thought it was about a mama cat until RIGHT NOW! 😅
Cool story!! 😂
The difference between the Mamas & The Papas and the singers of today is that The Mamas & The Papas could sing. I mean, really sing.
I am sorry, but that is insane, worst bullshit.
dedicated to my mom and dad I miss you and love you
NICE VIDEO! I STILL LOVE THIS SONG! THANKS FOR SHARING! R.K. 3/16/2021.
Zal Yanovsky had one the best restaurants/ eateries I've been to. Pan Chancho in Kinston Ontario. He had Chez Piggy there as well, which was more formal.
This song I had noticed was out the same year I was born.
Ok, that little giggle by Michelle at the very beginning. Anyone else catch that?
She's giggling at Cass' act of professional disobedience, "cue the tape". Audiences were supposed to think performers were performing and Cass blew the lid off the pretense. Denny breaks up too and John's delighted.
Always good to hear the lost reprise of "becoming a reality" at the end. For the life o' me I can't figure out why they took that out in a later mix -- although in this video it sounds like they sung it live --- maybe another protest against that mix?
@@notvalidcharacters the look on John's face when she says cue the tape really cracks me up. He avoids strumming his guitar momentarily, making it even more obvious. It looks as though he feigns tweaking the tuning, which is hilarious!
@@joannecoletta4501 I notice they also cut out the first two bars, so the tape wasn't properly cued in the first place. Oof.
Just to be pedantic, he's adjusting his capo, which of course is irrelevant for lip-synching, AND he's playing a 6-string where the record has a 12-string.
She sucks
I love Mama Cass
Great video!
Mama Cass sure could dance the weight didn't keep her from getting down
Scary
Greetings
A lot of people may be wondering what they meant about "John and Mitchie getting kind of itchy..." Mitchie is their nickname for Michelle Phillips. "Michelle, John, and Denny gettin' very tuneful" was probably a reference to John Phillips, his then-wife Michelle, and Denny Doherty. They were all in the Mamas and Papas along with Mama Cass. Michelle Phillips is the only surviving member of that group.
Today, from an optics standpoint, these talented people could never be heard or seen. As a group they do not “fit” the optics of today’s alleged pop stars. Yet, they were a vocal tour de force,
A little before my time, but I like the songs and lyrics
I have to disagree with that sentiment. In the modern world the power of the internet has allowed many artists that would have stayed completely underground to flourish. It's easier now more than ever to find genuine talent so long as that talent actually puts there stuff out there to be found. These guys would've been picked up on the spot.
They didn’t fit the optics then but…. Then they opened up and sang and didn’t sound like any other.
Quality!
A brief groovy time in history..
That MC quin guy seems like a great lad.
Imagine being there.
That was TRIFLING to say “no one’s getting fat but Mama Cass”. That was just CRUEL ASF
One hellava band.my God killer.
My dad loved this group till he died in 1998 to lung cancer im an ex dj xxxx
I've got a feeling Cass didn't find their joke as funny as they did.
you are WRONG, as told by Michelle in the docu series Laurel Canyon.
Probably didn’t bother her cuz skin was thicker back then
@@joed7274 it bothered her big time
Agreed.
Good Sport...She was ths Most Special...How Ironic...We Love CASS
RIP
Its a great song. Cass had such great ideas for her parts. The joke is sad and nasty, though, it is such an unusual refrain it makes the song work. The truth is John Phillips kept her out of the group for quite while because of her weight despite the fact that they weren't making enough to even live on.
And back then looks mattered even less because it was more about the radio
@@davemcdonald8790 I wish it was like that today tbh
That Ms. Elliot had to endure that man! She and Denny had 10x the musical talent. John, the genius who abandoned his wife and infant for a teen, went on to sexually assault his daughter. Poor Mac hero-worshiped that creep.
I don’t think it was a mean joke. I think “getting fat” was an expression for getting paid. She was the only one making any money.
@@michaelchodge I’m sure that’s true but it’s not first most people think of and I’m sure he was aware of that.
Awesome
Inspiration in part for Fairport's Come All Ye????
Cool
❤❤❤
Barry McGuire first recorded California Dreamin' and they literally rerecorded the lead vocal and replaced his voice over the backing instruments.
Yeah, I definitely don’t think Cass liked that fat line.
For my mother Myrna.
Mama Cass was one HOT chick.
I don't know know if she liked it or not. She didn't like being called "Mama Cass." Usually people that are big make jokes and laugh it off, but it doesn't mean deep down they feel that way.
There are a lot of Momma Cass at the Walmart today
Cue the tape 😂😂😂
Booootful,
just reminded Chynna
And that is a true fact!
😍
None of the names mentioned in this song are as well known today as Momma Cass. Seems like she got the last laugh.
Only Michelle Phillips is alive
1967
❤❤❤🎼🎤🎙🎧
Mama Cass was honest, cue the tape. Lip syncing, how many bands or singers would admit to that. A great song
They were not lip syncing on this song, they were singing live over a backing track.
You can tell john was fuming when cass said "cue the tape" and michelle laughing. Cass elliot was above them and they knew it! Hence their jeslously. It killed them that they wouldve been nothing without her.
🐕😁🕺🫂💃😁🐩
ahhhh THE HELP IS HERE!
It's Sad We Lost MaMa Cass To A Ham Samdwich!!!
Not true. Cass was Jewish.. they found nothing in her throat. She died of a heart attack brought on by diet pills she lost about 100lbs before her death.
Tiktok brought me here due to the mama cass lyric
only 32 when Cass died...
Amu
i think that is so fucked up what they said about mama cass getting fat..then she had to sing it
Can’t agree with you more mean.
This isn’t live.
Did she care? Most people wouldn’t have it.
And everyone's getting fat except mamas cats lol
@Tomes? @#ShakeN bakers? @#MischEs? @#Win? @Checkers? Chesters