The Mama Cass Television Program (Full Show 1969)

[@cindy-qq2ls]

The old commercials are as good as the show now. Love all of these performers.

[@1st1anarkissed]

That trio is so historic. What a powerhouse of women vocalists! I think only Ms Mitchell remains with us. She went into painting and is just as talented.

[@christiorca4432]

Moma Cass has such a great voice. She is loved!!!!

[@TheShamescoStillLovesYa]

This was super groovy.

[@mauricebederon869]

I was never a hippie, but Mama Cass was a very nice woman with a wonderful voice. I feel sad when I think about the situation in the USA today. The country really deserves good politicians and not people who use patriotism and religion to make people aggressive. I hope the future will get better again at some point. I hope a new generation will end this current atmosphere of hate.

[@PuntaPacifica507]

You created this mess. Now you yearn for good times

[@dace938]

70 now. Reliving 1969 Thnks

[@CGCCda]

She was a versatile singer who left us far too soon.

[@johnwieczorek]

In 1969, I had a crush on Cass. I had just turned 19 when this show aired." I can dream, can't I" My favorite.

[@shellyyeich7998]

Love💐Cass… She looks "fabulous" in her purple ensemble! 💜💜💜

[@caroletomlinson5480]

I loved her voice and it ended way too early💔

[@garrywood5345]

Can't believe she's been gone FIFTY years ago.

[@fhb3]

😭💔

[@TheTruthResearchers]

Thank You!Wonderful Nostalgic Memories come to Life for us Baby Boomers! 1969 was a ONE of a KIND Year that became AN ERA never to be repeated.... never to be forgotten❤

[@fhb3]

She left us a year before I was born, but I still swoon over her. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@hiridavidfeign]

Wow. Ladies of the canyon. What a treasure of talent.

[@Buggy1001-q8k]

Cass was truly larger than life with that voice of her.😊😊❤❤

[@shyman99]

The uncredited backup singers for Mama Cass is the amazing group Honey Cone. Just a little over a year from hitting the big time.

[@kcindc5539]

@@shyman99 they had a hit with “Want Ads” IIRC. I thought they sounded familiar!

[@shyman99]

@@kcindc5539 - Correct. They also had other hits like the million-selling "Stick Up", or top 40 singles like "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show" and "The Day I Found Myself". I loved them when I was a kid.

[@kcindc5539]

@ oh yeah, thanks for reminding me!! Loved them. I was (and still am) a 60’s and 70’s AM junkie. The first two songs I committed to memory when I first heard them on the radio (around 1970 and 1971) were Band of Gold by the queen Freda Payne, and Brother Louie by Stories which for decades I firmly believed was a black R&B group.

[@shyman99]

@@kcindc5539 - "Brother Louie" by the Stories came to us in 1973. I bought that record the first time I heard it. Hard to believe it only reached #22 on the soul chart.

[@kcindc5539]

@@shyman99 sounds about right. The first time you heard it, did you know they were a white group?

[@BellaFirenze]

She was a treasure. May her memory be a blessing.

[@Wendeajo]

WHY WASN'T THIS PICKED UP?!?!? IT'S MARVELOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kalinthomas6675]

I loved Mama Cass. I thought she had soul, from the way she moved to the music with The Mamas & The Papas. It wasn't until I was an adult that I found out she was from my hometown of Baltimore.

[@kmac1766]

Mama Cass could belt out a standard like no other!!!

[@MrRacket991]

That opening outfit sold plenty of color TVs.

[@greeleyman]

Didn't see this originally back in the days of one TV set and 3 network channels- thanks for posting!

[@byromania]

That's actor Clifton Davis at 24:11. He is now starring in a new daytime soap on CBS at 79 years old.

[@zecazevedo]

Amazing singer and performer. She left us too soon.

[@lazlomattachine8334]

What a talented lady- long live Cass Elliot.

[@tyronewilliams8344]

I totally dig the Mamas And The Papas medley (45:04). She gave those songs a little touch of soul.

[@garrywood5345]

Shown June 1969, just a few days after the sad passing of Judy Garland and Robert Taylor.

[@anthonykimball7463]

Taped in December, 1968 and broadcast on ABC-TV Thursday, June 26th, 1969.

[@FarronWebster]

Thank you!!!

[@Wendeajo]

Oh my, they taped it on my 21st birthday, practically!!

[@garrywood5345]

Just a few days after the sad passing of Judy Garland at 47.

[@orbyfan]

That's around the time "She's a Lady" was released as a single, John's first after leaving the Lovin' Spoonful.

[@dadyarusski4594]

I love it❤ What an all star cast…I mean what amazing friends❤❤❤

[@TyroneEpps]

R.i.p..cass peace& ❤😢🎉

[@terr777]

So glad Owen has this.

[@suegorecki9868]

Absolutely LOVE this!

[@kcindc5539]

No auto-tune, no twerking, no cheap overt degradation, no desperate use of vulgarity….. just talent and experience on display as it should be.

[@lonestarbug]

The right culture.

[@kcindc5539]

@ absolutely

[@somatl420]

Only lsd25

[@kcindc5539]

@@somatl420 maybe a little

[@lonestarbug]

@@somatl420 Shazam.

[@KiviK-d7w]

With love from the 1960's Finland Mama Cass 🇫🇮🙏🙏🙏🙂❤️

[@Dietmar-i7x]

Wirklich eine tolle Show mit der einzigartigen Gastgeberin, Cass Elliott und den großartigen Gästen, Joni Mitchell, Mary Travers, John Sebastian und den vielen anderen! Danke fürs Teilen! 👍🤓👍

[@robitaillefan20]

A voice like no other❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Wendeajo]

I love that all those who sang 'Mieskeit' were Jewish!!!

[@Landrew1980]

Thank you so much. I never knew this existed.

SLEEP WELL MAMA CASS AND SWEET DREAMS . . .

[@Ozworldz]

Mary Travers When I Die is so good.

[@ginamilite1256]

Such great voices they ahould have done concerts together or an album

[@nocount1]

Love the duet with Hacket in the beginning.

[@zorrpop]

A real gem and Joni Mitchell performing her song “ Both Sides Now “

[@TundieRice]

What a shame such a wonderful performer was forced to mime/lip sync her performance though. Notice how she wasn’t mic’d up and she kept strumming after the song had already ended. It’s not her fault at all, I just wish she would’ve been able to *actually* perform her beautiful music live on the program.

[@anthonysummerfield3702]

What a fantastic guess line-up, love it.

[@jonathanhorne6503]

The great Jim Gordon on drums during the Momma Papas medley.

[@HaavMercee]

Gunne Saxx was a designer brand I loved..the white dress reminds me of those

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

If i win the lottery my house will look exactly like a late 60s/early 70s tv set.

[@2005dave]

If you read the books that Chuck Barris wrote over the years, at least one of them has a little more, um, intimate detail about the relationship that Chuck and Mama Cass had.

[@guille_mellaman]

de verdad gracias por este increíble tesoro audiovisual que acabo de ver, que ganas de seguir viendo mas de Cass Elliot

[@barrylangford3276]

Is that a young Bernadette Peters in the Playtex commercial?

[@gwenniegirl50]

Yes indeed

[@kirklarson1316]

I shudder to think of her hosting 'the view'

[@michelynm1507]

Jadorrrre cette personne que j'ai appris à connaître, longtemps après sa disparition Merci aux youtubeurs ainsi qu'à KZbin . Ici c'est une superbe vidéo. Dommage qu'elle soit si peu connu en France 😢😢😢 👍👍👍👍

[@screenplayhouse4932]

Isn't it kind of disturbing that all of the ads are for various aerosol products? Was their an aerosol lobby in DC?

[@gruntherblendin388]

Brought to you by Big CFC

[@Penniesmusicandfood]

Epic.

[@hughlaverton8748]

By some strange coincidence I met an artist called Tom Shakespeare at the Arts lab in London in 1969 and he introduced me to Cass Elliott and Ken Kesey. Needless to say we got high together...

[@ginamilite1256]

Peter paul mary yes pete just passed away rip so sad

[@michaelmcgee8543]

Enjoyed!

[@orsino88]

Gosh, Bernadette Peters in a bra commercial at 25:40-priceless and hilarious.

[@radic888]

Yep. Her appearance oughta be mentioned in the title of this video.

[@stevebouras641]

Cass n Mary Travers gone Joni Mitchell around 80😮

[@Centervillejim]

I loved the music segments. I even loved the Honeycone and the video graphics. But I hated the skits that Martin Landau and Barbara Bain were in. They added nothing to the show. However, I was pleasantly surprised at the great rapport between Cass and Buddy Hackett. The sketches they were in were sweet, especially the hospital sketch.

[@Dimi374]

I had a huge crush on Martin Landau

[@leehayton]

Was that the couple from Space 1999 ? @ 29:30 mark

[@Stratmanable]

Before they were the couple from Space: 1999, they were the couple from Mission: Impossible, which was a big deal in 1969.

[@leehayton]

Ah...thanks ​@@Stratmanable

[@gruntherblendin388]

A bit of trivia: Barbara Bain played Rob Petrie's hometown girlfriend with whom he had to break up in order to marry Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) in The Dick Van Dyke Show.

[@infinitygasmask]

Jim Gordon drums

[@tinydancer62]

Have you read his recent biography?

[@colmcollins7993]

​@@tinydancer62 The Joel Selvin? How is it?

[@tracedehaven2190]

I recognized Jim Gordon. Can anyone ID the other musicians? Particularly the bass player.

[@JOHNWLOUCKS]

@@tracedehaven2190 I have been wondering that also. I do see on the Telecaster the great James Burton. On bass in the studio it would have been Joe Osborn on the Mand P songs but I don't think that's him. Not sure about the other cats.

[@mlongpre100]

7:55 they could be brother and sister !

[@stevebouras641]

Hippies man let's get stoned Cass had a nice voice ❤

[@jamessullivan1714]

I know this became a special but it sure looks like a pilot for a tv series. Too much work put into it thinking it was just for a special. She was so talented and died way too soon.

[@terrybrown4400]

Only Michelle Phillips left now

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

13:30 Joni Mitchell.

[@Kevin-yh9yt]

Im guessing the network insisted she include guests like Buddy Hackett to bring in more middle-brow viewers. He certainly seems out of place with her more 'hip' guests like Joni Mitchell, John Sebastian and Mary Travers. She was a treasure to be sure.

[@joebudi5136]

Adele before adele

[@mariamosquera8962]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Starlababy]

Who is the brown haired man she did a duet with?

[@PooPooPanties856]

Buddy Hackett

[@duygukayhanisaskank4915]

That "brown haired man" is the GREAT John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful. A VERY POPULAR & influential group of the '60s. KZbin Link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3-Vd6x3pLhnjdk Best regards from Yucatan Mexico, Ben

[@jefpepitone3574]

le niveau si haut

[@shmujew4791]

Aerosol was great

[@joebudi5136]

What tv network was this showed on?

[@micmac99]

Someone else said ABC

[@patbou70]

You clearly see the ABC logo at some point.

[@RJS1974]

Was this a hit show?

[@teresapflaumer5717]

Failed variety show tv pilot on abc

[@obscureshowtunes]

Which is why it was called a "program" and not a special.

[@patbou70]

Shame that sound and image get out of synch for the last part. Was pleasantly suprised by the chimestry between Hackett and Cass, standout number was the girls trio doing I shall be released, digged that Mamma was singing along during Joni's song. This said, the show belonged to its era , and besides a few highlites has not aged that well.

[@CharlieChilders-wm9gb]

This TV special was not what I was expecting to see. This show was not worthy of this talented wonderful singer. She hardly had any time to sing with all of the boring guests taking up practically all of the time. However, she finally did get to sing one very beautiful song all alone 'I Can Dream, Can't I". Why wasn't she allowed to do more? She appears to be only another guest and not starring in her own TV special!

[@colmcollins7993]

Well, there's no pleasing everyone.

[@musicom67]

It was a Chuck Barris Production, so... there's that.

[@sdne1959]

. WOW.........don't know that I EVER remember seeing such an assemblage of female singing talent in one place, in Prime Time back then (and had NO idea that Mary Travers was "allowed" to sing without the 'guys' !! 😀) !! Could have done without the singing "talent" of the MONUMENTALLY UNfunny Buddy Hackett, though..... 🙁 .

[@warrenpeece1726]

Hamfat?

[@alphabeets]

What, you’ve never heard of Hamfat? 🤪

[@scumbagmournblademumford2649]

Burger

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

Where was Hamfat?

[@GordonCaledonia]

They had to trim the Fat.

[@TheTheoTherone]

This isn't real. My mom told me .

[@mountainmamanirvana31]

The heart ❤ joke really didn't age well

[@logrun9]

Buddy Hackett? Really?

[@Bthe312]

Why is there a guy called Ham-Fat? Kinda gross, like the B. O. products advertised.

[@orbyfan]

As Sports Illustrated said in an article on the end of the Pro Bowlers Association on television, when your sponsors include treatments for foot fungus, you're in trouble.

[@joaquinantonioruizhurtado1601]

Zzzzzz ... zzzzz ...