I've Got a Secret- Cass Elliot

From 1972.

[@Donde_Lieta]

15:30 Cass predicting the musical Hamilton

[@patrickryan1515]

Yes, I thought just that.

[@imsocuteimsorich4952]

Cass to me. Cass was the center of this show ,love you girl rest in peace amen,🌈✌🌸💖🌹👍☀😘💑😇👍✌

[@patrickryan1515]

Cass came across here as quite intelligent as well as articulate. She had class on many levels.

[@alanhandleman6513]

She came across as quite intelligent and articulate because, in fact, she WAS. She was a treasure, and her untimely death was a tragedy.

[@patrickryan1515]

@@alanhandleman6513 Are you attempting to chide me?

[@alanhandleman6513]

@@patrickryan1515 No, not at all. I didn't mean it that way. Not at all. I was merely pointing out (to anybody who might be reading these comments) that she truly WAS intelligent and articulate, and didn't just happen to appear that way in the moment. And, as you pointed out, she had class on many, many levels. Most people don't expect this sort of intelligence or eloquence from someone in the field of music. It happens, but it isn't expected. You and I both know that she was an exception to every rule.

[@patrickryan1515]

@@alanhandleman6513 Glad you didn't take offense. Too many trolls on KZbin unworthy of commenting on most topics; I become defensive at times. To this day I enjoy Cass Elliot's music and the light that shone around her, much as I do Judy Garland and Karen Carpenter (focusing on female artists here). Each of these ladies dealt with socially inflicted issues but when in the spotlight rose above it all to deliver what Heaven intended them to deliver. Too few good ones left. Helen Reddy was another very gifted performer who really delivered. Her passing was another blow to GOOD music. Have a nice evening.

[@alanhandleman6513]

Patrick, we're on the same page. I think. Cass Elliot will always be in the list of my favorite female singers. I've seen several interviews with her, and her intelligence is immediately obvious. Her eloquence is obvious. She never allowed interviewers to get stuck on topics of sensationalism or that cheapened who she was. She always kept the interviews on a high ground. Always. She was a queen. Other favorites of mine include: Janis Joplin, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (the godmother of rock and roll), Billie Holiday, Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa), and, of course, Linda Ronstadt. If you have not seen it, there is a wonderful video of Janis Joplin singing "Ball & Chain" (by Big Mama Thornton) at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. The camera pans the audience and focuses on Cass Elliot, who can be seen mesmerized by Janis' performance. At the end, you can see Cass saying "Wow, wow". Obviously, the two women had very different styles of singing, but it's clear that Cass was very moved by Janis' raw passion.

[@ajperkins288]

A great clip of Cass a beautiful person. Thank you.

[@james_hondo]

Cass sadly had a lot of issues, but she had to be one of the cutest and sweetest people who ever lived. And her IQ was 165! She’d be a superstar today.

[@aarondigby5054]

Cass was a superstar during her entire career, her death was sad, tragic and unexpected

[@phila3884]

The thing that stands out is- she would be a star in any era, any venue. The fact that she was a unique singing talent is just fate piling it on.

[@pedromarques7626]

Unfortunately, as clever as I believe Cass to have been, a 165 IQ is theoretically impossible, due to the scale going from 40 to 160. I'm a tested 152, so, not to sound arrogant but just to validate what I'm saying, this is one of the few things in life I know about.

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

@@pedromarques7626 Intelligence tests are not monolithic. Different tests have different ranges. In any case, if it were true that you have an IQ of 152, that would obviously have no logical bearing on whether a score of 165 is possible. It would demonstrate only that a score of 152 is possible.

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

If by a “superstar” you mean famous, that would depend on what field she went into and whether she was successful in that field. I’ve known very well a fair number of people with comparable intelligence who didn’t come anywhere near fame. One is now a math professor. Two are high-level computer programmers. One never really amounted to anything.

[@gregman1715]

Cass Love And Miss You ❤️💔

[@shawnagrubb9958]

I love Cass ❤️ as well. Beautiful inside and out. We miss you sweetheart

[@dennisdivine7448]

Wow--Cass Elliot and Henry Morgan together on the same TV show. When worlds collide!

[@born4thstime]

Hearing the dial go around brought back memories!

[@NIGHTOWL-jf9zt]

One of the great things the new generation will never experience.

[@shelly2599]

🦉 That is True even now this September 2021🎶🇱🇷 that's why we still have KZbin always nice music 🦉

[@womanofsubstance8735]

A few.

[@OsbornTramain]

I don't know if I'm just a sentimental old slob, but watching this simply brought a smile to my face.....I love everyone one of the panelists....RIP Pat Carrol who just past away.....I remember saying Hello and waving to Henry Morgan in 1970 as he was leaving the Ed Sullivan theater ( I was there to see a taping of "To tell the Truth". Steve Allen is so funny.....it's just humor in a silly way...nothing controversial. Just humor for the sake of humor.

[@annalee117]

So sad Mama Cass left so soon, loved her live out loud personality 😍🎵🎼🎶🙏

[@JeffBeaverTV]

That phone tech is so far out! One day we may have that in every home! Here's to the future!!!

[@hoozerob]

Cass was incredibly smart, musically gifted, driven and had full of more energy than her body could take. It's also something, that when she begins to sing, or even just conversate for that matter, the weight stigma is out the window. Like, "what do you mean she was overweight?" She never gave the vibe that she was anything, but Cass, who lived several lifetimes worth than most of the rest of us.

[@awake7586]

Omg her laugh is so cute, I love her so much

[@delvindoodles2182]

Cass specifically spoke on how the phone could help disabled people shows to me at least, her amazing soul.

[@annetierney42]

Wow! I never saw Cass on a game show & plugging a new device for good ole Ma Bell. Gee I miss those phones. They Never got lost. They remained right where they were permanently plugged into the wall.

[@mymanjosquin]

they were also rented but not purchases.

[@davidcoppotelli3957]

She was Beautiful inside and outside. Hope she is resting well.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Hahaha, ohhho that Pat Carol laugh is always my favorite! So wicked These folks are the best

[@ajdonjuan8956]

We love you cass Elliott

[@delvindoodles2182]

Richard Dawson's words on leaving messages is still true today.

[@markbuck9327]

A time when game shows were intelligent and fun!

[@holylandfan3275]

The fact that young boy's team did so well and no one cared, made me so sad. 😥

[@dannydougin3925]

Fret not, he got the last word .... and his paper reached almost 500,000 subscribers at one point and he received this TV exposure, more than a local paper would have brought him (them).

[@horowizard]

At 15:38 Cass Elliot says she's going to do a musical version of the Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton duel on stage live in Las Vegas. Fast forward to 2015 and we have the musical Hamilton!

[@annsilliman6184]

43 years later we have Hamilton. Pretty cool

[@allenjones3130]

Cass was another entertainer who tragically died too young. Pat Carroll (who died just a few days ago) is best remembered as the voice of Ursula in Disney's "The Little Mermaid".

[@KT-sq2ml]

@@allenjones3130 wow - I didn’t realize she did the voice for Ursula. Interesting!

[@angelwings7930]

And Hamilton was ruined.

[@pcallas66]

The kid was amazing too.

[@anairenemartinez165]

Wodering if he is Elon Musk...ok, it was not science...he is Murdock

[@margovallen]

Love Steve Allen.

[@annsilliman6184]

Because this was to be an episode with Cass Eliott , when Mrs Eliott came out at first , I thought she was her mom , lol.

[@petemavus2948]

I started to also. 🤣 Thought she was going to reveal some embarrassing secret about Cass's childhood or something. 🤣

[@errohaze2683]

14:03 is when Cass shows up!

[@billyshepard5514]

That little kid would be age 60 now

[@figmo397]

Did anyone else notice that the panelists were wearing different clothes with the first and the second guest?

[@annsilliman6184]

I didn't. Thanks for noticing

[@HugsBach]

Glad Bell Labs started this! Look how far we've come!

[@holylandfan3275]

Telephone communication abilities sure have come a long way. 💯

[@anairenemartinez165]

PRE ALEXA

[@judithhand4987]

Just got a note from Google Assistant this evening.

[@robertklose2140]

Yes, before the age of the cell phone there was no such thing as a "dropped call."

[@angelwings7930]

Yeah now they can give you cancer. And track you. Woo.

[@sylviasays2619]

Love Cas!! Gone too soon! We love you!!🌹🌹🌹🙏🏼

[@sureyeahwhynotamiright8226]

Crazy how technology develops... now all I have to do is say “Hey, Siri, call my brother” and that’s it. Also, Cass is so adorable ♥️♥️♥️

[@tjfSIM]

Sureyeah Whynotamiright Adorable is the word 🙂👍

[@elspethcoogan1499]

Sureyeah Whynotamiright Don’t forget Alexa 😉

[@callen8908]

Steve Allen was a favorite of mine. So clever!

[@bannedheretic2971]

What a loss! She died too young. She was smart and articulate.

[@vordman]

Yep, dead at 32. An obese, heroin-addict who smoked 40 cigarettes a day. Who'd have thought it.

[@williamkane7036]

They are all gone but Anita!

[@delvindoodles2182]

I like Joey, seemed like a great kid. It is always funny realizing that everyone is the same, no matter the timeline. Hope he did well with life.

[@safepethaven]

Turns out Cass had several secrets over the years, but who cares - - she had an incredible voice!

[@dannydougin3925]

As we *all* do.... did I stress *ALL* enough?

[@slobodantatomir6487]

Kakve tajne?stvarno nek mi neko objasni...skoro sam otkrila njene lepe pesme i od tad ih slušam a veoma mi je žso tako mladog života koji nas je prerano nspustio. Inače ne znam engleski pa nisam baš upućena u sve pa bih baš volela da znam o kakvim tajnama se radi

[@meowkitty5588]

Airdate: February 12, 1973

[@Ursdemars]

What a talentuous woman 🤩👍🏻

[@TooLameToDie]

"Can you show me your elbow?" 😆

[@EmilyTienne]

Great seeing Cass. Would have been better hearing her sing!

[@bobbystgeorge]

Yes, indeed! Now I have to go listen to an entire album by her lol

[@safepethaven]

Bell Labs still experimental in 1972? Illinois Bell in my very small rural childhood town had touch-tone dial public phones as part of their experimental systems and features such as the local movie theater in the mid 1960s, and had direct dial without the need for operators in the late 1950s. Upon moving away to university, had the misfortune twice to live in college towns with only GTE for service, and even worse misfortune to buy my current home 43 years ago that was also GTE only, a misrepresentation by the realtor. GTE and their successors have been the worst utility ever. Three drops of rain and lines would get cross linked and then become "party lines" except I could not get a connection until the other 2 parties, also suburbs on GTE, hung up and I could hear both of them but they could not hear me. This went on until the eaarly 1990s. Then things got even worse. I rememnber being rather spoiled while living in rural Ilinois those years when utilities were buried underground so were safe from extreme weather, storms, downed lines and poles, etc.

[@agent3857]

Small town in Illinois, also. GTE.

[@safepethaven]

@@agent3857 You have my condolences; in IL the horror on campus and near was ISU; once in TX it was K'ville, then CC was Bell as were other S.TX towns; near DFW was GTE again. And zero choice in the matters.

[@meowkitty5588]

Taped at NBC Studios in Burbank CA

[@djmixnmagic]

Oh my gosh! Ursula!

[@ratt57]

Wow, 1972. Amazing how incredibly crude this phone dialing machine is compared to our cell phones!

[@Elizabeth-rq1vi]

They very rarely dropped calls so that makes them less crude…

[@angelwings7930]

@@Elizabeth-rq1vi. And they weren’t health risks. 👍

[@angelwings7930]

Yeah now phones are so high tech you’re tracked 24-7 and they can also give you cancer. 👍

[@petemavus2948]

​@@angelwings7930Or excuses for rudeness and distractions.

[@amywalker7515]

That telephone dialer seems so incredibly archaic compared to what we have today.

[@womanofsubstance8735]

Just a little bit. Haha

[@hot88s23]

Any show is better with Steve Allen.

[@davemattia]

How did men not crash on the moon in 1969 when this cockamamie telephone - so primitive and silly - was cutting edge technology nearly 4 years later.?

[@imkluu]

I am more surprised by Dawson having an answering machine before 1974. They didn't become really commercially affordable and available until the mid 1980's.

[@dvinedzine]

Jim Rockford had one in '74. :)

[@donnahdunthorn5207]

@@dvinedzine He sure did! We heard it every week in the intro.

[@lindaf4836]

Dawson had a vcr earlier too. He and bob crane really enjoyed it.

[@tjmoore8281]

So did Cass Predict Hamilton The Musical? 😱

[@jeanesingsjazz]

Looks like she gave somebody a money making idea.

[@annsilliman6184]

I think we should give credit where it's due. Thanks Cass.

[@angelwings7930]

And it was ruined.

[@deepdrag8131]

Imagine! Doing a musical about Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. That Cass Eliot was a hoot! How did she think of a crazy idea like that???

[@NIGHTOWL-jf9zt]

I wonder who inherited Richard Dawson's Number after he died, and if they know it?

[@travisjames3517]

Thank you for posting this!!!!!

[@laurathornton1456]

Hysterical that she started talking about Hamilton! Was Cass psychic?

[@steveguzman6141]

Yup I think she was

[@fernfreeman1729]

An IQ of 165 helps.

[@kelloggs5473]

“Motor infirmities” - Ms. Elliot uses these words. Rarely do you hear anyone on an early 1970s game show use the phrase. This is a fun game show, not a talk show. Goodson-Todman Productions has created it. Their products are all examples of light entertainment, not anything erudite.

[@blofeld39]

Bill Cullen, host and panelist on many game shows, himself had motor infirmities, although he didn't really advertise himself as having such...

[@ParkerAllen2]

Now we've got more sophisticated technology but less sophisticated people. I'm not sure it was a good trade-off.

[@callen8908]

Well put!

[@petemavus2948]

Agree totally, non stop 'communication' about nothing.

[@interstategar]

Alexa's great grandfather, the box

[@Scottwilkie18]

R i p

[@miketype1each]

Cass had that certain something that endeared her to me. I thought she was lovely. What's wild is that this episode was broadcast some 50 years ago. In 1972, I was 10. Push-button dialing was a thing in those days, so it's notable that the voice system used an analog of rotary dialing. It seems the system was "doing the dialing" whereby it synched the dialing with the lighting of the numbers. Was it necessary to actually say the number, or could it be that any utterance would have indicated to the system that the number had been selected? There are issues with this setup, most notably coordination between one's eyes and mouth. Also, it required that a person be sighted; a blind person couldn't have used the device. I can imagine ordering a pizza with the thing, but heaven help the person who needs an ambulance.

[@calliopivogiatzis2235]

The bell telephone invention is like a prototype for "alexa"

[@ruudkist8951]

This telephone is far ahead of his time. Grandpa "SIRI" Iphone

[@rickyrydell]

A half-century ago!

[@JonathanAllen0379]

Could you imagine being disabled and trying to use that stupid contraption in the event of an emergency? Great idea, very poor execution. Love seeing Cass Elliot (Ellen Naomi Cohen) though, especially something I haven't seen of her before.❤️

[@gwenniegirl50]

@John Allen for the times this was high tech. Certainly better than nothing. This is before 911 so usually the O for operator was dialed and any emergency information (location) was related .

[@Ronjohn73]

@@gwenniegirl50 And remember, it was experimental.

[@christineframe6533]

Class Eleliet handle it very well

[@larry1824]

Naomi Cohen

[@mitchweiner]

I expected her to say she invented the technology

[@reversefulfillment9189]

Richard Dawson my man!

[@kt1pl2]

Well that's Iowa for you.

[@shmujew4791]

WHEN PEOPLE WERE HUMAN

[@danflisser5171]

if Fred Flintstone and Lurch Addams had developed hands-free .... this would have been the result.

[@petemavus2948]

No instead of "Thing" we have Alexa.

[@olliebeak131]

I thought Mrs Elliott's secret was going to be her daughter is Cass Elliott...

[@ryfojuan7114]

what year is this?!?

[@spectrum10]

No cordless phones then?

[@zeekmx1970]

It starts to dawn on me that she was the female version of Shawn Lane.

[@tomcarpenter700]

Good thing It wasn't an emergency,, And after she said dial,, It sounds like it was machine gunning her,,, lol,, We had those dial phones when I was a kid,,, We didn't have one of those Fancy speaking Box type,,,

[@mvitulano]

But what was Cass's secret? Did I miss something? What was her connection to the contraption?

[@anairenemartinez165]

She introduced to the public in this show. Evidently it never took off but probably the cellular phone started somewhere near that.

[@billyshepard5514]

All have passed except Anita Gillette :-(

[@sheepkillindog]

You can hear a pin drop when she’s saying the numbers. Was Cass friends with they might be giants??? Lol

[@jacklow9611]

This idea must not have been continued, since this product is not available in over 50 years since this episode, which is kind of sad. With all the advances in technology since then, it would be much faster and easier to use.

[@CounterCultureWISE]

3:23 ...which all were cast for Biden,,,

[@geoffreyfox9801]

Who dyed Steve Allen's hair? It is scary!!! Steve Allen was very talented but hairstyling wasn't one of his talents.

[@womanofsubstance8735]

This show was 50ish years ago. Styles have changed.

[@anairenemartinez165]

The kid hair looked very weird.

[@marisafernandez3397]

I thought the same! Too much dye!

[@lindaf4836]

I was thinking that he reminded me of the also late great ROY ORBISON. The side burns and too dark helmet hair.

[@angelwings7930]

The host of this show was so disturbed by the increasing filth and lack of morals on TV (even back in the day) he used his own money and influence to try to fight it. I’d have to look it up now I’ve forgot most of the details. But what a great guy for caring and trying to do something about it.

[@robertklose2140]

My God, those cheesy sets!

[@angelwings7930]

My God ! People like you who don’t comprehend that eras all had different styles and at their time were considered stylish !!!! 🤡

[@stumack9755]

ripoff of - whats my line?

[@xmaseveeve5259]

YES, HE HAS SEVERAL SECRETS.

[@nedludd7622]

This sounds like Republican redistricting today.

[@anairenemartinez165]

81 million hogs voted for Brandon

[@maggiesace389]

@@anairenemartinez165 Brandon stole election from PmurT and so Brandon doesn't belong in WH.

[@dannydougin3925]

Yuck.... Richard Dawson! Thank goodness for the fast forward button!

[@billyshepard5514]

I like to eat

[@MarkStevens8899]

You like to be unfunny

[@lindaf4836]

Is that a crack at MAMA CASSEROLE,?

[@suzannablakely4934]

Mostly awful