Cass Elliot & The Lovin' Spoonfull - Didn't Want To Have To Do It, # 3

[@cafeconlechegrl]

It feels like a song that could come out today and be a hit! 🙆🏻‍♀️💕 🎧 🎶 🎵

[@quackadero]

Right?! I'd love Angel Olsen to cover this

[@louisgonzalez8846]

This is a timeless composition. Much like Moon River. When you perfected something......there is no time limit to it.!!!

[@catlamont499]

She could also sing the blues

[@GH-el9ch]

Bet she never would have thought people would still be listening to her 50 years later...she was a real person..the real deal

[@lonedrone]

Cass was special. She knew everybody. She loved bringing good people together. I suspect she wasn't really a happy person but somehow she was always in the centre of things. And I fell in love with her voice the first time I heard it.

[@juliawatson460]

I agree with you. She was wonderful . This is one of my funeral songs - though I intend to live for many more years. We have no say in that though .

[@jamiemartinwebb]

There's something about Cass Elliot's voice that is so hauntingly beautiful. Love her version of this song.

[@joeyconvery2055]

Mama Cass sounds like Madonna here. This is a great song.

[@sosavory2881]

Yes, it is haunting

[@mrspivvy]

I'm organising a time travel trip back to 1967 california. anyone interested?

[@tortugabob]

I found this after listening to the Loving Spoonful all afternoon. Wow....I'm blown away! Cass nailed it as good as anyone....maybe even John. Glad to have been a teenager in the 60s but still discovering truly phenomenal music from the period.

[@sosavory2881]

one of the most haunted and beautiful tunes i've ever heard. Thank you Mama C.

[@MrTappi66]

Absolutely

[@robertkoch618]

She was really great.

[@benbaronaa]

She was a band member with zal, john S Roger McGuinn, et al with the Mugwumps. I saw them open for the beach boy s in Annandale, Va in' 64. I had no clue I was witnessing history.

[@mrspivvy]

wow....impressive that you got to see them

[@fabiomino3506]

Very cool, I replayed this song about 54 times throughout the year when I was dealing with a bump in life. Always made me feel better and it was sad but happy, in a good way. I also "didn't want to have to do it" but I did! I got through it and it was the end...

[@robwwhit3453]

Painfully sweet, gotta love it!

[@MrsBeasley55]

it is so beautiful, it makes me cry

[@guitarman6742]

Me too...and I'm a guy.

[@TurdburgerXL]

Simply magical!

[@PBG345]

Thanks for posting this song. Mezmerizing song ! I wish they would play it a few times on the radio....I think it could be a hit some 45 years later ! The 60's had so much talent, the likes of which we haven't seen again !

[@samatoid]

If you have a good song and give Cass a big part in it - it becomes a great song.

[@DucaDiSantaCroce]

This is truly fantastic. I did not know about this recording - so grateful you posted this here and wonderful video. So poignant.

[@EduardoFrancoOcnarfeara]

Thank you very much

[@DucaDiSantaCroce]

Eduardo Franco Ocnarfeara Where did you find this recording? I am curious.

[@EduardoFrancoOcnarfeara]

DucaDiSantaCroce An mp3 album I found on amazon.com years agotitled Here's A Song (you might have missed) Various Artists - including two versions of this song.One of them I've posted on a video with the same title, actually the first video I have uploaded to youtube on my channel : kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoOkZI2lrK98g8U

[@Brembelia]

Thanks for posting this. Cass Eliot is another one of these artists who was truly exceptional but never got the credit she so richly deserved. This is fabulous! Thank you!

[@capemay8]

You hit the nail on the head.....miss her so much!!!!!!!!!! So talented and no one comes close to match her. Thanks for your post. Peace.

[@MrDLOC11]

I keep falling in love with Cass Elliot ...💞💞💔😿

[@zeekmx1970]

Her sense of dynamic range eats at me around the clock, I despise how she makes me love it.

[@stewartfraser2574]

Just beautiful💖

[@ohrofax]

she had a great voice passed away too soon

[@toddcanton9537]

Cass's voice never sounded better!

[@GROOVYJOJO]

Great music and groovy duds! 😎✌✌✌

[@mcinema2000]

J'aime beaucoup. C'est très romantique .

[@robertharty6547]

Beautiful song.thank you. Rob Harty

[@gessimarmachdodeoliveira3277]

Beautiful!!!

[@LeslieAnnLescarbeau]

i love momma cass and i miss her vere much i love her songs

[@mowear]

Thank you! This is such a great tune by John. Brilliant!

[@wolffstain]

I think Cass was beautiful. The title with background vocals means she is singing back up to her own lead. There is another version on youtube without the back up vocals.

[@guitarman6742]

I like that one the most.

[@yorkandpomona]

I love it........makes me feel like im in a dream...in a cloud.....and the song is sad..but i still love it

[@sixtiesrugger]

wow great tune

[@daniellemos7751]

Love this songs... Cass Elliot... ❤️

[@aguz2211]

Buenisimo!!me gusto mucho la combinacion de sonido, imagenes y colores..es exelente!van las cinco estrellas sin duda. Gracias por haberlo subido!

[@STRANGDAYS1751]

Everyone loved Cass Elliot I know she was a dear friend too John and Zal.

[@lacaverna1157]

Qué voz tan maravillosa la de Mama Cass.

[@guitarman6742]

Beautiful.

[@1223jamez]

I like version better than the Lovin’ Spoonful 100 times over and love their version a lot!

[@rjpg]

i never hrd this song.....why shud i bother hearing any other version? this is gr8

[@JuneLynn]

This is just so wonderful, a very rare version of the Lovin' Spoonful song by Cass....never been able to find it on a cd so come here often to hear it.....she really was unique and I still miss Cass to this day. 💜

[@peterdcarter1]

Great video, so good. Thanks

[@yorkandpomona]

i love this song so much

[@stacyblue1980]

Awww Jaysus! Too great! My gosh thank you for this. :)) Cass Forever.♥

[@catherinemoore9534]

❤️💝❤️

[@mankielty]

thank you

[@SEVFEST]

Excellent mix my friend Thank you very much for posting it I made an MP3 of it for myself and am playing it over & over again.... YOU ROCK.... RIP Cass Elliot

[@ajdoubleu4218]

Really feeling this song right now xx

[@coolsweetgroovy]

Wow awesome and so are picture of Cass Elliot

[@BoBo-ti6jh]

Brilliant

[@robertpayne8290]

The Mugwumps found little success during their short time together in 1964, and are best known for launching the careers of Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty (who went on to co-found the Mamas & the Papas) and John Sebastian and Zal Yanovsky (who co-founded the Lovin' Spoonful)

[@susanbrown6624]

GORGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@VaniaWarrior]

simply beautiful;) ameiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[@carrotjuse]

@spacepatrolman It was neither drugs nor a ham sandwich. The coroners report indicated that she died of a heart attack. No food was found in her esophagus. Her daughter has fought those rumors all her life. Thirty five years later they still persist.

[@jeffsemales3843]

It's been established many a time, she did have a Heart Attack, no sandwich did this to Cass Elliott !!!

[@devillehall6171]

The gutter press never changes....ham sandwicxh...mars bars ....sick

[@SuperWolsey]

And Keith Moon would live in the flat where she died only to die there himself four years later

[@mrb4886]

Obese and exhaustion. Not in shape. A shame.

[@torresongs2]

That pic of John Sebastian at 0:08 is dreamy! What a doll!

[@toddcanton9537]

well said.....

[@jaapklein1600]

Een traan,,,als rollend , pareltje,,,voor twee , o , zo lieve mensen....

[@JuneLynn]

LOVE THIS, never heard this version before, thanks so much for putting this together!!!

[@arfmooo]

wow, great video!

[@ytcarol]

@mrspivvy Oh, love it. Did some of my best hitchhiking up the coast in those years - Mendocino on up to Eugene Oregon. *sigh - youth*

[@guitarman6742]

I'm heading out this weekend.

[@eulaangelim5080]

Amo tanto essa amiga

[@ytcarol]

Love her beautiful voice. Look forward to meeting her and other musicians who have died before their time in heaven... that's what I plan to find there.

[@DavidCKendall]

Nice list...you had me at 'Heroes & Villians'

[@michaelautuori6912]

Yes You Did! Lindsay

[@blackmore4]

How fantastic is this?? Very :-) Where is it from? A Mugwump out-take or something?

[@pommelhorsepommelhorse8731]

eduardo you had impeccable taste

[@JonathanAllen0379]

Anybody know exactly where this was recorded? Obviously it's California, but John Sebastian asked Cass to cut it before she left to go to LA. Were they in the Bay Area, or somewhere in between? I'm just a dork and would like to know.

[@Beetlehair]

Where can the orginal '65 recording be found? Is it on a legit disc somewhere or a boot? Anyone? Thanks!

[@Marsbonfire007]

'Reflections of My Life' by Marmalade.

[@briandelanty4690]

Ellen Naomi Cohen left us FAR too early

[@carrotjuse]

@mrspivvy Count me in! I have no intention of coming back!

[@taddyd1]

Dear ocnarfeara, Is this a back-up vocal w/ the lead vocals cut out? Amazing how it sounds so good and complete that it could be the lead. What a pro! Cass sounded best when she just sang naturally (like this) without trying to sound legit. Thanks for sharing!!

[@LeslieAnnLescarbeau]

ss this is john

[@baliscotsurf]

The Grande Dame of RnR. Now who....Marianne Faithful?

[@Marsbonfire007]

'Come Sail Away' by Styx.

[@rainbowranddy]

Serendipity singer

[@rooftopcat1785]

At all??? But then...no , I, didnt want to be the one to say, ...the end... the end

[@toddcanton9537]

nor the harmonies.......