Mama” Cass Elliot

Mama” Cass Elliot
The fat one in The Mamas and Papa’s , Mama Cass was known for her rich voice and outgoing personality. Rock legend has it that she could never hit the high notes until she was whacked on the head with a lead pipe while tripping on acid in the Virgin Islands. In 1966 the group released their debut album which featured their biggest hits, “Monday, Monday”,”California Dreamin” and “Go Were You Wanna Go”. Unfortunately none of the band members could keep their hands off of each other. Drugs,booze and free-for-all fuck fests eventually destroyed the band. After the “Mama’s and Papa’s” broke-up she embarked on a sucessful solo career. In the early seventies she recorded an album with Dave Mason which bombed. She then had a hit single with a remake of the 1932 song “Dream a Little Dream for Me”. While performing in England she died in London July 29th, 1974 at the age of 32 after supposivedly choking on a ham sandwich. Family members insist the “ham sandwich” theory is hogwash. They maintain this was assumed by the London authorities because a half-eaten ham sandwich was found on the nightstand. An autopsy later revealed the cause of death to be heart failure brought on by bouts of obesity and rapid weight loss