“Mama” Cass Elliott died 50 years ago today

We need a biopic so badly.

I agree R1

Who will play the Ham sandwich who killed Mama Cass?

Will Chriss Metz play the pig from which the sandwich was derived.?

Jinx.

Deploying the hackneyed ham sandwich joke is a quick way to reveal you're a low rent cunt.

Well, WHERE were you when you heard the news?

You say low rent cunt like it’s a bad thing…

I wasn't even alive when she was, but I always fantasize that she and I are besties. I just know we wouldn't gotten along famously! She would've made the best fag hag!

Mama Cass checks every box of a badass faghag

It was the summer before my senior years of high school, R6, & I was working as a stock boy for a medical supply company. My father picked me up from work & I heard the news on his car radio.

R8 So you dream a little dream of me?

[quote] You say low rent cunt like it’s a bad thing…

She certainly wasn't a low-carb cunt.

Viola Davis IS the ham sandwich!!!!!

Viola Davis in the same sentence as ‘ham’ is redundant.

They’ll probably cast a thin back lesbian Muslim.

R14. I’ll see your redundant with a reductive.

I was eight. My dad told me when he got home from work the evening of the 30th. I guess i melted down as only an eight year old xan do, to the point where it became a familial reference for histrionic grief. I loved her and truly was crushed by her passing for several weeks.

That said, she was Allan Carr's clay to mold at the end. What could have been - a Love Boat pairing with Sir Monte Rock III, the inevitable Disco album, and I bet she would have gotten to Nelson Riddle years before Linda.

Maybe a James Bond theme song….

FYI crash dieting did her heart in (lipid infiltration of the myocardium), NOT a ham sandwich. She in fact had virtually nothing in her digestive tract at death. She was merely 32 years old.

In a interview she once spoke of peeing blood after losing 80 lbs in a month or three. 🤯😥

Naomi Cohen detested the Mama Cass moniker at the end of her short, short life.

She died in swanky Mayfair in London in flat 12 of this building. I walk by this place regularly. Once someone left a little shrine on the pavement.. No, it wasn’t a ham sandwich, just some flowers and a note.

I think this calls for a re-watching of Beautiful Thing!

I love Kim from EastEnders, Tameka Epson, in that film so much.

If she were still alive she would be Datalounge’s favorite

GREAT BIG FAT PERSON not Mindy Cohn.

I remember I was in the tanning salon when I heard that Mama Cass Elliot was gone. They say that only the good die young but that isn't true where I come from in Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon.

Cass in one of those "I didn't know she was a Jew" stars who un Jewed her name from Cohen to Elliot

Sigh, what a voice

Did you ever own a homemade apple pie?

She probably regrets singing for her supper since it killed her.

Have we established yet that there have been rumors she died eating a ham sandwich, but that they weren't true? Because they're never mentioned.

Yes.

She choked on the ham sandwich R29. She didn't get to eat it.

She made her own kind of music.

What matters, R10, is that you (over)reacted like this...

Still can't believe this exists. Exquisite.

I'm available!

She was more likable and talented than Barbra S

Does no one remember me? My voice was just as good, I had many hit songs, and I was very large. Very.

I was with a college summer theatre in Pennsylvania when I heard the news.

I sucked my first dick about a week later.

My brother saw the "Mamas & the Papas" at a Lake Eerie Resort in the late '80s when the lineup consisted of Spanky McFarlane & Mackenzie Phillips as the Mamas.

How many dicks have you sucked now, R38?

She walked so that Lizzo could waddle

[quote] Deploying the hackneyed ham sandwich joke is a quick way to reveal you're a low rent cunt.

I was a child at the time, but the ham sandwich story was everywhere for a long time. It would have been better to have the real cause known and used to educate the public on how obesity will kill you.

Where is Lizzo by the way?

Has the ham sandwich commented?

This is my favorite performance of hers. The idea that Jesus was a cross maker is some kind of weird sectarian thing, but the performance in her cover is stunning.

R45 Jesus Was a Crossmaker was written by Judee Sill, who did have a bit of that 70s religiosity mixed in with her music. Some of her stuff is amazing, though.

Had no idea Cass covered that. I know Linda R did too.

Died in the same apartment where Keith Moon overdosed himself four years later (also aged 32).

Back in the day when singers could actually sing...

Those were the days.

Cass Elliott died of a cardiac event. They initially thought she may have died of an overdose and thought it would be better to say there was half a ham sandwich on her nightstand and perhaps she chocked to death, as it would be less scandalous way to die.

I know the song was used in “Once upon a time in Hollywood”, but even before the movie, the song Twelve Thirty reminds me of that time period in American culture. It’s gives me a particular feeling.

Manson murders, Rosemary’s baby, Vietnam War - all the dark things that happened.

Wiped the peace and love mindset off the map

She seemed like a cool chick. Cass didn’t like singing Dream a Little Dream because she thought it was corny. But she made it sound amazing.

R47 - that was creepy. Harry "Legs" Nillson was wary of letting him stay there, but Pete Townshend dismissed him saying "lightning won't strike twice." His death was an OD, but AFAIK it's never been referred to as a suicide which it also was. He and his girlfriend argued that evening and when he retired to bed, he took an ungodly amount of a prescribed tranquilzer. It was several times over the amount necessary to kill.