"Mama" Cass Elliot, a singer in the ‘60s group The Mamas & The Papas, died after performing a series of sold-out shows in ...

with the classic lineup of Mama Cass, Denny Doherty and John and Michelle Phillips. The Mamas & the Papas were at the forefront of hippie pop from 1965 to 1968, and Elliot had much to do with ...

Still, Cass Elliot carved a place for herself in pop culture in a society still obsessed with maintaining an acceptable (read: skinny) figure. When you think of The Mamas and the Papas ...

Meanwhile, Elliot, better known as Mama Cass, rose to fame as a member of The Mamas and the Papas in the 1960s. She died in 1974 at the age of 32. “The most important (and often trickiest ...