Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 7, Owen Elliot-Kugell was told that her mother, singer Cass Elliot, wouldn't be coming home again. "I remember thinking to ...

She became one of the nicest kids in town. In her breakout role, Blonsky portrayed Tracy Turnblad in the movie musical adaptation of Hairspray, lending her voice to hits like “Good Morning Baltimore” ...

They had one of the most singular sounds of the sixties and seventies and when it came time to name their group,The Mamas & the Papas did it their own way. In September 1965, the foursome met with ...

The death of the legendary Mamas & Papas singer sent shockwaves across the world on July 29, 1974. No one was more shocked, however, than the people closest to Cass Elliot. Those who knew and loved ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following their work on A Complete Unknown, Searchlight Pictures’ Academy Award-nominated Bob Dylan biopic directed by James Mangold and starring Timothée Chalamet, Veritas Entertainment has launched ...

There was no singer like the silky voiced 1960s superstar Cass Elliot. The lead singer of the Mamas and the Papas was the Adele of her time, the breakout star from the famed foursome that had major ...

One of The Monkees’ songs has a line about The Mamas & the Papas’ Mama Cass. The song also references The Beatles. The track was a huge hit. The Monkees took more control over their songs as the 1960s ...

The Mamas & The Papas enjoyed an incredible stretch of success in the 60s, proving that the vocal group approach still had legs in the psychedelic rock era. But theirs was a relatively brief heyday.

Of all the sun-soaked grooves that were coming out of California in the ’60s, those made by The Mamas & The Papas are some of the most influential. With a mix of male and female members—John Phillips, ...